Heavyweight division heats up!

[HomicideHenry]

IMHO the division today is stronger than it was during the era of Lennox Lewis. Let's be honest about it.

Chris Byrd, John Ruiz, a completely shot Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, and blown up lighter weight fighters Roy Jones and James Toney were at the top of the hilt. Fringe contenders like Hasim Rahman and Oleg Maskaev became champions for crying out loud. Lennox Lewis could have reigned for a few more years. There was nothing out there.

The passed ten years? We had a dominate champion. Depending on what belts you accept as being legit, Klitschko made between 18-23 title defenses. We had a rather good mixed bag of contenders. Tomasz Adamek, Eddie Chambers, David Haye, rounding out the best of the little men. The fact of business is, the last three years especially have been heating up. Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury have ultimately become the champions (as Emmanuel Stewart predicted) and we have alot of legit guys coming up like Parker and Joshua. We have alot of tough journeymen. I think it will certainly be a far more entertaining and competitive era, unlike the blow outs and snooze fests of the Lewis era.

[Horse]

Glazkov

Drew with Scott.

Teper

I had him losing against Duhaupas.

Duhaupas, Scott & Szpilka would have a good chance of beating quite a few of those fighters that you've listed.

[PredatorHayds]

Pretty sure I saw Malik Scott at the Joshua-Whyte presser and weigh in.
He got vocal against Joshua at the presser.

Looks like Joshua will have either Scott or Chisora next if he wins tomorrow.

[Rexob]

Pretty sure I saw Malik Scott at the Joshua-Whyte presser and weigh in.
He got vocal against Joshua at the presser.

Looks like Joshua will have either Scott or Chisora next if he wins tomorrow.

Both probably, with Whyte, he should get a competitive 3 rounds in!

[PredatorHayds]

Pretty sure I saw Malik Scott at the Joshua-Whyte presser and weigh in.
He got vocal against Joshua at the presser.

Looks like Joshua will have either Scott or Chisora next if he wins tomorrow.

Both probably, with Whyte, he should get a competitive 3 rounds in!

I think Whyte has the potential to be a good British/European level operator but Joshua is going to be a couple of levels above.
I fancy a spiteful Joshua to do him in 2

[sweetviolenturge]

IMHO the division today is stronger than it was during the era of Lennox Lewis. Let's be honest about it.

Chris Byrd, John Ruiz, a completely shot Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, and blown up lighter weight fighters Roy Jones and James Toney were at the top of the hilt. Fringe contenders like Hasim Rahman and Oleg Maskaev became champions for crying out loud. Lennox Lewis could have reigned for a few more years. There was nothing out there.

The passed ten years? We had a dominate champion. Depending on what belts you accept as being legit, Klitschko made between 18-23 title defenses. We had a rather good mixed bag of contenders. Tomasz Adamek, Eddie Chambers, David Haye, rounding out the best of the little men. The fact of business is, the last three years especially have been heating up. Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury have ultimately become the champions (as Emmanuel Stewart predicted) and we have alot of legit guys coming up like Parker and Joshua. We have alot of tough journeymen. I think it will certainly be a far more entertaining and competitive era, unlike the blow outs and snooze fests of the Lewis era.

While I'm fairly certain that there are plenty here that would disagree with you regarding the level of heavies today, I can see your point.
Like I said in my initial post here, at least we're going to see some decent, meaningful match ups over the next several weeks beginning with tomorrow night's Arreola-Kauffman scrap. Which, while it's highly unlikely to produce a top ten contender since Arreola is used up, damaged goods now & Kauffman has spent the entirety of his career fighting suspect opposition in rural PA, will at least set the victor up somewhere in the lower echelon of the top 20 & basically eliminate the loser to permanent clubfighter status.
Speaking of tomorrow night, I'm still rather pissed about the Martin-Breazeale bout being scrapped. I was really looking forward to it. I've been following both of their careers for a while now & was eager to finally get a look at Martin. But, now I'm going to have to wait for his 'BF title fight vs Glazkov to. Which will hopefully be put together quickly.