Just would like to check in and see where the forum stands right now on this. Again, this isn't legacy, so if you love old, smaller ATGs but don't think they could cope with modern shw's, don't feel bad in not voting for them.
I have to disagree with this. I think Holmes was better prime for prime, also lennox, Ali just to name a few. Though I'd go with the Cassius clay version.
I agree if you talk about ranking and accomplishment. But h2h there are not many i will favour against him with certainty. Maybe Lennox can give him a tough one.
You have a point. Ali Holmes and Lennox have good size to give vitali trouble. Still, I can't pick any of them confidently
You cannot outbox either Vitali nor Wlad, With Wlad you have a slight chance to drop him and possibly KO him, although not likely, but with Vitali you cant do both.
A couple things in response to above. I would have put Rocky and others up there but you can only put 8 choices up. Second, my thoughts on Ali and Holmes. They would have no chance against the top modern ATG SHWs. Too small and too light hitting. Every dominant HW champ in history has either been bigger than his peers and or harder hitting. Small, movement based hw's have never had a ton of success at the highest levels. In his time, Ali was big and fast, like Fury is now. Holmes was biggish and kinda heavy hitting. Both would now be too small.
Excellent post, seriously you are some kind of super genius! Where do you get this profound acumen? How did you get it? And why are you not sharing the secrets of your intuition to all of us? Its as if you have a boxing PHD from the University of Shattered chins.
Well, what do you disagree with, then? If you are going to mock, you may as well put your own opinion out there and subject yourself to mockery.
Wait, did you just mention Fury and Ali in the same sentence? That must have been a typo. Ali beat perhaps the 2 hardest punching heavyweights of all time in Shavers and Foreman. He toyed with Foreman before tiring him out so much he basically fell over. The Klitschkos are so comparatively slow I don't think they land many punches at all on Ali, tire later in the fight and get dominated. And for the few punches they did land, nobody took a punch like Ali. Holmes and Lewis would be more of a challenge because their boxing skill level was a step above over Klitschkos. Still, Ali (actually when he was Cassius Clay), was faster than either with better boxing skills and better chin. Biggest challenge I think would be a prime Tyson (around the time he fought Berbick when Rooney was still training him). He had the sharpness, speed, and success against bigger guys to give him lots of problems. Still, I think the Ali (Clay version) finds a way. All of that is IMO of course.