Is Vitali Klitschko physically the strongest heavyweight champion in history

He's actually the weakest.

 

I was gonna say Foreman was the strongest to me.

 

No.

Next.

 

I wish boxing had a combine similar to the NBA / NFL. There are so many things that we don't know about boxers that we know about other athletes.

I would imagine Vitali is one of the strongest, but maybe not the strongest. He was pretty lean. I would imagine Wlad is probably a little stronger.

 

Its probably some random powerlifter with a 17-25 record.

Among mainstream HWs its definitely Ngannou if you count him. If you don’t then Vitali is a candidate for sure. As far as functional strength goes I personally think its 90s Foreman though.

 

Foreman said Liston was the strongest he'd shared a ring with from memory...?

 

Foreman was a 19 year old beanpole back then.

Liston would legit get manhandled against most modern HWs.

 

He definitely has the weakest bones and tendons.

 

What about Ike? He seemed to be strong af. Joshua too, he was holding his own in the clinches with Ngannou, while Francis was moving Fury like a ragdoll. Usyk is also lowkey very strong.

 

His relied less on his strength than you would think from a guy his size so it's hard to say but I imagine he was very strong.

 

No but Vitali had a high potential, and even if don't have the resume of Wladimir he is better than him.

Just his challengers in his period was weak or was forgotten very fast except Chisora and Corrie Saunders, but it's not his fault it was the poor era in Heavyweight.

 

Stronger physically than Foreman, Holmes and Lewis no.

But stronger physically and more potential in his style of boxing (and certainly) will win on his prime against his brother Wladimir, Joshua, Fury, Wilder, Riddick Bowe and Usyk yes.

 

If we could think of every HW champion? Then I'd probably say Sonny Liston mainly as Foreman said he was the only fighter stronger than him to the point that he could push him back easily and revert Foreman on the backfoot. Hard to say though, it could be Vitali to be honest, perhaps Lennox Lewis.

Of absolutely every HW? Probably someone silly like Eddie Hall or Ngannou.

 

Imagine saying that out of 2 guys that fought in the same era, the guy who beat less top 10 guys (6 to 15), has worse top wins, never beat a top contender, won less belts (1 to 3), defended them less times (10 to 18), was rated lower 8 years out of 11 when they fought together, wasn't universally recognized as the champ while the other was, is better. Crazy alternate reality that is.

And in the meanwhile, in the real world, he lost to Chris Byrd and his best wins are Corrie Sanders and Samuel Peter.