Boring HBO Boxing Night

Last night. Vitali v. Adamek was never remotely close. Then the, uh [Mexican dude] vs. [Cuban dude] fight had some decent exchanges but ends anti-climactically with ref stoppage and decision on points due to accidental head-butt.

No real point to this. Though it looks like some okay bouts coming up in the next month or two (if you believe the HBO promos, of course).

Vitali has no one to fight. he gets weak stiffs every bout.

Maybe I should start another thread but I’ll follow up with you.

I’ve seen Adamek fight twice. He is a very skilled and well trained fighter but the size difference was a classic demonstration of why there are weight classes in boxing. He is as skilled or more skilled than Vitaly but the size difference was impossible to overcome. The fight went exactly as I thought it would.

Now to my point/question:

In the pre-fight build-up on HBO they listed something like the 7 top heavyweights in boxing with the Klitchco’s on top. Yet, none of those 7 were black and I don’t know if any of them were from the USA.

So, what’s happened to the big, black American boxers that dominated the heavyweight division for so many years? There is no racism in asking this question. It just seems very odd that the American black heavyweights have disappeared to the point of being irrelevant. What’s going on and how did it happen? Since Marciano, American blacks have owned the heavyweight division of the boxing world. Why aren’t there any that are contending for the belts these days? I know that boxing is in a decline and has been poorly promoted and managed but there is still a lot of money out there. What happened to cause such a radical shift?

Well, and God knows that it isn’t (from American football, etc.) because we don’t have hefty black dudes. I think it’s just that boxing has fallen so far out of favor even for the lower economic classes.

Truer words were never spoke. As Lampley put it – his best opponent is his brother, and they’ll never fight because they’d disable each other.

Unfortunate that this is what the heavyweight division has come to. We’ve got some excitement in the lower weight ranges, though the lingering resentment over the failure of Maywether and Pacquiao to get it together (I am a huge Pacman fan but blame him pretty much equally) is kind of all-consuming.

This brings up something else that further confounds me. It was always said that boxing is the sport of the underclass whether it was the Irish, the Italians, the Hispanics or the Blacks. Now when you look at MMA you see a bunch of mostly white guys trying to kill each other. Are whites now the underclass?

When was the last good heavyweight fight?