Prime Holyfield vs Wlad Klit

He had like 38 fights or so under his belt, was a pro since 96, which would make it 8 years he's been fighting in 03 when he fought Sanders and was WBO champ. Wlad was better in some things then, than he is now, and vice versa.

Wlad was prime when he fought Peter, Williamson, and Brewster, Emanuel was in the corner for all of those fights. He looked far from impressive, he was knocked down a total of 5 times, several panic attacks, and was knocked against Brewster. There is your prime Wlad.

 

Wlad is now better at the most important thing and the only thing that really matters - winning fights. So, his prime is now when he's the most successful than ever before.
Your hate for Wlad just never stops, right? Still crying over Sammy Peter, aren't you? You shoulda followed your buddy swedeone's path and left this forum. At least he was man enough to do that when proven completely wrong on Peter vs. Vitaly.

 

Your right about one thing, my hate for Wlad will never stop until he's knocked out cold and is forced to retire, and even then I will be around to set the record straight when it comes to his career.

I admit I was wrong about the Vitali/Peter fight outcome, so what? Vitali was out for 3 and a half years, I figured he would be rusty enough to where Samuel would be able to take advantage of him. I respect Vitali as a fighter, always have.

 

You also claimed that Peter was really something - the next big thing. FAIL!
Peter's career highlight will be his loss to Wladimir and those 3 knockdowns (2 to the back of the head).

 

Wlad was excessively clinching, turning his back to his oppenent, and having numerous panic attacks. Wlad might of won the fight, but damn did he look fragile as hell doing it. You should watch a very interesting take on the fight thats currently on youtube, it chronicles Wlad's best moments enititled "Wlad the Octopussy", I think you will enjoy it, I know I did.:yep

 

We speak English here dumbass....................I guess you're still working on sentence formation. Good luck with that :good

 

Holyfield has never fought a fighter with a better, more powerful jab than Wlad's.

 

Very good post, you saved me a lot of typing.

 

Hard to say, but I have yet to find anyone (and we've had many threads on this) who can make a round by round tabulation of that second fight and give the nod to Holyfield. As far as I'm concerned they fought a total of 24 rounds and Lewis won about 17 of them. It's also hard to know with any certainty whether or not the scoring in the first fight, affected Lewis's strategy in the second one. Either way I scored the fight 8-4 for Lewis and if I give Holyfield the benefit of the doubt in every close round I still only get 7-5 Lewis. So no way no how did Holyfield win that second fight.

Prime for prime's a hard call. Either Lewis's style holds up and he wins a decision, or Holyfield outworks him and wins a decision.

 

Oh for God's sake.atsch:-(

 

Interesting thread this one. I'm not sure entirely sure how it would go prime against prime.

For me prime Holyfield - he had an erratic career - was the Holyfield that beat Tyson twice, not the one that beat Bowe. And a prime Wlad is the one of his most recent fights.

I favour Holyfield slightly to come out on top and win a decision. Sharp, leaping counters and a high workrate would be the order of the day. Plus the ability to absorb a lot of punishment on Holyfield's part. Evander by UD - much as I dislike the guy...

 

Who the hell can hate (or even dislike) a prime Holyfield? The guy was a warrior in every sense of the word.

 

Good fight... I would probably bet on Holy. He would get in there sooner or later.

 

Holy the best chin and heart in history vs no chin....no heart..........i say holyfield gets into a rythm late in the fight and stops wlad..........ala purritty

 

I agree with the chin, if a prime Lewis could not KO or even knock down a past it Holyfield he definitely wouldn't knock down a prime Evander. And a prime Evander would heart his way through the jab and outwork Lennox.