The heavyweight division has become boxing’s newest comedy show, a long run of sight gags and surprise endings where you never know who the hero is.
It’s too bad. The heavies used run the fight game and pretty much dominated it. That’s just the way it was back then. The Yankees ruled baseball and the heavyweights ran boxing. If you had a great heavyweight champ, you had a healthy fight game. If you didn’t have a great champ, few people cared how the rest of the sport was doing.
But then the division hit another one of those slumps and fell into hard times, and now the rest of boxing is doing its best to get along without the heavyweights.
That’s why the fight game needs tough guys like featherweight contender Manny Pacquiao (38-2-1, 29 KOs) and IBF/WBA featherweight champ Juan Manuel Marquez (42-2-0, 33 KOs).
