Vitali Klitschko vs Floyd Patterson

Don't do this to me, Fogey...Patterson is one of my all time favorites and he gets bummed in H2H threads like this.

 

I love Floyd, but Vitali would have been a disaster for him..Vitali would have stopped him in 6..wearing him down rather than blasting him out a knckdown would occur in the 4th, a very systematic beatdown would have ensued thereafterwards witH VK'S awkward style assisting him frustrating Floyd from being able to connect, and the overwhelming size and strength advantage of VK would have come into play..a rough night for Floyd, who would have been rescued by the ref after two more kds in the 6th.

 

I don't think there's anything to go on really. Patterson never fought anyone near as big as Vitali. He does have the speed and during the later part of his career the cleverness, but 6'7 250 lbs vs 6'0 190 lbs is quite a ridiculous size mismatch.

 

V.K. runs Patty's ass right outta the ring........ Not much of a contest here...... Patty has skills, but is too small and weak to go anywhere with Klit.......

MR.BILL

 

Yeah, really. I kinda hated to speculate on this one, and I truly believe that Floyd would have been more suited to the cruiserweight division in this day of supersized guys like the Klitschkos. That's what the weight divisions are for, afterall.

 

if floyd could reach ingo with that left hook, i'm inclined to think he could reach vitali. having said that, he's not starching klitschko and though i feel he'd have some success early on with his movement, much faster hands and combinations, the size is too much. by the fourth he's basically lunging in and vitali starts timing him, using the range and breaks him down as red cobra described

 

Vitali by ass whooping and KO!

 

Floyd Patterson vs Floyd Mayweather. Who wins?

 

Pound for pound, Patterson is the better fighter, but that doesn't help him much here. He is over matched physically in this one, and honestly I can't think of anything that he can do to over come it.... Even if he spent the better part of a year training, watching films of Klitschko and had the best man in his corner for the job, i still think he loses... Some matches just shouldn't be made..

 

We take Floyd Patterson, give him the same modern benefits/nutrition/supplements that Spinks/holyfield/roy jones recieved..and put him in the ring with Vitali. Patterson would give Vitali a schooling at a rock solid 210-215lb. Patterson with his handspeed and far superior technique would hit vitali at will with his combinations, and duck and slip vitali's shots under his peek a boo and land leaping right hands and powerful left hooks to the head. patterson by unanimous decision. Vitali doesn't have that one punch power to really threaten floyd early. vitali is more of an arm puncher who wears his opponent down. Vitali doesn't deal well with adversity and pain, so patterson might stop him late..if vitali finds himself getting broken down.

 

Bad match up for Patterson. Vitali via early KO/TKO.

 

Today on ESB, I learned that because Floyd could reach a 6 foot nothing plodder he could connect against a 6-7 athletic freak who possesses not just one punch but three.

I am enlightened.

 

I wouldn't call Johansson a plodder. He was more "fleet-footed" than Vitali although not nearly as tall. That's the problem, Patterson never fought anyone close to 6'7 in height.

 

I think Floyd Patterson is the best H2H Cruiserweight ever.


the keyword being cruiserweight.