Heavyweight match ups (Boxing)

[Sumerian]

Is there any interesting match ups you can come up with for the heavyweights? 

The only ones I can come up with is Joshua vs Wilder, or Fury vs either of them. 

Or if Ortiz can beat Wilder, then that should be interesting.

Edited September 20, 2017 by E.L King

[User4628568309]

The heavyweight division is dead, barely a handful of exciting potential match ups, and it doesn't look like Fury has kept himself in top fighting condition even if he returned. Welterweight is where the excitement's at. Thurman, Porter, Garcia, Spence, and looks like Crawford is making the move up.

[ShiaMan14]

1 hour ago, E.L King said:

Is there any interesting match ups you can come up with for the heavyweights? 

The only ones I can come up with is Joshua vs Wilder, or Fury vs either of them. 

Or if Ortiz can beat Wilder, then that should be interesting.

The heavyweight division is struggling at the moment. There are no marquee names. 

Best boxing recently was Canelo vs. GGG even though GGG was clearly robbed.

[Sumerian]

6 hours ago, shiaman14 said:

The heavyweight division is struggling at the moment. There are no marquee names. 

Best boxing recently was Canelo vs. GGG even though GGG was clearly robbed.

Anthony Joshua is not a marquee name? After he beat the great Klitchko?

[Sumerian]

10 hours ago, IbnMariam said:

The heavyweight division is dead, barely a handful of exciting potential match ups, and it doesn't look like Fury has kept himself in top fighting condition even if he returned. Welterweight is where the excitement's at. Thurman, Porter, Garcia, Spence, and looks like Crawford is making the move up.

I agree it is not exciting as a division, right now, but I think there's a few interesting match ups.

I agree the welterweight looks so exciting, I want to see Spence vs Thurman.

[User4628568309]

11 minutes ago, E.L King said:

I want to see Spence vs Thurman.

That's the big one for sure. Needs to happen but I don't think it'll happen for a while. Thurman's still out at least until early next year, and I doubt he'll want to face Spence straight away, plus the hype isn't there yet to sell the fight which is unfortunate because they're both beasts. If Spence eventually goes on to face him and wins, maybe he and Canelo could meet at 154, he's quite big for a welterweight.

[ShiaMan14]

4 hours ago, E.L King said:

Anthony Joshua is not a marquee name? After he beat the great Klitchko?

He is to you and me but to the average person, not so much.

I bet less than 1% of people on ShiaChat would know who he is but almost 100% would know Tyson.

That is what I mean. I like Anthony Joshua.

[Sumerian]

5 hours ago, shiaman14 said:

He is to you and me but to the average person, not so much.

I bet less than 1% of people on ShiaChat would know who he is but almost 100% would know Tyson.

That is what I mean. I like Anthony Joshua.

I think in the boxing world he's considered marquee. The reason why Mike Tyson is because he's a celebrity-boxer. Would the average person know Sugar Ray Robinson or Sugar Ray Leonard? I doubt it. But they are legends and top 10 greats.

[User4628568309]

7 hours ago, shiaman14 said:

He is to you and me but to the average person, not so much.

I bet less than 1% of people on ShiaChat would know who he is but almost 100% would know Tyson.

That is what I mean. I like Anthony Joshua.

After that uppercut on Klitschko every other person who typically show little interest in boxing were talking about "AJ" lol 

[ShiaMan14]

9 hours ago, E.L King said:

I think in the boxing world he's considered marquee. The reason why Mike Tyson is because he's a celebrity-boxer. Would the average person know Sugar Ray Robinson or Sugar Ray Leonard? I doubt it. But they are legends and top 10 greats.

I guess it depends on what you mean by marquee. I was looking at it from a PPV buy perspective. No Joshua fight is in the Top-100 fights of PPV buys.

It terms of just pure heavyweight boxing, he is the best by far in a while.

 

[Sumerian]

8 hours ago, shiaman14 said:

I guess it depends on what you mean by marquee. I was looking at it from a PPV buy perspective. No Joshua fight is in the Top-100 fights of PPV buys.

It terms of just pure heavyweight boxing, he is the best by far in a while.

 

I see what you mean. But the Brits went crazy over it, he's a rising star there for sure.

Read this bro:

www.balls.ie/amp/newsnow/joshua-klitschko-ppv-numbers-364219

Edited September 21, 2017 by E.L King

[ShiaMan14]

1 hour ago, E.L King said:

I see what you mean. But the Brits went crazy over it, he's a rising star there for sure.

Read this bro:

www.balls.ie/amp/newsnow/joshua-klitschko-ppv-numbers-364219

it really is unfortunate. If AJ was American, he would be trumpeted around the world as the biggest superstar ever.