Super middles - best boxing division??

The supermiddleweight division has always been a good hunting ground for british fighters, its one of the youngest divisions in the sport but since its emergence it has had its highs and lows, but over the last couple of years interms of talent and excitement its quite probable that its the hottest division in boxing!!

In the 90's We had the glorious fights with Benn, Eubanks,Watson and Collins, plus American superstars Royjones Jr and James Toney. Towards the end of the decade We had the likes of Robin Reid Richie Woodhall and obviously Calzaghe representing the brits, but the quality was starting to deteriorate as the top americans were fighting at middle or jumping straight to light heavy, the more marquee divisions at the time, so the super middle champs were mainly from Britain and europe. Calzaghe and Ottke were considered the best of the 2000s, but their apparent unwillingness to fight each other and travell away from their home countries further pushed the division down the doldrums.

But now though, a tremendous amoutn of amateur pedigree fighters have emerged at similar times, which tv network showtime has capatalised on and brought the very best fighters in the division to face off against one another to face the best. This has made the division look more tantalising and the top middle weight fighters want to step up and the top light heavy fighters step down in weight to fight against the very best opponents.

If your completely new to this division here is just of the names to look out for:

Carl Froch
Andre Ward
Lucien Bute
Mikkel Kessler
Andre Dirrell
Glen Johnson
Sakio Bika
Arthur Abraham
Kelly Pavlik
Jermain Taylor

All of these are top level fighters, but even then you can throw in the mix of gatekeeper/contendors Librado Andrade, Allan Green, Wbo champ Robert Stieglitz, Edison Miranda.

Then you have the Middleweight/lh fighters like Sergio Martinez, Jean Pascal, Chad Dawson,

And the young contendors like George Groves, James Degale, Edwin Rodriquez, all fighting to get into the mix.

For me the sheer wealth of talent in and around this division is what excites me as a boxing fan and hope that the tv networks put on more fights and competitions like the super six!!

Long may it continue!!