Top 20 H2H heavyweights in history?

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  1. OddR

    OddR Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Yeah I meant overall there I sometimes tend to stay away for H2H lol
     
  2. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Pulev would be favored over every Lewis opponent you just listed except for Vitali and Ruddock.
     
  3. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Loyal Member

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    Ok, so answer the same question I just asked the other poster....who were the physically impressive guys that Wlad actually beat?
     
  4. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Loyal Member

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    Because he didn;t fight the most dangerous fighters at his best.
     
  5. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Loyal Member

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    Lol! I like Pulev a lot, but no, he wouldn't. Besides, he was not a big puncher. And what about Vitali and Ruddock? They just don't count because they don't fit in your paradigm?
     
  6. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Not sure what is meant by “impressive.”

    Pulev and Thompson had size and talent.

    Haye is in the conversation for best handspeed and power combo for a guy that size.

    Peter was a truck.
     
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  7. OddR

    OddR Well-Known Member Full Member

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    If you talking about quality that's different to the part about size which is the only section I quoted.

    I agree Lewis top win which is Vitali is the best win either had over a bigger fighter.
     
  8. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Not sure if Pulev even cracks the top five for Wlad wins. That doesn’t erase it or mean it’s worth less.
     
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  9. themaster458

    themaster458 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Sure he did he just dominated them all something Lewis couldn't do.
     
  10. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Loyal Member

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    Physically imposing. Guys who challenged Wlad in terms of height, weight, strength and punching power. Wlad could not outgut other fighters like this.

    Pulev and Thompson were big buy light-punching.

    Of course quality matters.
    You said his name, not me.
    He beat guys at his best were not guys with the tools to physically challenge him, like Sanders. That is my point.
     
  11. ikrasevic

    ikrasevic War for Souls Full Member

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    Lewis
    Holmes
    Ali
    Bowe
    Louis
    Liston
    Wlad
    Vitali
    Foreman
    Tyson
    Holyfield
    Usyk
    Fury
    Ibeabuchi
    Frazier
    No order
     
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  12. themaster458

    themaster458 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    And Lewis did? Fact of the matter Wlads opponents were bigger then Lewis’s
     
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  13. catchwtboxing

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    Physically imposing. Guys who challenged Wlad in terms of height, weight, strength and punching power. Wlad could not outgut other fighters like this.

    Pulev and Thompson were big buy light-punching.
    Wlad's quality opponents were much smaller than Lewis, and I have already cited the specific names.
     
  14. OddR

    OddR Well-Known Member Full Member

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    In that case I am agreeing Vitali is the best win both had so in terms of beating a bigger elite guy. I was just saying Wlad did beat a number of big guys which implied in your post he didn't and even most the guys who he did beat they aren't they were still pretty big compared to most past heavyweights even if they were smaller than him.

    Obviously Wlad didn't quite pull it off vs AJ which would have made it closer.
     
  15. brb

    brb Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Wlad's quality opponents were much smaller than Lewis, and I have already cited the specific names.[/QUOTE]

    You're 100% wrong on this. If you take the heights of each of the title fight opposition - Wlad's opponents are taller than Lewis'. It's not that much, but don't try to fib and get away with it.
     
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