Would The Klitschko Bros,, Have Being Able To Get Any Type of Hold, In The 90 "s Heyday?

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  1. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    So, we know the Klitschko s came along at a perfect time for themselves, the 1990 s biggest names were gone or winding down.
    But what if they came up around the time of Bowe, Lewis, Holyfield etc.

    Question is, can they get established as champs for any length of time in that period?
    Indeed, become champs?
     
  2. Fogger

    Fogger Father, grandfather and big sports fan. Full Member

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    They certainly would not have been dominant like they were in the 2000s but they would have been very competitive and they would have become champs. Well, Wlad would have become a champ and I believe Vitali had a reasonable chance to grab a belt as well.
     
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  3. FastLeft

    FastLeft Well-Known Member Full Member

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    the era when Bruce Seldon & Oliver McCall & Frank Bruno & Francois Botha & old George Foreman & Michael Moorer were champions???
    oh
    I am not sure
     
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  4. FastLeft

    FastLeft Well-Known Member Full Member

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    the 1990 decade very overrateds of eras
    in the heavyweights
     
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    FastLeft Well-Known Member Full Member

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    the Klitschko were good enough to win belts for certain.
     
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  6. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    Cheers Fogger, good answer, as per.
    It was a good, tough era for the heavyweight s back at the start of the 90 s, they d have tougher fights.
    Can you imagine Vitali v a young Lennox circ 1995?!!
    Wlad up against Riddick around 93?!
     
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  7. Fergy

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    Even Bruno is dangerous then. He gave Lennox a hard fight.
    And perhaps yes we had no chin Seldon, but Lennox, Bowe, Holyfield even Golota?
     
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  8. Fergy

    Fergy Walking Dead Full Member

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    But hold em for a decade??
     
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  9. Fogger

    Fogger Father, grandfather and big sports fan. Full Member

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    Those would have been great fights!
     
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  10. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace

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    Wlad really struggles here.

    Bowe, Lewis and Tyson will all smash him in the 90s.

    But I favour him over Douglas, Moorer, Holyfield, Foreman and Briggs.

    Vitali, we know he loses to Lewis. I suspect he also loses Bowe and Holyfield.
     
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  11. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s banned Full Member

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    All of them are an abstract image of boxing created mostly by fools. All of the eras are overrated and mostly full of the type of cheap entertainment o found at a monster truck rally.
     
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  12. Grinder

    Grinder Dude, don't call me Dude Full Member

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    The huggy bear tactics don't work for Wlad against Lewis, Bowe, Holyfield, Tyson. Vitali on the other hand would be competitive but hard to say how well he would compete.

    That era was certainly stronger than the Wlad era and Wlad would not reign supreme.
     
  13. MAD_PIGE0N

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    Vitali is brave and hard enough for any era, bu can't tell the same for Wlad as he has the heart of a chicken and the chin of glass, I guess he would've been often sanctioned for excessive clinching on which he based his success, of course, politely assisted by referees and judges for never being sanctioned.
     
  14. Boxed Ears

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    The nineties had second-tier monsters like Botha, Schulz, Mercer, Byrd and Hide, and I don't see how they could get past guys like that, let alone the top guys who had serious fights with those dudes. If you've seen what guys like Mercer did in there with Lewis, you know Vitali would never hang with either one of them, let alone Wlad.
     
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  15. NoNeck

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    First off, Foreman wouldn’t go near either of them, so that chance for a title is off the table.

    On the other hand, Moorer would be helpless and Briggs would be beaten senseless. Douglas would play dead for a paycheck. That’s three potential easy routes to lineage.

    Holyfield doesn’t match up well with them and had a lot of off nights.

    Bowe didn’t like fighting old versions of Tubbs and Biggs. Vitali would be hell for him. Bowe also was easy to hit, and Wlad had bigger power and was bigger/stronger than anyone he fought (Gonzalez=trash). His prime was also quick. Bowe would be a doable path to lineage and wouldn’t be much of a threat to their titles by 95.

    Lewis is obviously the biggest problem, but was pretty flawed in the first half of the 90s. Tyson was dangerous but flawed.

    Basically, Vitali could beat anyone but would probably have issues with injuries and probably wouldn’t be favored over Lewis. If the matured version of Wlad came along at the right time, he could also beat anyone but I don’t think he’d be a twenty defense champ if he ran into a prime Lewis.
     
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