Vitali Klitschko vs “The Golden era”? Contenders?

So a 38 year old inactive out of shape Sanders knocks out Byrd in the 1st round ? I don't think so.

Byrd would beat Peter, Adamek, and the version of Sanders that Vitali fought.

Adamek and Peter are not upper echelon Heavyweights as I said before and neither would be in the top 10 of their era.

 

I was at that fight. Vitali walked through hell and had to beat the crap out of Sanders to get a ref stoppage. Sanders was faster than Byrd with his hands and feet, regardless of the scale. Byrd would have nothing for him.

Byrd wouldn’t complete Vitali’s title reign. He wouldn’t even make it half way. He was barely leaving with the title during his brief reign with a fake title.

Adamek and Peter were near the top of the division and Vitali dominated both of them while pushing forty.

 

Sanders was a natural who could do a bunch of things wrong and still make it work. When he fought undersized guys like Cooper and Al Cole, he generally knocked them out of the ring. Chris Byrd usually looked bad against guys with handspeed and he had nothing to keep Sanders off. It’s an easy pick.

 

Rahman beat a younger fitter fresher Sanders in a war and stopped him earlier than Vitali did.

 

Considering Sanders only briefly made the top 10 rankings and was 1-2 against top 10 rated fighters I disagree it's a foregone conclusion especially against the version of Sanders that Vitali fought.

 

Go find the sequence where Vitali tore his shoulder and get back to me.

 

Feel like that’s mostly a Facebook boomer thing, pretty much the only place you’ll see people say that shavers or Lyle dominate today.

Nostalgia is powerful, we just gotta wait a few decades.

 

It was a great slugfest one of the best Heavyweight slugfests of the past 25 years.

I seem to remember Sanders gassing yes but the thing I remember most about the fight is when both fighters came close to scoring simultaneous knockdowns that's engrained in my memory.

 

Norton has a decent shot due to styles, Vitali is difficult for any heavyweight in history but he is a bit overrated. I'll stand on that

 

70's heavyweights are possibly over-romanticized by some. But i didn't know the Klitschko's had their own two-man issue of fantasizing.. pumping up Purrity now?

 

I tore something in my should that I assume was my rotator cuff years back. I did it sliding head first into a base and my hand kind of got stuck on middle of the base. Throwing baseballs, footballs, and punches never did anything bad to my shoulder.

Here’s a classic shoulder injury:

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Korbov lands a weird punch and tears up his shoulder. The point of contact causes the ligaments to jam up. That’s what I think of when I hear about shoulder injuries, not missed punches.