Except he didn't. Stiverne and Ortiz are the only ones you can make a reasonable case for being top 10. Tua has Rahman and Oquendo. Plus you...
Ike's best wins are better than Vitali's and he beat a guy who actually beat Vitali. Byrd and Tua are not exactly legends but I would still put...
Realistically though there are other fighters from that era I would pick to beat everyone Vitali beat. I'd say at the very least Povetkin, Ortiz,...
One thing I find kind of curious is that the same people who dismiss Vitali based on his resume criticize Wlad for not facing him and suggest that...
who wins over 12
I think being badly out of shape and extremely inactive were more of a problem than the Tyson fights. Plenty of fighters bounce back from kayo...
Morrison couldn't even beat Ross Purrity and got taken out by Mercer and Bentt. You don't have to rate Ruddock highly to think he would have beat...
Prior to the 1990s marital **** was legal in some states. That's way worse than robbing liquor stores in my book. We are talking about a society...
What society deems wrong is constantly changing so that's a silly argument. The vast majority of people prior to the 2000s in western democracies...
Who wins over 12?
Norton was at best slightly past it vs Shavers. Immediately prior he gave Holmes a good fight. Throwing the fight out as totally irrelevant...
Given the decisive nature of the losses and the point in his career we have to reasonably assume they would have beaten him prime for prime. He...
The Shavers and Cooney blowouts overwhelmingly suggest Norton just didn't deal well with big hitters regardless of...
Tyson has a significantly deeper resume than Foreman though. Take away his best win and you have considerably more depth than Foreman has....
His wins aside from Frazier are pretty unexceptional. I don't rate wins over Lyle, Norton, Chuvalo as all that impressive. Lyle got schooled by...
