Ali was one foot in the garbage disposal by 77/78, but he still would beat Foreman via the Jimmy Young Rule.
Arreola was undefeated and a certified top ten guy when he fought Vitali. Solis was undefeated and the best am to ever turn pro at heavyweight....
I'll give you Hide. The others, no.
A lot of those guys were still trash and you just moved the goalposts.
Always loses to Zhang though.
Nobody he beat was seen as a top fighter.
Sanders was red hot and a much more interesting challenge than Byrd. And it was good enough for The Ring. 3/12. Compare that to Holmes who...
Sanders, Peter, and Adamek were all “best available.”
I believe he was in after getting robbed against Helenius.
This is pretty fair. I think Solis was better than Chisora but he twisted his knee whereas Vitali hurt his shoulder in the Chisora fight.
Joyce wasn’t always bad just bc he got beaten up in his late thirties and fell off a cliff afterward.
Holmes had various chances to fight Thomas and didn’t want it (openly, if I remember correctly).
Doesn't work that way. Beating McCall will never equal beating Lennox Lewis.
We both know Tyson was going to find his way into the tournament either way and clean up.
He did try to win the unified titles. Tyson knocked him out.
