If he stays the champ for another 2-4 years beating any 2 of the following established fighters: Povetkin Pulev Haye (again) Chris Arreola In addition beating any 2-3 of the following emerging prospects (disclosure: beating the more succesful prospects) Tyson Fury Robert Helenius David Price Seth Mitchell Dountry Wilder Denis Boytsov Vyacheslav Glazkov In my opinion yes as far as a resume is concerned, wlad will always be top 15 H2H but resume wise it will be a very strong resume that will be recognized more so in the future rather than it is now.
No. Chin. Resume--losses and weak competition. No marquee performances. Awkward style. Absolutely top 20. Maybe top 15. Pushing it at top 10, but 5 is a canon reserved for old fighters that weighed 187 lbs. and Muhammad Ali/Joe Louis.
Your poll options are stupid and you are a grub Wlad is outside the top 10, but easily inside the top 20.
I will bump my thread as yours is **** - currently 62% have him outside the top 10, 22% outside the top 20. http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=419236
did you read my original post... once you do come back and respond... right now he might be top 10 for some top 20 for most.
not at the moment, but if he keeps dominating the HW scene, I'd say for the next 4-5 years, he'll be in the top 5
at the moment, the best names for Wlad are Pulev, Price and Povetkin, after that maybe Arreola or even Fury Haye is only good from a marketing point, as he would run his mouth to the weigh-in, and then once again get outpointed or even KO'd, since Wlad always does much better in rematches (Byrd, Brewster, Peter, Thompson)
Povetkin and Fury are the only meaningful fights left although Arreola and Mitchell would probably be good for his legacy since they are generally considered to be, along with Chambers, the best HWs in the US.