The Super Heavyweight Era

i do it theory.

i think its very unusual to have 3 fighters in 'one era' who are as intelligent in the ring as the klitschko's and lennox was.

its rare to find ringsmart fighters - truly ringsmart fighters - at any time.

 

For the most part, you are probably correct. A smaller fighter has to be exceptionally talented - like Evander Holyfield - to be competitive with these larger men. That's one reason why I rank Holyfield as the best HW since Holmes.

 

Negative. People must understand that guys like Vitali Vlad and Lennox are rare and the exception to the rule. There has been way more boxers of similar stats that have been monumental failures over the years. Boxing doesnt need a Super Heavy division.

 

Tyson would have ****ed up either Klit, so no I don't agree. I'm a fairly big Klit fan btw, like em both.

 

You cannot logically praise someone for lack of size, unless you give praise for lack of skill.

 

like pugilisticpower said, believe it or not, the average eastern european man is huge... and if they become athletes, they become even more huge!.. thing is, most of these fighters couldnt be pros till after 1991 ... think about it, you have a program with very good fighters who couldnt be pros cuz of politics.. and now, since like 95 and on (starting with the bros, and before them Golota and Maskaev) they've coming over and over and are quickly taking over the division.. these guys are huge, they grow up in palces where the temperature force the human body to adapt and become stronger and bigger.... I agree 6'3 and 6'4 fighters will be more and more common... and they will actually be on shape.. if you really research, most (if not all) of these eastern european fighters are really fitr and always great conditionated!! if there's one thing the soviets did well in the past (and ex-pats countries continue to do) is preach and teach conditionating AND DISCIPLINE

 

Lewis has the better chin then Wlad. Lewis face far more bigger punchers then Wlad and took those punches well except Rahman and Mccall.

 

Pre-prison Tyson vs. Vitali Klitschko would've been like something out of a dream.

I think Tyson beats him en route to a decision, but with some very, VERY interesting moments in between the first and 12th round.

 

Quite possibly, but proposing that you don't need to big in today's HW scene by stating an example of a once in a century type of fighter that might cause them problems is not a very convincing argument. I think we are more likely to see another 6'6" fighter of a similar standard to Wlad, Vitali or Lennox before we see another 5'11" fighter of Tyson's ability, in which case it is likely that you will need to be big to compete - being a moderately skillful but smallish HW will just not cut it if the dominant fighters are big and skillful.