Best Fighter of the 21 Century?

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  1. cheech

    cheech Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Wladimir Klitschko or Floyd Mayweather?

    Overall career: Floyd 56% KO record / Wladimir 80% KO record

    • Wladimir had 30% more fights than Floyd in the 21st century
    • Mayweather beat mosley cotto hatton Marquez canelo guerro delahoya zuda
    • Wladmimir received the gold medal in the olympics while Floyd lost
    • Klitschko has held the IBF, WBO and IBO Heavyweight Championships longer than any other fighter in history, and he has defended those titles more than any other fighter. Overall, he is the second longest-reigning heavyweight champion of all-time. Only Joe Louis has had a longer title reign. Klitschko has made 15 consecutive title defenses. Only Joe Louis and Larry Holmes have made more. (Boxrec.com)
    • Floyd Has a record of 22-0 (10 KOs) in world title fights.
    • Wladimir Has a record of 22-2 (17 KOs) in World Title fights.
    • Wladimir won 61 (KO 51) + lost 3 (KO 3)
    • Floyd won 45 (KO 26) + lost 0 (KO 0)
     
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  2. VG_Addict

    VG_Addict Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Floyd is better because he's fought in weight classes with more talent. There's a reason he's #1 P4P.
     
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  3. cheech

    cheech Well-Known Member Full Member

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    People claim he fought the talent when they were past their prime
     
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  4. SweetSciGuru

    SweetSciGuru Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Vlad doesn't even belong in the top 10 p4p list
     
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  5. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    With only 14 years in the candidates are...

    boxing:
    Manny Pacquiao
    Floyd Mayweather

    mma:
    Jon Jones
    Anderson Silva
    Fedor Emelianenko

    kickboxing:
    Georgio Petrosyan
    Buakaw Por Pramuk

    muay thai:
    Saenchai sor Kingstar
     
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  6. Hatesrats

    Hatesrats "I'm NOT Suprised..." Full Member

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    Mayweather & Silva in their respective forms of fight.
     
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  7. boxing maniac

    boxing maniac Active Member Full Member

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    Floyd needs to stop being a ***** and fight the fight we fans wanna see not the fights he cherry picks
     
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  8. Paperagent

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    Unlike Floyd, Wladimir has never ducked anybody. His credentials speak for themselves. Has he lost? Of course he did.
    I think only one of those losses should only be used against him in an argument denying his greatness, and that one is
    his second round TKO loss to Corrie Sanders. The two other losses were down to poor conditioning, and one of which he
    avenged (Brewster), and the other he was winning pretty convincingly.

    Now you have Floyd. Undefeated, and the highest paid Athletes in all of sports. Has beaten innumerable world champions,
    and has secured a legacy for himself among the greats of the sport. The only blips in his record are the first JLC (proves that
    no man is immune to defeat), and his blatant ducking of Manny Pacquiao, and other assortment of fighters when they were in
    their physical peaks. Floyd record is great on paper, but the reality of it is that there is a lot to be desired, especially from an
    ATG like Floyd. The same could be said about Wlad, who for some indiscernible reason, didn't rematch Purrity, or Sanders.
    Both Men Wladdy boy could have beaten should he have implemented a proper game plan.

    Those are my 2 cents (or two paragraphs if you will).
     
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  9. Jennifer Love Hewitt

    Jennifer Love Hewitt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Lennox Lewis was still active in the early part of the century, so he gets the honor so far.
     
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  10. cheech

    cheech Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Interesting perspective.... Two loses out of sixty fights and his ko percentage is pretty impressive.
     
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  11. cheech

    cheech Well-Known Member Full Member

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    No... the majority of this fights were in the twentieth century. He would be placed in that era instead of the 21st.
     
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  12. Nopporn

    Nopporn Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Who is more boring than the other between Floyd and Wladimir?
     
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  13. Hatesrats

    Hatesrats "I'm NOT Suprised..." Full Member

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    Your boy PAC is a 12 rd fighter aswell :deal
    #NoPowersince'09
     
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  14. JASPER

    JASPER Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Floyd Hands down, followed by Pac and then Bhop . . . JMM is probably 4 followed by Calderon. Wlad is great strictly in the terms of 21st century Heavyweights . . . and there he comes in second to Lennox who's ripping off the face of Vitali is better than anything Wlad has done the last 5 years.
     
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  15. Thread Stealer

    Thread Stealer Loyal Member Full Member

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    Mayweather and Pacquiao are the top 2 fighters of the 21st century
     
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