You have the correct assessment of the era. The flaw of this era is that too many contenders did not engage often enough with each other. It’s not...
No. Simply not durable enough. If you freeze frame every fight he could stand a chance although I wouldn’t bet on it, but in the real world he’d...
Willard looked quality against an older Johnson. That version of Willard may take Jack the distance but he would be badly busted up and lose wide...
If we’re simply discussing title reigns I would have to choose Wlad. 1. Wlad unified - Larry Never did 2. Wlad was extremely dominant barely...
He was real good but he isn’t top 3 on Wlad’s resume. As others have stated his peak was short. (But he looked great for a time). He did beat Ruiz...
9/10 is right. There was nothing more he could have done shy of fighting his brother, but we know that would never happen. Rightfully so. He...
I picked him for the 2020’s - his two fight series with Joshua occurred in 2019. So far and we’re nearly in 2025 - he’s fought a total of 3x...
1990s Shannon Briggs 2000s Chris Arreola 2010s Deontay Wilder 2020s Andy Ruiz
Holmes for me. Just more depth after Foreman gets the top win with Frazier.
Maskaev Rahman for me. The way he fell out was cinematic
Lewis dropped one belt I recall to swerve southpaw Chris Byrd.
I stated that the Byrd win, was a good win relative to the point of Povetkin’s career. Relative is the key word. It was Povetkin’s 14th pro fight....
Yes Some guys look awful - De La Hoya, Jones in his first fight with Tarver generally harder to shed the weight older. Perez was a little younger.
Yes Byrd looked awful the weight drain ruined him. Straight right after straight right he was wobbled had no legs. 37 pounds to drop was way too much.
My initial post said it was a good win for Povetkin relative to that stage of his career. Nothing changes my initial feelings. Byrd was still...
