The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Yeah best athletes have not been doing boxing only in the lower divisions. The falloff of the heavyweight division has been massive everyone been obsessed about the term superheavyweights which wasn't even really there before guys like kellerman started mentioning it but you got 6'2 ruiz wiping out AJ. Even Wilder started late in the game and while he's an exceptional athlete lacks aspects of skill. Though in his defence fury is a stylistic nightmare.My issue with Fury is that no one with as poor discipline as he had should be competing as one of the world's greatest athletes. You're talking someone who was out there doing coke like crazy, drinking like crazy, gets up over 400 pounds, doesn't box for two years, doesn't even train for a good stretch of that time....and then he just goes out and loses 150 pounds, fights a couple half-serious warmup matches, and then bam - outboxes supposedly the best fighter in the world.
AJ out there as a fraud like you say, didn't even start boxing until 18 and fights a bunch of subpar opponents and somehow picks up nearly all the belts.
Ruiz was out there up to 350 pounds, fighting mostly journeymen...then bam cuts that weight, takes a fight on short notice, and takes all the belts away.
Wilder out there supposedly the best fighter in the world the last 3-4 years....so who has he beaten, ever? Guy is 33 years old and does he have a single historic win yet?
I'm just not buying that these are among the greatest athletes in the world. For the last 20 years heavyweight boxing has been dominated by a bunch of guys who happen to have extra long reach and technical skills. All the real athletes of size are playing other sports. And the fact that the ones that matter hardly ever even fighting each other makes it even worse.
Klitschko's are A level in their prime realy, they could give anyone a run even wlad in his prime but the division was so thin in their time. Even then people were ducking, Valuev wanted no smoke with Wlad. Klischko bros never were gonna face each other. The fall off from 90s heavyweight scene is insane.
But in your opinion what other sports are they goin to? Surely not mma the HW division there is thin nowadays and its a relatively new sport. Most of the top 10 heavies are old as fukk. Same as boxing most of the talent in the lower divisions .More likely nba rugby soccer nfl etc
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