[brandon]

I never hear about it or see it anymore. I do see plenty of the other weight classes, but not the heavyweights? I can't believe MMA can wipe out the popularity of just one weight class. What's up?

[RealJustme]

Several of the former heavy weights admitted about 5 years ago on 60 minutes they were "lip-synching"...they lost a lot of boxing fans.

[brandon]

Wladimir Klitschko[2] (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Володи́мирович Кличко́ [transliteration: Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Klychko]; born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian heavyweight professional boxer. Klitschko is the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO & The Ring Heavyweight Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC Heavyweight Champion. Klitschko is the longest reigning IBF, WBO & IBO Heavyweight Champion in history with the most title defenses for those organizations. Overall, he is the 5th longest reigning Heavyweight Champion of all time with the 3rd most consecutive title defenses at 13. As of December 2012, Boxrec rates Klitschko as the number 3 pound-for-pound in the world. Ring Magazine currently rates Klitschko as the number seven pound-for-pound boxer in the world.

Since 2005, Klitschko has been the dominant force in the heavyweight division, defeating a majority of the top heavyweights in the rankings. When Klitschko won the IBF title against Chris Byrd there were four separate Heavyweight Champions. Since then, he has unified the IBF, IBO, WBO & WBA belts and defeated the WBA Champion in recess. Following his win over Ruslan Chagaev, Klitschko was awarded the vacant Ring Magazine Heavyweight title.


That's the reason right there. It doesn't fit the template.

[sillydaddy]

I think its lot simpler than that. It has to do with money. Most of the big guys make more in the NFL and NBA than they can in boxing. It takes a lot of people to bring fighters into the ring and they all want a cut of the pie when the match is over, leaving the guy who actually took the beating just owing taxes. '
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