Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
Well right now the WBA is like the JUNIOR CIRCUIT those guys fighting for the WBA strap are avoiding the best fighters out there plain and simple.

The heavyweight division is fine but there is a talent gap much like when Mike Tyson and Larry Holmes were in their primes. We have the Klitschko brothers who are hands down the best in the division and then we have a gap then we have the youngsters and the old veterans. The old guys like Rahman, Holyfield, Ruiz, Golota, Brewster etc have all the knowledge of how to win big fights (well maybe not Golota) but their skills are diminishing and the youngsters have great skill but no experience.....Wlad and Vitali have skill and experience and unless the younger fighters fight each other to build experience and then use that experience in their big title shots then we're going to continue to see onesided fights with Wlad and Vitali winning easily.

David Haye should be fighting a tune up vs a REAL heavyweight and not have jumped from cruiser to Monte Barrett to title shot....it's fucking ridiculous to think he's ready when Haye has NEVER fought someone with the size, skill, and power of Wladimir.

Vitali wants Nicolay Valuev and in all honesty that would be a GREAT fight for boxing....Valuev sucks but he can be spun into some great giant like Michael Grant was and when Vitali smashes him within 2 rounds we will have a big spectacular KO win in the heavyweight division and people love that shit.
Heavyweight more then any other division,becomes a race for second place. Usually there's one or two guys everyone knows is the best in the division. In this era thats the Klitschko's.
Before that it was Lewis,before that it was Holyfield,before that it was Tyson(with Bowe briefly muddying the waters) before that it was Holmes.
The 70's (the era everyone is pining for) was like the wild wild west. You werent 100% sure who was the best,most of those guys if you cloned them and had them fight now would have a belt at some point.
If Ruiz can keep getting a belt put in his Christmas Stocking by Santa,think how Lyle,Shavers,Bugner,Quarry,Ellis,and Norton would have done