Why the heavyweight boxing scene is on life support?

[El Kabong]

There's no "big 3" its #1 Wlad and #2 Vitali and everyone else is a chump.....FACT

[greynotsoold]

Heavies have always been short on skill; a 'great' heavy typically exhibits moves that are nothing special among the lighter weights. I think this becomes more pronounced as heavyweights get bigger.

[brocktonblockbust]

it's not on life support. don't you know foreman is making a comeback in June?

[badr_hari]

There are no "BIG 3". There are 2 great heavies (the brothers), 3-4 good heavies (Povetkin, Haye, Adamek, Chambers) and some really good prospects like Boytsov and Glazkov. What is making the division look crap, is the lack of good match ups (great and good heavies don't want to fight each other). Still though Heavyweights are better than cruiserweights

[TitoFan]

it's not on life support. don't you know foreman is making a comeback in June?

Yes... he's fighting someone by the name of Larry Holmes.

[Spicoli]

Heavyweights are overrated.

[:::PSL:::]

HW boxing is on life support because the K brothers are... well, they are brothers. They can't fight each other. Plus they're not Americans.

[holmcall]

Heavies have always been short on skill; a 'great' heavy typically exhibits moves that are nothing special among the lighter weights. I think this becomes more pronounced as heavyweights get bigger.

But not during the Golden Age of the '70's!

[Master]

USA needs a bout of depression that forces them to get out of other crap sports and have hunger in their bellies to feed their kids and family. Here's to a stock market crash tomorrow.

[levi#1BoxingFan]

Its been dead since the late 90's IMO.

[holmcall]

USA needs a bout of depression that forces them to get out of other crap sports and have hunger in their bellies to feed their kids and family. Here's to a stock market crash tomorrow.

Please, not that way!!

[Taeth]

I don't see it as dead at all, I think the Klitschko's would dominated any era without Lennox Lewis in it. They are way too big and athletic for the 80's or 70's. I think there are good guys out there, maybe on average not as high as some points in history, but they are way better than when Holmes reigned.

[rjj tszyu]

I don't see it as dead at all, I think the Klitschko's would dominated any era without Lennox Lewis in it. They are way too big and athletic for the 80's or 70's. I think there are good guys out there, maybe on average not as high as some points in history, but they are way better than when Holmes reigned.

Not a fucking chance. They would have been massacred by the top men of the 70's and the likes of Tyson, Evander, Bowe and Lewis would have smashed both Klits all day long. Like Lennox said, at my worst I beat Vitali at his best. Say no more. And as for the 70's crop, as David Haye said on Ringside the other week "I'd like to think I could live with that era, but they were just too hard and boxers today are just softer".

Lamon Brewster, Ross Purrity and Corrie Sanders?? Are all them to big and athletic for the men of the 70's too??

[holmcall]

I don't see it as dead at all, I think the Klitschko's would dominated any era without Lennox Lewis in it. They are way too big and athletic for the 80's or 70's. I think there are good guys out there, maybe on average not as high as some points in history, but they are way better than when Holmes reigned.

Who are they? Other than Haye, I can't find any.

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Heavies have always been short on skill; a 'great' heavy typically exhibits moves that are nothing special among the lighter weights. I think this becomes more pronounced as heavyweights get bigger.

But not during the Golden Age of the '70's!

Or the other unoffical golden age of the 90s.