It's top 5 over the past 30 years. And, if you think Holmes is overrated, provide your critieria and explain how he comes up short.
He is HW champion of the world with over 50 fights for ****s sake, not some early pro setting out along the path, he should be able to handle all styles.
7. Wlad was too tentative and seemed confused for the first few rounds but his experience and superior power and skills started to show by mid rounds. Awesome right hand to finish the show. Wlad has an advantage in that his corner people especially Manny are first rate. They tell him what he's doing right, what he's doing wrong and how to employ better strategy. Thompson's corner were bush league by comparison.
I think it's obvious to most that Wlad is handling all styles from the powerpunchers like Peter to slick counterpunchers like Iggy and all the others. Wlad beats all their butts with relative ease. This Thompson victory was no easy task. His chin and toughness were worldclass and he fought defensively making it hard for Wlad to look good. Still Wlad got that all important one-punch K.O.
Weird, I was thinking 6 too. He's got a 10 in him but he just doesn't seem willing to risk showing it.
Povetkin's got solid footwork but he moves forward at a slow pace. My guess is that Wlad backs up and jabs for the first 6 rounds. Then he moves forward and jabs for the next 4. And then proceeds to throw three right hands a round for the remaining 2 rounds. in other words get ready for another real boaring fight.
I'd say a 7. He did win the fight easily and eventually took the guy out. Yes it was boring as hell but that's the way it goes. He always fights the same way unless he's forced to do anything different.
A solid 7 for me. It wasn't the sharpest I've seen Wlad, but he still clearly beat a big, awkward southpaw worse than he's ever been beaten. I'm still keeping him in my P4P top 10.
Yep. Taking current accomplishments and head to head into account, it'd be unfair on my part not to include him. Him and Haye round out my top 10.