Hide was out of his depth at Heavyweight and it was only his ridiculous power and speed that got him as far as it did in the division. At Cruiser it's different though and while I agree with you to a degree on Bellew I really don't know how he'd get on with what Hide would bring to the table.
He was caught out trying to rig a fight. I actually think he was involved in some fixed fights. The punches he went down from with bowe were very dubious, some didn’t connect. Bowe himself looked at hide going down in disbelief
Watch Hide vs Vitali he goes down and in the replay there was no punch landed, obvioulsy a fix. i never thought there would be fixed fights in the modern era, but that proved it to me.