Vitali Klitschko Through Larry Holmes Title Defence's?

They all get smacked down, easily.

 

He wouldn't manage the longevity aspect period.

 

He’s the only guy to have a double digit title run that started in his late thirties.

 

If he stays healthy, Vitali cleans house...

 

Only Tim Witherspoon presents a problem.

 

Clears soundly

 

I agree with the majority, the jury is out whether he had the longevity and body to do it. I think the odds are he doesn't.

 

He fares reasonably well, but it's unlikely that he goes unbeaten.

 

He was also getting injured in every other training camp, including 3 back-to-back injuries when he was supposed to face Hasim Rahman.

 

I think Vitali would go through them all, most probably in more spectacular fashion than Holmes. A few Holmes did not fight may offer a bit more opposition like Pinklon Thomas and Greg Page and Coetzee, but those men were not always in shape or basically erratic and Vitali after Lewis was pretty consistent. The 15-rd. distance would probably also favor Vitali because of his consistent fitness, but I don't think he would need it vs the caliber of Holmes actual opposition. The negatives were injuries that Vitali sustained because of his long kick boxing career etc.

 

Holmes had finished his reign by that age.

 

Still had 2 years left of his reign. Holmes also started his reign 3 years earlier.

 

I don't think the thread is asking to match them age for age and assume that Vitali's back injuries would prevent him from from fighting Carl Williams or whatever.

 

Vitali's career was heavily impacted by his fragility and injuries, so we need to consider this, especially if he's fighting way better fighters than in reality.

 

Depends on your vantage point. He’s the only heavyweight of his age to have racked up a title reign that was anything like that, so must have had something going for him in terms of durability.