Enery's Ammer as it was known was one of the best left hooks in history. Ali was showboating & got caught. he was lucky it landed right on the bell. I was at that fight as a kid yelling for Henry to silence the Louisville Lip. I left that fight a lifelong fan
the Sniper only got a title shot (and weirdly enough a title!!) because wlad was craap a champion enough to select a retired nobody for a title defence - a first in HW history. If that first wasn't bad enough, he then lost badly IN SECONDS and then as a followup in terror avoided a rematch with the aged faded slugger. An unprecedented treble.
Hate threads like this, the simple fact is you have to throw the modern fighter back to the time of the other fighter. Wlad would be smaller, slightly shorter, not as strong or as muscular. That being said the 6'4'' 230lb prime Wlad would most likley defeat the prime Ali. If it was prime Foreman Wlad would get his ass kicked in 2-4 rounds. Styles make fights kids.
Have you ever seen Henry Cooper? That bum lost a quarter of his fights, and was a walking stick. He was 185 lbs! No skills, no power, nothing. Ali had 30 !!!!!!!!! lbs of advantage over him! And he knocked Ali senseless. Joe Frazier? He was a fat, slow, small, light, weak cruiser. He was featherfisted, as his ko percentage and his inability to stop even complete bums proves. Yet he put Ali on his fat ass with single, telegraphed left hooks. Norton schooled Ali, but was robbed. Dwarf Jimmy Young completely won their fight, and got royally screwed by the judges in one of the worst robbery ever. Just look at the fight. If you manage to not fall asleep. Meanwhile, every time Wlad fights someone around the size of Ali (but with a better phisique, speed, stamina), he's "fighting cruisers" and "has an unfair size advantage".
Why exactly would Wlad be smaller? Wlad was raised in a cold ass thirld world country. I doubt he even got vaccinated as a child. While America, in the '70s, was the most advanced country in the world, and the only one that could provide so much food so cheaply to everyone. Ali and Foreman would have been even smaller, had they lived in freeze cold thirld world Ukraine. 6'1 Foreman and 6'0 Ali, without their big size advantage over the skinny fat cruisers that infested the division at those times, would have been nobodies.
Have you ever seen Ross Purrity? That guy lost over half his fights. Purrity TKO 24-0 Wlad. 19-0 Clay TKO Cooper atsch
Athletes get much better over time. Compare like swimming, running, weighlifting records compared to modern records and look at the difference. Wlad is so much bigger, stronger, taller, heavier, more powerful punhcer, etc,etc. Jesse Owens would absolutely get destroyed by Usain Bolt. Owens might be in like the top 100 now.