If Wlad beats Kabayel at the age of 50, how does it affect his legacy?

Let's say Klitschko is really coming back to face Agit Kabayel in the fight for the WBC title. If he wins and breaks George Foreman's record, how it would affect his legacy? Would you rate him higher on your HW ATG list?

 

Hypothetically speaking of course but probably number 3.

 

For me if Wladimir beat Kabayel at 50 this victory would be significant for his legacy. In my ranking of the best heavyweights of all time the younger Klitschko brother is in the top 15. If he beat Kabayel I'd probably put him in the top 10.

I'll add a thought, I hope to never see Kabayel-Klitschko and, if it were to happen, my prediction is that Wladimir would lose very badly.

 

Man I'd be rooting for Wlad all the way but let's be honest, he'd end up in hospital.

 

He struggled with Tony Thompson. Kabayel is a handful for Wlad in his prime. Sure his jab grab works well against that style with Kabayel is a beast.

 

Thompson was a tricky customer and Wlad knocked him out twice and did better than anyone who fought him up until he was 45 fighting Ortiz.

 

I would ask for stringent PED testing

Check hand wraps

Check the padding in the floor

Check for lifts in Waldo's shoes too

 

Did they do all of this for Foreman against Moorer?

 

Waldo

 

The only champion I could realistically See klitschko beating, with the performance of a livetime is gassiev. Or sanchez if he looks as bad as he did against kabayel, but the torrez fight looked different.

 

It would have the opposite effect actually. It would be an indictment on how bad the division is if a 50 year old that was 0-2 in his last two beat the # 2-3 HW.

It wouldn't raise Wlad's legacy, it would lower the entire era's even more.

 

Depends what else Kabayel goes on to do...

If Agit goes back to bums until he retires, it'd be seen as impressive (given Wlads age) but Kabayel would be seen as a massive hypejob with only one good win.

If Kabayel gets back in contention and beats a contender or two and proves he's definitely serious business? It'd propel Wlad way up the atg ranks.

 

Don't believe Kabayel's hype in this forum and in social media, he's mediocre at best.

If Klitschko still has his destructive right, he would KO Kabayel easily even now.

 

How would lifts make a difference?

 

The 2nd fight was routine. Thompson was kinda competitive in the first but he was still conformably losing then he got stopped.