Is Vitali the greatest heavyweight ever?

Yeah:hey

Have you?:think

 

Honestly, I'm having a hard time contemplating whether the words I read are merely an act of sarcasm...

 

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me...will follow the thread tho as it has entertained me whilst at work...you put a smile on my face kid :good

My top ten ATG


1.Bert cooper
2.Nicolai Valuev
3.Ruslan Chagaev
4.David Price
5.Tyson Fury
6.Seth Mitchell
7.Derek Chisora
8.Ivan Drago
9.Clubber Lang
10 Rocky Balboa


Ali doesn't make my top 20 **** poor technique in my opinion, compared to the balletic skills of "Sugar" Nicolai Valuev

Frazier comes in at 47 as he never fought anybody who had the training methods of Ivan Drago!



Holmes is at 53...Tyson Fury is a bigger better version of him with fewer fights.:deal

 

Agreed 100%.gooddeal:gooddeal

 

This should be in the lounge, the OP is joking...right?

 

****ing **** list:roll:

 

nah man unfortunately this guy's serious. he hasn't seen one boxing match aired before the lewis klitschko matchup

 

Technically flawed? How does a fighter that's "Technically flawed" win nearly every round he's ever fought his entire career?

 

he is not, whatever he does he will always have a glass skin
and the top boxers in history would take advantage of that

 

There is no way Tyson is better than Holyfield. Holyfield accomplished twice what Tyson did. Lennox is above Vitali by far too. Beating Sosnowski and a 70 year old Briggs means very little.

 

Vitaly's size (and decent athletic ability for that size) puts him right there w about anybody. but no not top ever - that's crazy. he's been convincingly beating (and sometimes beating up) his competition for around a decade or so (with time off in there), but it is really difficult to find a victim who wasn't a product of being there b/c the division has been ****. obviously lennox is an atg and wasn't all that faded (but a lil given the age and some inactivity) but other than that who do you use as a measuring stick? to me guys like old briggs, arreola, peter, adamek, kingpin, sos, chisora and a few more are b - level hws or possibly worse and wouldn't even contend in a divsion as bad as the 80's. Young Byrd and Sanders are probably the best other than LL comp that comes to mind.

Vitaly is great and he's still beating these b and c level guys at 40 and that cannot be too discounted. Again he'd give almost any hw ever fits cuz of his smarts and size, but as far as atg top 10 ranking (or even h2h) it's hard to get too carried away b/c other than longevity and a wild slugfest w lennox and sanders what do we have to go by?

 

Vitali isnt even the best heavyweight of this era, forget about greatest of all time.

Holmes-Tyson-Holyfield-Lennox-Wladmir Klitskcho

 

No. His style is joke. He moves like robot. Only because he don't have real opponents, he looks unbeatable.

 

Vitali is an ATG without a doubt but I don't know about the best ever! He's in the top 10 though..