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Today cruiserweight became very interesting and competitive, with many interesting and undefeated fighters.

Dmirty Kudryasov, 18-0-0, 18 KO, very powerful fighter which destroy his opponents.

Oleksandr Usyk, 7-0-0, 7 KO, former world and Olympic champion as amateur, as a pro he showed excellent skills and boxing IQ.

Yunier Dorticos, 18-0-0, 17 KO, representative of Cuban boxing school, ranked in top 15 by WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO.

Krzysztof Glowacki, 24-0-0, 15 KO, mandatory challenger for WBO world title.

William Fernando Souza Bezerra, 40-0-0, 39 KO, 38 of his 40 fights was in Brazil, level of his opposition is relatively low.

Noel Gevor, 17-0-0, 10 KO, ranked in top 15 by WBA and WBO

Murat Gassiev, 21-0-0, 15 KO, ranked in top 15 by WBC and IBF, very young fighter, trained by Abel Sanchez.

Micki Nielsen, 17-0-0, 12 KO, rated #11 by IBF and #19 be WBC, set for first defense of his WBC international title against Junior Anthony Wright, 13-0-1, 11 KO

Damir Beljo, 20-0-0, 17 KO, in last fight won WBO European title, and should enter WBO top 15

Alex Guerrero, 12-0-1, 6 KO, rated #14 by WBA, NABA champion

Also should be mentioned:
Mairis Briedis, 15-0-0, 12 KO, rated #16 by WBC
Jordan Shimmell, 19-0-0, 16 KO, rated #20 by WBC
Bilal Laggoune, 19-0-1, 9 KO, rated #31 by WBC
Stivens Bujaj, 13-0-1, 9 KO, rated #15 by WBC
Isa Akberbayev, 15-0-0, 11 KO, rated #34 by WBC
Ryad Merhy, 15-0-0, 13 KO, rated #30 by WBC
Isiah Thomas, 14-0-0, 6 KO, rated #36 by WBC
Aziz Karaoglu, 3-0-0, 2 KO, rated #40 by WBC
Braimah Kamoko, 27-0-0, 20 KO
Michal Cieslak, 7-0-0, 3 KO
Arsen Goulamirian, 9-0-0, 4 KO
Craig Kennedy, 11-0-0, 6 KO
Imre Szello, 6-0-0, 3 KO
Paul Parker, 7-0-0, 4 KO
Yves Ngabu, 13-0-0, 10 KO
Travis Peterkin, 15-0-0, 7 KO
Eemeli Katajisto, 8-0-0, 3 KO
Raphael Murphy, 10-0-0, 8 KO
Alexey Zubov, 6-0-0, 4 KO
Dimar Ortuz, 10-0-1, 7 KO
Hizni Altunkaya, 24-0-0, 16 KO
Ruslan Faifer, 5-0-0, 1 KO
Ehsan Maudodi, 7-0-0, 4 KO
Yury Kashinsky, 5-0-0, 5 KO
Andrew Tabiti, 9-0-0, 9 KO

Eliminated:
- Stephen Simmons (11-1-0, 5 KO) due to TKO loss to Jon-Lewis Dickinson (15-4-0, 4 KO)
- Junior Anthony Wright (13-1-1, 11 KO) due to TKO loss to Rakhim Chakhiev (23-1-0, 18 KO)

There are a lot of talented cruiserweights. There are more undefeated cruisers too.
Quantis Graves 10-0-2
Andrew Tabiti 9-0
Plus there are a lot of one and two loss boxers who are excellent. None of the cruiserweight champs are undefeated.

Agreed, it's a very exciting division.

They need to start fighting each other ffs.

Dennis wrote:There are a lot of talented cruiserweights. There are more undefeated cruisers too.
Quantis Graves 10-0-2
Andrew Tabiti 9-0
Plus there are a lot of one and two loss boxers who are excellent. None of the cruiserweight champs are undefeated.

I forget about Andrew Tabiti. I saw couple of his fights, he looks good and powerful.

ReggieDiggs wrote:They need to start fighting each other ffs.

I've read that Yunier Dorticos would fight against Murat Gassiev. It would be excellent crossroad fight

easily one of the best divisions in boxing, sady also one with barely no spotlight.

imagine a tournament like super 6 back than with guys like huck, hernandez, lebdeev, kudryasho, usyk and dorticas high standard all the way.

problem is the champs dotn wanna fight each outher

cold187 wrote:problem is the champs dotn wanna fight each outher

Agree, they also rarely fight, especially Lebdev and Hernandez.

ReggieDiggs wrote:They need to start fighting each other ffs.

I am hoping Jordan has a big fight soon. BTW Reggie did you check out the video of Jordan Shimmell sparring Adonis Stevenson? There is a link on the thread "Jordan Shimmell 18-0 with 15 KOs, world rated cruiserweight".

I fought a few of these undefeated crusierweghts would like to fight a few more in the future

GalenBadBoyBrown wrote:I fought a few of these undefeated crusierweghts would like to fight a few more in the future

Last year you fought against Dmytro Kucher, what could you say about him?

Kucher was good boxer no real power but didn't waste very many punchs but he was nothing special but was pretty decent fighter stayed behind the jab good, I hurt my foot nothing to bad just kind of twisted it and told the corner I picked up there that and they stopped the fight instantly was crazy because I was gonna keep fighting even though I was losing and got stopped because my foot lol but chances are fight wasn't gonna change unless I caught him clean but he is pretty good fighter

To spotlight this division you need a Dempsey-like fighter to come along and fight anyone and everyone, and tear through the division. That is not likely to happen any time soon. All these guys are fighting C and D level competition to pad their records. In the absence of a legit world governing body, we fans need to see a big-time promoter lure these guys into fighting each other. Otherwise they're just names on a scrap of paper.

cold187 wrote:problem is the champs dotn wanna fight each outher

First crossroad fight in cruiserweight in 2015: Micki Nieslen (17-0, 12 KOs) will defend his WBC International title against Junior Anthony Wright (13-0-1, 11 KOs) on May 2 at the Frederiksberg-Hallerne in Copenhagen. Wright replaces Felix Cora Jr. (25-6-2, 14 KOs) who withdrew from a scheduled bout to take fight against Murat Gassiev, 20-0-0, 14 KO.

Updates of the list:
- Bilal Laggoune, moves to 19-0-1, 9 KO after UD wins over Tamas Lodi (15-4-1, 12 KO)
- Arsen Goulamirian, moves to 9-0-0, 4 KO after SD wins over Ismail Abdoul (55-34-2, 20 KO)
- Ryad Merhy, moves to 15-0-0, 13 KO after KO wins over Arturs Kulikauskis (15-23-5, 7 KO)
- Stephen Simmons, eliminated due to TKO loss to Jon-Lewis Dickinson (15-4-0, 4 KO)

Updates of the list:
- Dmirty Kudryasov, moves to 17-0-0, 17 KO, after first round KO wins over former world title contender Francisco Palacios 23-2-0, 14 KO
- Mairis Briedis, moves to 15-0-0, 12 KO, after fourth round TKO wins over Bjoern Blaschke 9-5-1, 6 KO
- Travis Peterkin, moves to 15-0-0, 7 KO after fifth round TKO wins over Donta Woods 8-3-0, 7KO

Updates of the list:
- Oleksandr Usyk, moves to 7-0-0, 7 KO after 8 round TKO wins over #15 WBO ranked Andrey Knyazev 11-1-0, 6 KO
- Murat Gassiev, moves to 21-0-0, 15 KO after 9 round TKO wins over experienced Felix Cora Jr 25-6-2, 14 KO
- Imre Szello, moves to 6-0-0, 3 KO after 8 round UD wins over Giulian Ilie 20-8-2, 6 KO
- Jordan Shimmell, moves to 19-0-0, 16 KO after 5 round RTD wins over Carlos Reyes, 7-6-1, 5 KO