more passionate?? Sad part is, I bet 9 out of 10 dont even know europeans are dominating upper weight classes, or who the Klitschkos are. Europeans only care about soccer, hockey, f1, ad rugby. the rest dont get mainstream media attention
There was no money for east euro's in the past, but Waldimir won the gold in 96, so thats before 2006, Povtekin won in 2004, thats before 2006!
So 2 Gold medals in over 100 years. Wow. Amazing. And the last Gold medals were acheived when boxing in he US was irrelevant. The Tyson era was over.
you call that an era?? He was a bum beater! a champion in the weakest era of boxing, the 80s! And he got his ass handed to him by every fighter that had a pulse
After going to prison and being washed up, prime Tyson KO's K2, I respect Wlad and Vitali, but styles make fights and I think he's too fast/explosive and too powerful for them to handle. Post jail Tyson, yeah he was overly average, pre Spinks Tyson ****s them up.
With all due respect,Leon Spinks never fought at lightheavy.You're thinking of his brother,Michael.By the way,when Ali fought Leon,he was beyond shot to ****.But I'm pretty sure that you already know that.And just for the record,anyone that gets ktfo against Hasim Rahman,stopped by drug addict Oliver McCall and goes life and death with Ray Mercer(whose primary weapon that he used to terrorize Lewis-the left jab-was inferior to Ali's)does not beat Muhammed Ali.AND Lewis' resume is NOT better than Ali's.
Wow,using Leon is a poor example considering Muhammed lost to him when he was a corpse.And Ali lost to Smoking Joe and Norton after his 3 year ban which occured during his prime.But I would like to add....Hmm I could see Hasim and Oliver......knocking Lenny Lewis out.....just to name a few.
he KOs nobody! He has the power to trouble Wlad, but look at the Lennox fight! Lennox doesnt have an iron chin either, still he humilited Tyson. Tyson is a bully, but Vitali is even a bigger one! Remember Tyson being pushed around in the ring by a big Lennox? Prime Vitali would pummel that hype job into the ground
They Tyson who fought Lewis was nothing even close to prime or anything of the such. He was a shell of himself by this time.
I did misspeak, which was pretty obvious, but that aside I'm hardly a child, Pre Prison Tyson KO's K2, post prision Tyson not happening. I would actually say more specifically pre Spinks Tyson, would beat them both.
i don't think it's just american heavyweights, heavyweight in general imo is usually always a bore, i'd rather watch cruiserweights, jr. middles, etc. 9x out of 10.
sidenote, one of my favorite things about boxing is that it's an international sport, a guy from tanzania, us, poland, russia, etc. can all be in the top 5 and compete.