Do athletes get better and would Vitali be able to compete with Miller and Duhaupas? Or does he beat them up badly?
Someone spent too much time listening to the frankly laughable HBO efforts to pump up Miller last night. The guy is a 300lb swinging arm-puncher. He'd get stopped early and hard.
Athletes get better, but Vitali was elite, and he’s only really from the last generation. We’re not really going to see a huge curve in athletic improvements over such a short period. Also, Miller is way overrated. A Prime Briggs would destroy Miller.
Fight would look a lot like the Briggs, Peter or Arreola bouts, Vitali lurching about on the backfoot throwing jabs, uppercuts and awkward looking right hands while Miller plods forward trying to land his own telegraphed arm punches and getting his face turned into mush. No interest in seeing that one yet again.
40 year old unranked Briggs? Some facts ..Miller's punch out-put is historical. He throws more punches over 3-4 rounds than Briggs throws in 12 rounds. Miller matches up more to Vitali in terms of activity and work rate. He's not comparable to a washed up Sam Peter who was breathing out his mouth after 4 rounds of extremely low activity. . He has also has a better defense than those guys and his rolling / dipping at the waist as he comes in would make it hard for Vitali to land on him. Neither Arroela , Briggs or Peter knew anything about head and upper body movement. Miller would be the hardest opponent for Vitali outside Lewis and Byrd - who he lost against. Miller might be 300 pounds but his conditioning and punch out -put is there to see. The fight would look a lot like the Chisora bout with Vitali feeling unconformable with the pace and pressure.
Miller is not an athlete. He's a big lump who can take a punch and some ok boxing skills. Vitali would cruise to a stoppage. Possibly late on since Miller is durable.
He’s an arm puncher though, which exerts much less energy. Perhaps it was just me, but last night you could see when Miller was going to take most of a round off, as it usually followed when he had an active round. He’s not the worst in the world, but I’d wager that the likes of Vitali would pick him off. I mean, his head movement and punch output seemed to operate exclusively within themselves, in that he either came forward with little head movement, or he stood still, with lots of head movement, but little punch output.
You called it. He didn't outright say it... But still found a way to prop up Miller and bash Vitali. Absolute joke of a poster.