Vitali Klitschko vs “The Golden era”? Contenders?

He beats them all by knockout I don't think any fighter you mentioned could beat Vitali at his best barring an injury which he was always suseptible to

 

Do we often hear that? I personally can't recall ever hearing that but I haven't really been active here in awhile and I also zone out during heavyweight threads. Anyways the way to properly challenge this claim is to pick one of the guys mentioned, look at all the "eras" (How you define those eras will depend on the person) and see if there's an era where the selected boxer would not be able to beat any of the champions of that era.

 

Anyways I'm not a h2h expert if such a thing exists but I would favor him to win all of those matches. However as I mentioned earlier in the "Can Liston do Louis' title run?" thread, this means basically nothing because the version of Vitali we're using for this thread that never ages and never gets injured did not exist.

 

I'm part of gen Z so I personally haven't heard that phrase. I don't think it's accurate at all but mostly because I can't think of an era where it would be true. I could be blanking out on an obvious answer but imagine an era where all of the top 12 or so could have been champions in ANY other era, not just most eras. That just seems very unlikely no matter the era. It's also a pointless phrase because you don't need it to explain why Lyle made Ali struggle. I imagine most people can tell that mid to late 70s Ali isn't peak and/or prime Ali. If someone were to reject that conclusion I'd need a pretty good argument from them explaining why.

 

He beats them all, most of them by TKO...

 

for such picks to be viable you can only line up the Really Tall ones to compete with the S-HW's.

all regular size guys would be today's Cruiserweights and the more leaner & lighter among them, would be today's S-MW's & L-HW's.

comparing Era's with 17 Weight Divisions and Taller Bigger guys fighting & competing DOWN in Weight, is NOT the Same Weight Division in a Past Era.

i.e RJJ and BHop are NOT Fighting Tony Zale and Co... NO!

they are Fighting Billy Conn and Co and finishing at HW against Louis and Co.

so many people just talk, post and roll on as if these recent Decade Taller Bigger fighters are the same Stature to yesteryear's Shorter Lighter Men - NO they are NOT!!!

 

He could have problems with Jimmy Young like he did with Byrd.

 

He got injured because Byrd made him swing at air. Young could do the same thing.