Which ones do you pick to stay ? And keep in mind if you eliminate heavyweight it's never coming back so just because it sucks now doesn't mean it wouldn't be great in the next 10 years. So they're never coming back so pick wisely.
The three lowest divisions. But please don't hold me to that, everything I say is capable of at least 5 different interpretations. Hidden meanings about. How cowardly. :laugh11:
Not to SHIT on the Spirit of the Thread, but there's Really NO Way of FAIRLY Reducing Boxing to just 3 Divisions... There's NO Way U Can EXPECT Guys like Ricardo Lopez, Michael Carbajal or Mark Johnson to Go Much Higher than they Did...Sure, Johnny Tapia and Others Pulled it Off, but they're the EXCEPTION to the Rule... Likewise, U CAN'T Rid the Sport of MONSTROUS Heavy's like Lennox or the Klit Brothers Either...There's just NOfuckingWAY U Can Devise 3 Weight Classes that Can FAIRLY Encompass a Ricardo Lopez AND a Lennox Lewis... U'd have to ELIMINATE Heavyweight Altogether OR 1 of the Extreme Lower Weights...& By Doing that, U'd B Doing a DISservice to the Sport... REED:shit:
Yes, he's sorry, sorry he couldn't behave himself. He will learn his lesson. Its all the cold weather, the lad has magma-like thought processes. High viscosity learning. Slow flow. The Slow Flow from the No' Po'.
i agree about the lower weights, but eliminating heavyweight would be doing a great service to the sport.
i would find it highly amusing to see a prime 110lb mark johnson sparring with a piece of dookie like rocco. it would be fun to see for a minute or two
A welder is only as good as his last weld. It would be unfair on the division to be remembered for magnolia magnificence alone. Best keep that sucker open for a while yet, give the worm a chance to turn, then maybe, on that happy note, bring the orchestra to a close in preference of a smaller band-stand.
The problem is that the divisions bloom in a desultory fashion. "Cruiserweight Is Loserweight", mused epic scribe Thomas Hauser in the late 1990's, yet Jirov vs Toney, Adamek vs Cunningham, Thompson vs Eubank are just some of the very very good fights we've had in the division since the aforementioned droning literary giant penned his moronic verse. The recent cruiserweight tournament has been a success, of sorts at least. 140, by contrast, is not at all the division it used to be.
The problem with cruiser is that it's always been a feeding ground for heavyweight. Other than Holyfield, you have a couple generations of good fighters losing to guys way bigger than them for a living. Without heavyweight, cruiser would be an amazing division.
Right now it would be the absolute worst to be in your best shape around 190. No way you can make light-heavy and much too small for the big guys as well. You'd even be small by modern cruiser standards.
Yep. Still, if I was eliminating heavyweight, I'd want the cruiser limit to be at least 200lbs. Even guys like Tyson, if they absolutely had to be 200lbs or they couldn't fight, would evolve and make the weight.
if 200lbs was the limit for heavyweight then evander holyfield would be the greatest fighter of all time.
Think of the money he would save on steroids. Dude would be able to retire before 45 on all the money he saved.
That would also make Qawi the guy who beat the greatest fighter of all time, but didn't quite get the decision.
