Can anyone make a reasonable case for Wlad Klitschko beating Max Baer??

... No, not really. Abstract at best

 

Gee that’s a big hurdle better than a wrestler. Does he get the mob fixes like Carnera got or to fight guys he has 70 pounds on?
Seriously Carnera was a circus strong man who was considered 100 years ago to be a giant like no one had ever seen. Today we have super athletes (unlike Primo) who are highly trained as boxers (unlike Primo) who he would not have a size advantage on. The only thing Primo had was massive size advantage on his opponents without that he was helpless.

 

Wlad would defend against Baer and then after he knocked him out the usual suspects would call Baer a no-hoper bum and when is Wlad going to stop fighting midgets and take on big men with a punch ....

 

3 seconds into round 1...

"Yo! Someone pick Wlad up!!"

 

Primo is still a very impressive athlete by modern standards even if he was a pretty poor boxer.

 

Max was a big puncher and that's all. Wlad was a skilled boxer who delt with big punchers before. Wlad in 8.

 

think you got it backwards mate.

 

Wladmir Klitschko is so underrated it's absurd.