Neither has fought great fighters particulalry Wlad has fought the better of the two but has the three KO loses so thats got to damage it Bout the same for me
yeah but they both have fought everyone in the heavyweight division, whom everyone deemed top contenders, and continue to do so, i dont know if anyone here realizes that when joe louis was making his historic 25 title defenses his competition was called the bum of the month club because the competition was so so poor, however he is revered as a consensus top 3 atg heavy, all the klits do is beat and ussually stop every top contender out their, yet their criticized for not having tough enough competition, well gues what no heavyweight looks good in this era just like they didnt look good in louis's era, because louis and the klitschkos make them all look so bad.
yes i am comparing the klits to joe louis, they dont surpass louis by any stretch of the imagination, however they are both top 20 atg heavys easily, but they dont get credit on here , for 2 reasons they are white and foreign born
Wlad has the better actual resume, but I agree with Keure, between the two of them they have taken on and defeated every contender out there, with the exception of Valuev and Ruiz. Haye and Solis are the "new challengers" they come around every few years and when you look at both resumes, they usually get beaten by one of them.
Hard to say maybe Wlad has the better resume but i still think Vitali is the guy who will be more remembered in 20 years because of his KO rate, the fight with Lewis, his comeback and the fact that he was the first ex-soviet HW Champ
Vitali easily :smoke Why? He was much more dominating in his entire career, has lost only 2 fights due to very severe injuries (have you ever tried to move your arm around with the torn rotator cuff? Or to go jogging with THAT monster cut above the eye bleeding like a slaughtered pig?), has never ever been even really dented save knocked down, has the biggest KO ratio in history even after the Johnson fight, AND he faced one commonly accepted ATG in Lennox Lewis and gave him all (and more) then he could handle, practically retiring him for good. You say Wlad has faced better opponents, but he lost to some of them too, and he never proved himself against a fighter of the caliber of Lennox Lewis or other ATGs in their prime... But Wlad is a few years younger and still has time to achieve more merits then Vitali, so he might overtake him still, but at the moment I'd say Vitali has printed his stamp on the heavyweight history more firmly then Wlad.
WALD by far. VITLAY's resume isn't all that impressive. His best win is probably Sanders and his claim to fame for ages was losing to a Lewis who was on the decline.
i agree they might be top 20 heavyweights, but based on their domination, not the quality of their opponents, and i'm giving them the benefit of the doubt because honestly they simply have not fought anyone considered great. is arreola, peter, etc great? you should slap yourself if you think they are. and no, marciano is an atg and he's a whiteboy. so enough with the "oh, they don't give us credit because we white" excuses.
Wlad easily. Vitali's accomplishments: Hide, Donald, Sanders, Williams, Peter, Gomez, Arreola, Kirk and Kevin Johnson. He was the man in 2004/2005 and did a successful comeback at 37. That's it: he's probably a Top25 heavyweight of all time. Wlad's accomplishments: Schulz, Barrett, Byrd (x2), Botha, McCline, Williamson, Peter, Brock, Austin, Brewster, Ibragimov, Thompson, Rahman, Chagaev. He unified the IBF/WBO titles and also beat the WBA titlist. He has been on top since 2006...already 4 years.
