What will it take to get people interested in cruiserweight boxing?

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They've got some great talent in the division (Dorticos, 21-0 with 20 KOs, Briedis 22-0 with 18 KOs, Gassiev with 24-0 with 17 KOs)

I mean, what gives? The average American man would be in the cruiserweight range. They've had some great fighters (Young Holyfield, Qawi, RJJ and James Toney for brief moments) The highest cruiserweight purse in boxing history is $1.5 million for Hill v Maske in 1996! What needs to change for the division to get as popular as the others? I'm tired of seeing cruiserweights blow themselves up and lose their power and quickness just to go to heavyweight and chase a bigger bag.
 
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Wanya Morris said:
It can be argued that MOST boxing divisions aren't "American" divisions...so why is CW suffering more than the rest?
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Red headed stepchild division that nobody really wants to be in and it's been that way since it was created...stepping stone division for big Light Heavyweights that are either in the process of transitioning to Heavyweight...or just to lazy to try to make Light Heavyweight.

The division always produces entertaining fights since most of the tops guys @ Cruiser are limited B-Level guys and mostly evenly matched.
 
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Yeah; 175-200 is pretty much the average weight of a grown man in the western world, yet the division is perceived as " fake ".
 
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High Information Militant said:
The division always produces entertaining fights since most of the tops guys @ Cruiser are limited B-Level guys and mostly evenly matched.
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It is one of the few divisions..hell prolly the only one where parity really exists

WBSS going on for the cruisers is a really good look for them but it sucks because no US network are airing..usyk vs huck was a good scrap..those fights are going to have fades galore...hbo got behind the little guys again and bam those divisions are red hot now..i still hold on that the same will happen to CW
 
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farfan said:
Yeah; 175-200 is pretty much the average weight of a grown man in the western world, yet the division is perceived as " fake ".
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the averages include every overweight or obese person, the normal average weight if nobody would be obese or overweight wouldn't be that high. and professional athletes are not obese in general
 
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PERSONALITY.

in any division, any sport... any type of game.

its what separates the big combat athletes like Floyd, Ali, Tyson, Austin, The Rock, Mcgregor, Bruce Lee, etc.

they had that it factor.
 
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Apex said:
PERSONALITY.

in any division, any sport... any type of game.

its what separates the big combat athletes like Floyd, Ali, Tyson, Austin, The Rock, Mcgregor, Bruce Lee, etc.

they had that it factor.
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they could build up some guys from cruiser just it's really not an American division so no network bothers to do it.

Cruiserweight is less popular cause it's n the shadow of heavyweight which is maybe not today but historically THE glamour division of boxing, the division which moved the most casuals. Cruiser is in the unlucky situation of being the "almost hw but not..." division and since the big money was in HW, the Americans who long dominated boxing and to a lesser extent they still do rather competed in heavyweight either from the start or after a shorter CW career or tried to make LHW if they were lighter. Cruiser was and is still a "last resort" division to American fighters, when a fighter would be really small to HW but can't make LHW.

Cruiser's popularity will grow imo cause in HW in the last decade and from there continouesly about towers like the Klitchko bros, Joshua or Wilder so smaaller HWs have harder and harder time, so they might will choose CW by a greater chance eve if they're American
 
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reservoirdogs said:
they could build up some guys from cruiser just it's really not an American division so no network bothers to do it.

Cruiserweight is less popular cause it's n the shadow of heavyweight which is maybe not today but historically THE glamour division of boxing, the division which moved the most casuals. Cruiser is in the unlucky situation of being the "almost hw but not..." division and since the big money was in HW, the Americans who long dominated boxing and to a lesser extent they still do rather competed in heavyweight either from the start or after a shorter CW career or tried to make LHW if they were lighter. Cruiser was and is still a "last resort" division to American fighters, when a fighter would be really small to HW but can't make LHW.

Cruiser's popularity will grow imo cause in HW in the last decade and from there continouesly about towers like the Klitchko bros, Joshua or Wilder so smaaller HWs have harder and harder time, so they might will choose CW by a greater chance eve if they're American
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all it takes is one guy.

if a cruiserweight came out tomorrow and started talking as if he was the pGOAT, he'd sell ppvs.
 
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