How dominant has Wlad really been?

He certainly hasn't fought in the deepest ever era, but he has been one of the most dominating champions in any division ever in terms of remaining undefeated for a long time, beating pretty much every viable opponent out there and beating them dominantly.

It's a pitty that the best opponent of his era was his brother and that, on the face of it, the HW division seems to be getting better with some good young guys coming up as Wlad is nearing the end.

 

The HWs have been very poor over the last ten .people poping up for a title shot getting beaten and then disappearing never to be heard of again .hopefully it looks like some prospects are filtering through now and the HWs are getting interesting again .Having good HW division is good for boxing .

 

He'll show tonight why he is the man, and shut the snipers up.

 

He's been gosh darn dominant!

 

As dominant as any heavyweight can possibly be.

 

Dominant against a weak crop of heavyweights. Looking forward to seeing the careers of Joshua, Whtye and a few others just starting to show potential. The British have the best of the young heavyweights.

 

Yes never happened before has it? Like in the 1990s?

Bruce Seldon, Henry Akinwande, Axel Schulz, Frans Botha, Comeback 50 year old Foreman, crackaddict Oliver McCall, Vaugn Bean. Amazing depth of challengers and belt holders :rofl:rofl:rofl

 

Not forgetting Herbert Hide and his mate Michael Bentt.

 

He's been one of the most dominant champions in history, in any class.

Should he win today, he'll most likely finish his entire 30's unbeaten.

In that time span, he's lost perhaps one round a year or so. That is unreal in championship level boxing. The challengers he's been facing the last few years have fought essentially their entire careers with only Wlad to gun for.

Say what you want about level of competition, but you've had an entire generation of amateur standouts and world caliber prospects able to focus 100% on bringing one man down for years. There's a reason you don't see reigns like this everyday. Eventually, even a lesser fighter can have their day and upset the champ when everyone is gunning for him.

 

This is an example of how when there is a dominant champ people claim its not a tough era.
When champs go life and death with opponents suddenly its a tough era, then a dominant champ appears, beats all with ease and suddenly its not a good era.

Wladimir has been a great champ and beaten many top fighters. I expect that if he had of retired every now and again and another dominant champ appeared, say Povetkin or Haye for example and then Wlad turned up and beat them he would probably be given higher praise than when he just stayed champ and beat them.

Still with all that I am going against the grain and feeling Fury will outpoint Wlad

 

Precisely

 

The most dominant bestest ever.

 

Exactly. Just because Golovkin is so much better than anyone at Middleweight doesn't make everyone at Middleweight 'bums'. This era is no worse than the one Hopkins dominated.

 

Well you remembered them didn't you?.The fighters you mentioned are a different class than the cr#p that have been boring the pants off us for the last decade.