Vitali the greatest WBC Heavyweight Champion of all time?

the only proper decent fighter he fought though he lost though. Good fighter potentially denied the chance to be a "great" because everyone else was crap in his era

 

What a loada bollocks. "...everyone else was crap..."
Stupid,naive statement. Plus everyone fair-minded knows he retired Lewis,who was a very lucky man those cuts occurred that night.

 

Agree with this.

Vitali only got legitimately beat by Lewis (shoulder injury loss wasnt a real 'beating' of vitali IMO) who is probably the best h2h heavy of all time. Vitali is a h2h monster and in a better era may well have stated a good case for being an ATG at heavy.

 

the other way of looking at it is he fought a past prime lewis, who was far heavier than his normal fight weight and still couldn't beat him.

The post lewis era of HW's is crap, theres some decent fighters, but to be considered the greatest ever HW champion you need other great fighters to beat and neither klitscho can claim to have done this.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Billy_Goats_Gruff

 

He cheated against herbie hide, thumbed him in the eye then took advantage hide would have smashed him. Cost herbie his championship

 

Tko6

 

Uh...Lennox Lewis? Hello?

Vitali has ATG potential but Lewis was an ATG, arguably the best heavy ever.

 

LL was certainly the greatest HW in my lifetime (I am 41).

 

Vitali the best ever WBC champion