Vitali Klitschko would beat current top 3 heavyweights

And what did joshua, fury or wilder do??

 

Wlad was shot with jennings , that’s why I predicted fury would win , but there’s no way I would favor fury against 33 yo wlad.

 

He wouldn't just beat them; he'd stop all three (and I don't particularly rate his power as being historically exceptional at HW).

 

Funny how he suddenly became shot the moment he left Germany , as if the ref taking away his huggy bear tactics had nothing to do with it.

Bring Jennings to Germany , and it would have looked like another routine title defense for WK because he would've been free to back hump him to death as much as he wanted.

 

If Wilder couldn't stop Fury then Vitali wouldn't have a hope in hell.

You can stand guys right in front of Vitali (kingpin , briggs) and he can't even drop then , let alone knock them out.

Vitai would be doing well to even land a punch on Fury.

 

YDKSAB, son!!!

All three heavyweight champs have suspect china, to some degree, and that all of them have gotten this far without being KTFO is a combination of miraculous luck, careful matchmaking, and favorable (read: bought & paid for) officiating.

Vitali with his large volume of heavy-handed arm punches would pack more than enough wallop to grind all three of them down with accumulation. Wilder landed ONE shot in anger on Fury - and spent eleven other rounds windmilling and whiffing. Vitali was nowhere close to his brother in terms of technical precision or accuracy, but he damn sure has more educated hands than Wilder (by a proportion of like a phD to a kindergarten flunk-out). He was able to land from more unconventional angles because of his awkward kickboxing stance and his really excellent effective footwork for a heavyweight (yes, better/quicker than even Fury's, who is the best if a bad bunch in the current crop).

Neither AJ nor Wilder nor Fury could stand up to a full twelve rounds of Vitali's consistently scoring barrage (and consistently score he would, doling out damage with his above-average - though not concussive 1-shot type stuff like Wlad - power, and by attrition get them all on ***** St., whereupon he would put the coup d'egras and deal each of them a long overdue KTFO loss.

 

No re@ard he became shot when he got old. He was shot and 40 is old , if you think 40 is not old then all other atg heavyweights are bums , coz they all were shot at that age.

 

There is a misconception that Vitali applied pressure , he didn't , ever.

Briggs , Sanders , Peter , Arroela , Chisora , Hoffman -- he drubbed them all off the back foot. His accumulation effect was nowhere to be seen against guys that could box him like Byrd , Johnson and Lennox.
It was there briefly against Lewis , but didn't last long due to how easily Lewis got through with punches. Notice that Vitali didn't pressure Lewis , it was Lewis who pressured him. This because Vitali is only effective from long range.
He can't shorten his shots in close and doesn't even have hooks on the outside where he's at his best , so even if he did get inside on Fury , he wouldn't know what to do in there since he as no inside armoury at all!!

He fought one style of opponent for the majority of his career for this reason. Guys with longer reaches and tall guys like Rahman and McCline were avoided in favour of short stumpy plodders who he could walk onto his arm punches. Thses guys who walked face first onto his fists made it look like he was some sort of non stop punching machine , but he really wasn't.

Fury with a 5 inch advantage in reach , better footwork , better defense and a higher ring IQ , boxes circles around Vitali on the outside. The short to close range battle is dominated by Fury who had even more advantages in speed and varied combination punching.

Its one dimension vs multi dimension. Its slick vs stiff . Its fast vs slow. Its Felix Sturm vs Billy Joe Saunders.
There is literally no argument for Vitali even being successful against Fury , never mind beating him. And @ the notion he could actually knock him out.

 

Ortiz was older when he easily pulled Jennings apart. WK was still prime when he fought Jennings. I remember the build up to that fight well and the notion was Wlad would breeze past Jennings with ease before dominating the division till he was 40 - 41.
This was the opinion of every Wlad fanboy at the time because the style he used to gain his success was always an old mans conservative style.
Jab , grab and repeat. Watch the Brewster and Jennings fights to see what happens to Clinchko when he's made fight within the rules.

 

I haven't seen anyone around here call them the #1 h2h heavyweight of all time maybe I missed it

 

Young?

 

The shark.... much slicker.... never stops moving.... very fluid.*


*sorry

 

No way could he walk through AJ or Wilder`s power shots, Leewis had him backing off at the end of their bout.

 

If Klit fought with his hands down he`d be knocked out early by AJ or Wilder.

 

You are comparing Lewis to AJ and WIlder, remember that. It's highly erroneous to assume that because Lewis did something, that these two would as well, due to their size moreso than capabilities shown as pros.

Lewis knew how to use his skill and size to his advantage over everyone. I don't think Aj or DW have that level of boxing IQ.