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RE: Heavyweight Division - craigyid14 - 02-07-2016 TBA has got a busy few months. The heavyweight division has to be one of the weakest divisions. RE: Heavyweight Division - NakiFan - 02-07-2016 (02-07-2016, 09:37 PM)craigyid14 Wrote: TBA has got a busy few months. The heavyweight division has to be one of the weakest divisions. Why is that? Weakest in terms of quality of fighters or weakest of quality of matchups? It's the HW division that tends to bring fans into the sport, and for me it was the resurgence of the HW division that sparked my interest again. RE: Heavyweight Division - shamrock - 02-07-2016 Fair comments Craig. The heavyweights have become increasingly interesting RE: Heavyweight Division - craigyid14 - 02-07-2016 Both, Martin and Wilder as champions is laughable, there resumes are on a par with prospects Parker and Joshua, which is so wrong. What happened to fighters fighting there number 1 contenders? Why is Wilder not fighting Potevkin? There should be a no nonsense stance from the WBC, if Wilder won't defend against him in April strip him of his title. If Potevkin doesn't wish to fight him strip him of his no 1 ranking, in fact drop him from the top ten, if you don't wanna fight the champ choose another job. None of those match ups excites me, maybe Fury/Klitscko but the first fight was a bit of a stinker. I remember somebody posting on here that Martin got only US$350,000 for his vacant 'title fight' with Glazhov, well over paid. RE: Heavyweight Division - craigyid14 - 02-07-2016 (02-07-2016, 10:00 PM)shamrock Wrote: Fair comments Craig. The heavyweights have become increasingly interesting.The only thing that interests me is if Parker and Joshua can make the next step and clean out the division. The way Furys talking he'll be fighting twice a year at most. RE: Heavyweight Division - shamrock - 02-07-2016 Fury is unstable about what he intends in the future,I'm just hoping the rematch with Wlad will stay secure, I think it's important to get past that one to create a solid status for the winner then the new blood will have a pinnicle to conquer in laying a solI'd claim to HW glory. RE: Heavyweight Division - tm7 - 02-08-2016 Rivas v Washington gets me excited! Great to see fighters willing to lose their 0 to make a good fight. Desperately holding onto your 0 is ridiculous. Wlad is one of TBE heavyweights in anyone's mind and he's lost 4 times RE: Heavyweight Division - diehard - 02-08-2016 I just like seeing all the heavyweights competing. They're coming out of the woodwork. Never seen Rivas, but Washington is above average. RE: Heavyweight Division - diehard - 02-08-2016 Tony Thompson says he’ll step in to face WBA interim heavyweight champ Luis Ortiz next month James Slater - February 6, 2016 - 66 comments Ultra-experienced long time heavyweight contender Tony Thompson isn’t quite ready to call it a day and retire yet. Immediately after his October points loss to the much quicker Malik Scott (who had to survive a late-rounds knockdown) “The Tiger” said he would retire. Now, though, in hearing about interim WBA heavyweight champion Luis Ortiz and his struggle finding a challenger for his scheduled March 5th date on HBO’s Boxing After Dark, the 44-year-old says he will step in to face the Cuban who is eight years his junior. As has previously been reported, Alexander Dimitrenko – thought to have been a done deal to face Ortiz on March 5th – asked for too much money, killing the fight. Thompson confirmed to this writer that he is trying to get the fight for himself now. “We’re trying to make the fight with Ortiz now,” Thompson informed me via social media. “[David] Haye wouldn’t fight me.” So, will Ortiz and his people agree to take on the dangerous, savvy former two-time world title challenger? It would be an interesting fight, between two big, hard-hitting southpaws. Thompson may have slowed down a little, as we saw in the fight with Scott, but he remains durable (stopped only by then heavyweight ruler Wladimir Klitschko, twice, in a 40-6 record compiled over 16-years) and he has the height and reach to perhaps be able to trouble Ortiz. If he has been in training since his loss late last year and has not gotten too out of shape, Thompson might well mount a good challenge. But four weeks isn’t very much time (is it enough time, I asked Thompson: “it’s gonna have to be, lol,” he shot back), and if Thompson has been sitting around doing nothing, it would be a hard job for him to get into top fighting shape for March 5th. But would HBO approve the fight if Ortiz does agree to take it? I think they would, as Thompson is a name and he doesn’t get turned over quickly by any fighter. Ortiz would make a big statement if he managed to do a demolition job on the man from Washington D.C. Thompson hasn’t fought a fellow lefty in quite some time, yet with all his experience – having been in with everyone from Klitschko, to Kubrat Pulev, to Odlanier Solis, to David Price – it’s unlikely he would be overly troubled by this. If he’s kept himself in reasonable shape and as long as HBO approve the match-up, Ortiz Vs. Thompson has the look of an interesting fight that can be made. RE: Heavyweight Division - NakiFan - 02-08-2016 Thanks diehard....Updated list below. 1. Luis Ortiz Vs Tony Thompson - March 5th D.C. 2. Joseph Parker Vs TBA - April 17th 3. Anthony Joshua Vs TBA - April 4th 4. Ruslan Chagaev Vs Lucas Browne - March 3rd - Germany 5. Tomasz Adamek Vs Eric Molina - April 2nd 6. The Furious One™ v Vlad II. June 4th 7. Oscar Rivas vs Gerald Washington on Feb-27 8. Deontay Wilder vs. TBA in April sometime |