The corruption has always existed, but now its out of control and it started when they took away Muhammad Alis title for his views on the Vietnam war. It allowed organizations to take advantage of the fact that there was no real champion and to dish out new world titles, then to create new divisions in order to give out more titles there by collecting more fee's and inevitably destroying the credibility of boxing. But boxing will still be boxing because who does not enjoy a good scrap?

The heavyweight division never had an overabundance of talent throughout history. It was at its best during the 1970s. That was the greatest era in the division. The lighter weights are all around better and superior fighters. The heavyweights can go so far with only 1 or 2 things going for them. Also now you have MMA. I used to be a boxing fanatic in the 1980s and 1990s. Today I do not even watch it anymore. The MMA passed boxing a long long time ago. Today nobody knows who the heavyweight champ is this used to be the most prestigious title in all of sports. Today whats more nobody even cares who the heavyweight champ is.

Boxing is coming back strong. The weak American Heavyweight era was do to lack of interest. The youth would rather play Football, or even Basketball, Wrestling, Baseball, Hockey, Boxing is not high as high on a the interest by youth, as it once was, but Boxing is getting some of it back, and is staying strong. At the moment Wilder, and Jennings are two Americans trying to get a title shot, and Jennings has a huge challenge tonight.

Nothing.

Just because your gym doesn't have heavy weights doesn't mean the sport is dying down.

This is a new era,the biggest star's may be in lighter weight class's but that doesn't mean you should exclude the heavyweight division and say its weak.

Its got extremely tough dudes.

Heavyweight is now dominated by Europeans. And Americans don't take interest in their style of fighting or their fighters.

heavyweight boxers are now nba stars. Lebron James might ok wait not him. That guy who won the finals MVP for San Antonio he would probably make an above average heavyweight boxer probably not as good as holyfield but better than say chris byrd or john ruiz or the guys the klitchkoes have beaten the last few years. I think it should just be allowed to wither, basketball is safer than boxing.

I have felt this way for a while. It seems that all the action today is found around the middle weight area with Pac Man, Marquez, and Mayweather. I'm seeming to have a harder time finding the heavyweight matches across the PPVs. It seems that heavyweight boxing has went down since Evander Holyfield retired.

I boxed amateur when I was younger, met a friend at a gym for some sparring a week ago. Its a good gym, but I was dissapointed by the lack of heavyweights compared to when I fought in the late 80's. Is boxing going down or are big kids just doing other sports? So my question is what do you think could be done to bring back heavyweight boxing?