Cause Vitali entered the scene when Wlad was 1 win away from becoming THE champ. Wlad and Chagaev were 2 best heavyweights that emrerged after...
Vitali missed 715 punches against Johnson. And Johnson was no Young.
Vitali vs Lewis is an exception. Most of Vitali's fights are snoozefests. Wlad at least had punching power than made his fights interesting.
That's the lowest acceptable number.
Historically, champions with the highest number of title defences fought in eras considered weak: Louis, Holmes, Wlad. So we would need to have a...
Depending on how you see Wlad's status in the division he had either 18, 13 or 11 defenses. Still a lot. And he did beat 15 Top 10 guys over the...
You should become a poet or sth. Impeccable description.
Yes, and stops him late.
Ok, so the third.
...do you think he would take the rematch? Kenny was his cryptonite and he did whatever he could not to face him for the fourth time. Would the...
Not in my Top 25, so hard to say.
Tyson in the second Holyfield fight.
Yeah, but we have to look through the lense of what they actually did in their eras, not what they could have done if they were in each other...
Sanders would be a stylistic nightmare for Norton. But, on the other hand, Young might have been a stylistic nightmare for Vitali and Norton beat...
Hasim Rahman. After he retired and came back, he wasn't the top dog, so he wasn't chased as much as Wlad was.