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jujigatame wrote:There are a lot of interesting fights in the HW division if promoters just had the balls to make them. I would really like to see more guys putting their 0s on the line in fights like this:

Fury vs. Glazkov
Ruiz vs. Teper
Joshua vs. Browne

But sadly promoters are always afraid to make fights like this.

I'd also like to see Povetkin/Pulev in a sort of "Klitchko consolation" fight.

We just had a year where heavyweight promoters went apesh*t on making great fights. We had Wlad - Pulev, Povetkin - Takam, Povetkin - Charr, Fury - Chisora, Stiverne - Arreola, Glazkov - Adamek, Szpilka - Adamek, Jennings - Szpilka, Jennings - Perez, Thompson - Solis, Thompson - Takam, Cunningham - Mansour, and Takam - Perez. There are only a few contenders who did not do anything really special this year, like Teper, Ruiz, Hammer, Browne, and Wilder; but on the whole, the division served-up an amazing year of contender-on-contender action.

Also, I think it's probably better in many cases when you don't match-up two undefeated contenders. The reason I say that is when you have a match-up like Andy Ruiz Jr. vs Erkan Teper, they're both unknowns, and after the fight, they're basically still both unknowns, because you have no idea how good the guy he just beat / lost to was. I would prefer that the unproven undefeateds fight an equally matched and far more proven opponent like Mike Perez and Steve Cunningham, so that we know exactly how good the unproven fighter is by fight's end.

It's becoming slightly more exciting but it's still not a great standard outside of the champ in my opinion.

Riddick Blowe wrote:The division stinks. It's ok to admit it and not try and pretend otherwise just to be contrary.

The division doesn't stink. It's ok to admit it, you can still talk about the 70's so people know how much of a historian you are.

Now in truth, the division obviously isn't great (as is the norm for Heavyweight). But it's at the lower end of good right now with big potential in the future.

punchoutsb wrote:

Riddick Blowe wrote:The division stinks. It's ok to admit it and not try and pretend otherwise just to be contrary.

The division doesn't stink. It's ok to admit it, you can still talk about the 70's so people know how much of a historian you are.

Now in truth, the division obviously isn't great (as is the norm for Heavyweight). But it's at the lower end of good right now with big potential in the future.

God the voice of reason
Any of us that lived through the 70's will always hold it in our hearts as the greatest era.
But enjoy what we have.And this same sentiment rings true with all weight classes.If all
you can do is bash the current product why bother watching it?