Vitali Klitschko's power.

I honestly don't know, but theoretically, he could have been, since boxrec.com only gives us the annual ratings.

So, he might have crept in for a month and then dropped out the next.

I can only imagine it's his win over De Leon in August '94 that facilitated that placement, however brief this might have been.

 

What are you not getting? The ranking is below. Why would you include an annual list?

https://archive.ringmagazine.com/PD...olumnName=filename&recordId=911&zoom=page-fit

 

This link leads to nothing. When was he ranked? If it was before Wlad and you prove it I'll be happy to say I was wrong.

 

I cant see it. He got smoked by Tubbs a few months before and DeLeon wasnt even fighting journeymen at that point....more like ham and eggers. Like I said though, if I was wrong I'll be happy to admit it.

 

Prime Lewis would beat Vitali Klitschko on cuts or decision. He was past his peak and was still able to hang in there weather the storm and unleash massive artillery on Klitschko and threaten his whole career via eye injuries

Klitschko had good power but not great. Im not really apart of the wider debate here, Klitschko could punch but It is highly unlikely he would ever knock out a focused Lennox Lewis. I am tired of this nonsense narrative that Lewis got lucky and Vitali would beat him under any other conditions besides what actually happened in real life. It is ridiculous, Vitali lost to a faded Lewis. Vitali at his best was excellent but these agendas have to stop, they make Vitali fans look totally desperate

 

So Usyk tore half of Kabayel's face off and had officials fearing for his eyesight and health? Maybe i missed that.

Your level of cope is embarrassing. You excused Vitali for missing various ranked contenders because his brother beat them. You project that fighting them would not have been good for K2 promotions. You fantasise that Vit almost knocked out Lewis. You claim Vit is 6"8. You claim McCall and Rahamn don't hit harder than Vit because you can't go off "one fight". This is despite Vitali landing his best punches and Lewis going nowhere, not even sagging. You then allude this was because Lewis was heavier and it was his strategy. Then you claim Vitali didn't commit 100% to his punches because he was winning! You project that Rahman and McCall were throwing their hardest punch because they couldn't outbox Lewis.

On top of this you allude Bryd got knocked out by Ike because Ike wasn't as tall as Vit LOL. Then you allude the Wlad doesn't know his own height, and maybe doesn't know how to convert metric to inches.

You also label Lewis' wife "ugly". She was runner up in Miss Jamaica and was modeling and doing fashion shows when they met. Maybe you should post a pic of your wife/husband and show us what ugly doesn't look like.

That's just your highlights. The amount of cope in all the above is, quite frankly, astonishing. I've seldom seen so much from one person in a single thread. Can you not see how ludicrous all that is when it's laid out together in front of you? I'm playing nice here, I'm not always the most politically correct poster.

 

Wow......what a beat down!!

 

When was Sanders top 10 ranked by the Ring before beating Wlad?

Corrie Sanders was not ranked by The Ring magazine in 1994. [1, 2]
During that specific year, the South African heavyweight lost his unbeaten professional record after being knocked out by Nate Tubbs on May 20, 1994, which kept him out of the global top 10 ratings. [1, 2, 3]
Here are a few additional details regarding the situation:

• Initial rise: He did not enter The Ring magazine’s top 10 heavyweight ratings until later in his career. [1, 2]
• Signature win: His highest profile achievement came in 2003 when he stopped Wladimir Klitschko to win the WBO title, earning The Ring magazine's Upset of the Year. [1]
• Top 10 debut: Sanders finally challenged for The Ring magazine’s vacant heavyweight title against Vitali Klitschko in April 2004, where he was ranked highly enough to contend for the belt. [1, 2]

 

Well said!

 

I think it's pretty obvious. Everyone who fought or sparred with Vitali said his single punch wasn't very powerful, but each one was devastating, and he landed a lot of them, from different angles, not necessarily in accordance with boxing's art. This made him a true knockout machine, even though fighters like his brother or Lennox had much more powerful single punches.
Vitali likely didn't hit as hard after the 2000 fight with Chris Byrd, but he continued to improve his skills. He was undoubtedly also very strong, as was evident, for example, during the clinch fight with Lewis. Look at what happened in the sixth round.

The cut eyelid and swelling look very impressive, but I saw a crushed Lewis who gave it his all and returned to his chair with relief, and a furious Vita, ready for further war, who retained much more strength and determination to continue.

Lewis beat Vitali so badly that the WBC ordered a rematch six months later, and fans were ecstatic about the fight. After this decision, Lewis decided to retire.

Let me say right away that if the doctor hadn't stopped the fight after the sixth round, I think a Lewis victory is very possible. It would have been very likely to end his career, and it would have been much worse for Lennox's resume. Today, we look at Vitali as a terminator who, at the age Lewis was when he retired, returned immediately after a four-year layoff, regained his belt, broke the punches record in the fight against Arreola, and looked better than ever. However, if he had been knocked out by Lewis and ended his career, he would be remembered today like Briggs, Botha, Grant, and Golota. After all, when he faced Lewis, they still called him Quitchko, the guy Byrd forced to submit.

 

Top Notch!!!!!

 

Corrie Sanders was ranked #10 by the Ring magazine in their September 1994 edition, mate. Here's a link to that edition- https://archive.ringmagazine.com/PDFViewer/web/viewer.html?file=/Filename.ashx?tableName=ta_ringmagazine&columnName=filename&recordId=911&zoom=page-fit

The Ring magazine recently made all historic monthly magazines available via the archive section of their website. You have to sign up to access them, though it's free. I'm unsure if you'll be able to access the above link to their September 94 edition if you've not signed up, but, if not, it takes c.5-minutes total to sign up - https://www.ringmagazine.com/magazine

 

I agree that it doesn't make sense. But you can get the occasional odd listing where the Ring ratings panel get a bit desperate/undecided - typically, looking for a number-10 placement. Or they make a mistake.

Still, I am not trusting an archive source (URL) that displays nothing on screen and, even if we were to give 'the information' the benefit of the doubt, it was only momentary, barely a blip on the radar.

It was also eight or nine years before Wlad selected Sanders as a WBO defense.

By that time, Sanders was out in the wilderness (on the golf course); his meaningful career having been effectively over - and since his 2000 loss to Rahman.


EDIT: I have discovered a workaround for the URL issue.

Try this link instead:

https://archive.ringmagazine.com/Fi...ringmagazine&columnName=filename&recordId=911


Still not sure what the root cause for the issues is, but it is something to do with how your browser likes to view PDF files.

 

Oh, JT... ... ...

...That's not just taking the ice cream away from a whining child; it's pushing it in their face, to boot!!