Boxrec's Top 5 Heavyweights: Agree or Disagree?

Close to mine.

A+ Level
1. Wladimir Klitschko - Textbook fundamentals, huge power, extremely fit, speed, footwork, corner.
2. Vitali Klitschko - The Beast From the East: Consistent power, extremely fit, mobile, awkward style keeps opponents guessing. Forces exchanges.

A Level
3. Tomasz Adamek - Skilled, heart, great movement, good power for smaller guy. Courageous.

B+ Level
4. Eddie Chambers - Skilled, great fundamentals, rebuilding after KO loss to Wlad in 12th.
5. Alexander Poetkin - Great fundamentals, powerful, heartless, MIA
6. Robert Helenius - Robotic, powerful, good finisher

B Level
7. Chris Arreola - Very active, looking more fit, comes to fight, good fundamentals.
8. Tony Thompson - Big, comes to fight, has power, decent fundamentals.
9. David Haye - One dimensional, terrible fundamentals, **** resume @ HW.
10. Derick Chisora - Never seen him fight, so can't say much

 

I'd basically agree with this, though I'm not sold on Helenius being B+ level yet and I think Thompson might deserve to get bumped up.

 

Watch Helenius fight then get back to me. He is awful.

 

Where to start with that garbage.:roflatsch

 

haye is at the very least 4th best hw

 

Mine

A+ Level

Klitschkos

A Level but in the end a league below Klitschkos and the ones who would share the tilte if the klitschkos wouldnt be around...

Haye
Adamek
Povetkin
Chambers
Solis

B+ Level

Chagaev
Thompson
Arreola
Gomez
Peter
Boytsov
Helenius
Dimitrenko
Pulev (up to now)

 

Pretty much agree but I don't think Chambers deserves to be on that list but the problem is who do you replace him with? :huh

 

I have it the same as I had before the fight. Wlad, Vitali, Haye then Adamek.

 

¤ 1 Vitali
¤ 2 Wlad

 

OP, how can you list Chambers? His picture is in the dictionary, under "tomato can." He owns a t-shirt that says "Please hit me in the face. I'll just stand here flat-footed while you do it."

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1: Wlad
2: Vitali
3: Adamek

Then Helenius, Chagaev (getting old for that "Tyson" style, but still dangerous), and the excting-but unproven Povetkin must fight for spots 4 & 5. - and the loser gets to fight Princess Haye.

The only problem here is that Adamek really doesn't have the skills (nor size) to beat the Klits, and he's too old at this point for anyone to hope he improves with age. My guess is that, once Vitly beats the snot out of him, he will dissappear from most people's list entirely. for now, though ....


But heck, what do I know? Butterbean is still in my top 20! (g)

 

There may be a Chagaev - Povetkin fight in the works.

Does anyone know more about this?

 

A:
K2
Adamek (yet to be rated)
Povetkin (tba)
Haye (barely 'A')

B:
all the rest

 

Chisora is not B level, he's a fighter on the verge of the top 50 nothing more. Fury will likely beat him with ease on points.