Explain it to us than. What are his greatest wins and what have those fighters done to distinguish themselves? What is his signature win? Can you name another heavyweight ATG who has never beaten a future HOF'er or ATG? These questions always get dismissed by fans who's favoritism clouds objective reasoning.
Since when does a forum poll mean anything? I have had several polls show the opposite and you know it. :yep
Yes, but using the annual rankings every fighter misses guys who were ranked. Its fair for everyone. If I had access to every monthly issue I'd be happy to use that. I'm sure the numbers would still not favor this era.
Tell us exacyly how vits should rank higher tban Holmes. Does he have more defenses? Did he beat more highly skilled fighters? What?
Thing thats disappointing is he could have fought so many better names and just left them for lil bro to take care.
Agree. When people look back on Wlad's career the words that will instantly come to mind are coward boring embarrassment protected corey sanders
wrong corey, me thinks. that's the bug eyed one lol. impressive though that there was a HW corey sanders even worse than the actual corrie sanders.
Two inescapable facts count against Vitali being the All Time Great Heavyweight. 1 - He wasn't good enough to beat Lennox Lewis. 2 - Wladimir has accomplished more than he has and has a much stronger resume. You can make the case for him being "an" ATG, but not "the" ATG
Actually they very much are. The fact is you are a moron. Let me just easily pick out one of the many names you have on that list and this one would be pretty obvious to most. Roy Jones...when in the **** would have there 2 Worlds intersected? Roy Jones moved up to HW and beat a second rate titlist in Ruiz and never fought there again? You bring up the fights that Vit had with former CW's as a critique, what would stop you from doing the same in this case..and even worse? Or does this just reek too much of hypocrisy from you to answer? How would this fight have ever been made?...dispute that fact(which are just facts in your own head)