Klitschko and the Heavyweight Renaissance

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By John Hively - “We are told that the heavyweight crop which now stands out is as expert and as promising as the peach crop in Alaska. All along the line there is a moaning and a groaning, all because the critics have got it into their heads that the passing of Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis means the practical death of heavyweight boxing. To one who has seen them come and go this is really a dandy joke.” Legendary promoter Tex Rickard wrote those words in the November 1928 issue of Ring magazine, only the names he mentioned were Dempsey and Tunny. But the same thing he wrote then can be said of the current heavyweight class. The experts have it all wrong. Instead of the weakest crop of heavyweights in the history of the sport, the big boys of today are talented and they make up one of the deepest and most talented pool of heavyweights the sport of boxing has seen since the middle of the nineteen-seventies.
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[GunStar]

Did Canada Joe wrote this article??

[Steelhammer86]

Great article! My thoughts exactly...it will take awhile, but eventually the American boxing fans will come to appreciate how good these fighters really are.

[werewolf]

The whole schtick about how the heavyweight division is now weak is perpetrated by the politically corrected sportswriters and commentators on the payroll of the USA's controlled mass media. They are pissed off because their precious American Blacks have finally been expurgated from the heavyweight division. They thought it was their sinecure.

And when are we going to be treated to mocking commentaries about the next "great black hope" and great black dope" that we were treated to in reverse for all these years?





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[duffgun]

the heavyweight division has improved recently, although i dont think the top fighters of today are as good as the early mid 90's and the 70's, they are improving. and with 2 title holding unifying wlad possibly fighting the winner and peter going for the title and a possible exciting fight with vitali it look better.

[kayjay]

It is about the second or third strongest and deepest division in boxing.

[satori555]

they may not suck but boy are they boring

[Steelhammer86]

they may not suck but boy are they boring

No, the most exciting heavyweights to watch are Ibragimov, Povetkin, Maskaev, Chagaev and Wlad. There's nothing boring about them - they're faster than most heavyweights and throw more punches. Some are excellent counterpunchers and they all have KO power.

The boring heavyweights - Valuev, Ruiz, and Briggs - no longer have titles.

[demirturk]

i agree !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **** larry merchant !!!!

[duffgun]

wlad brewster could be an exciting fight