Will There Ever...

Think the lighter divisions are generally much more exciting these days. Before it may have been the heavyweight fights people couldn't wait to see but now I'd much rather watch the 'lower leagues' than the heavyweights.

But why is there such a shortage of top heavyweights?

There is no excitement in that divison anymore.

As Mattyp said no one can get near the Klitschko's at the moment. Haye was quite exciting in that he started as a Cruiserweight and told everyone he was going to go heavyweight so we got to follow his journey to becoming world champ. But these days you get guys like John Ruiz, Derek Chisora etc being in the frame it's really a joke.

Im probably miles off here, but going by my knowledge, purely from popular culture, are the young underprivileged black kids in America finding it more lucrative and easy to be dragged into the unfortunate world of drugs/dealing?

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When Tyson was at the peak of his powers it was also a weak division.

Lewis, Holyfield and Bowe then came along, but Tyson was on a downward slope when he faced them.

From a British perspective we may be entering an exciting period with three good good fighters in haye, Price and Fury.

What made Tyson so famous was his age, he was a kid bossing a mans game. He walked they opponents with ease and even if the division reached its technical high in the 90's, the 80's audience were more subjective to the aura of a baby faced assassin.

The division needs to regain its aura, trouble is folk these days are underwhelmed and de sensitised to the emotions of two giants slugging It out. There are no personalities and no charismatic fighters in the division. The k's are awesome but only been tested once or twice. A stacked heavyweight division is is what boxing needs.

If the K brothers were American or British and perhaps even black no one would say the heavyweight division is dead. They get an unfair bad press due to where they originate from and the fact that they fight in Germany. When they have almost 100 k.os combined how can anyone judge.

Wlad is a very dull fighter, Vitali is well past his prime.

Both now are cherry picking fight and have very dodgy contracts.

Tyson got a lot of non boxing fans into the sport.

There are a couple of prospects in America - Deontay Wilder was on Friday Night Fights on ESPN a few weeks back. He was 27 and had 21 wins on his record, all by knockout. The commentators were of the opinion he was waiting for the K's to retire though, and I suspect their right tbh.