Does any active Heavyweight have a good resume?

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  1. SportsLeader

    SportsLeader Chilling Full Member

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    Apart from Holyfield of course.

    The resume's of todays Heavyweight champions and contenders are, for the most part, awful. Wlad, Vitali, Haye, Chagaev etc... All have terrible resumes, with very few, if any, good names on them. So I ask:

    Do any current heavyweights have good resume's?
     
  2. cesare-borgia

    cesare-borgia Übermensch in fieri Full Member

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    Its not their fault, adamek has a nice record.
     
  3. SportsLeader

    SportsLeader Chilling Full Member

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    He had a good run at Cruiser, that's for sure. At Heavyweight, it isn't exactly strong though.
     
  4. cesare-borgia

    cesare-borgia Übermensch in fieri Full Member

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    OW at heavy yeah then holyfield and maybe wlad a little bit if he can keep dominating.
     
  5. clyde

    clyde Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Barret....if he'd just won a few
     
  6. shaunster101

    shaunster101 Yido Full Member

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    No.

    Wlad's resume is good in that he's spent the last years knocking out top ten fighters, which is all he can do. It's just that you can't have a truly good record in this era because of the poor quality of the opposition. It's physically impossible to have a great record when your best win is against Chris Byrd. It's just the way it is

    Adding Haye, Povetkin and Adamek would definitely have improved it.
     
  7. cesare-borgia

    cesare-borgia Übermensch in fieri Full Member

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    problem is that povetkin and haye are ducking the hell out of him, adamek would be nice.
     
  8. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    A "good" resume? Sure. I think Wlad's is "good". Holyfield? It's "great". The standards on "good" sure as hell would be stiff if Holyfield's only registers under "good", imo.
     
  9. SportsLeader

    SportsLeader Chilling Full Member

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    I concur.

    Although I can't see fights with Haye or Povetkin happening. Haye is retiring at the end of the year as we know, and neither fighter took the opportunity to make the fight when they had the chance. Povetkin wont fight him, simple as that.
     
  10. shaunster101

    shaunster101 Yido Full Member

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    The fact is he could have had Haye on his record in the summer and then Adamek and Povetkin, but he decided that Chisora was more important at this moment in time. Now it looks like Haye and Povetkin will have each other on their record, diminishing one of their credibilities, Vitali will get Adamek and then Wlad will just get Haye or Povetkin.

    Fighting Chisora has triggered a sequence of events that mean he has gone from potentially having Haye, Povetlin and Adamek on his resume to maybe just Chisora and either Haye or Povetkin. That's his choice
     
  11. Arcane

    Arcane One More Time Full Member

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    Wlads record is as good as the opposition around him allows it to be.
     
  12. SportsLeader

    SportsLeader Chilling Full Member

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    It all depends on what your definition of 'good' is.

    Wlad's resume is good by today's heavyweight standards (very low, I might add), but compared to the like of Holyfield and Lewis, it is poor.
     
  13. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    ...Compared to your average name fighter of his time, it's pretty good, I'd say. Why would you compare it to two guys routinely ranked in the top ten heavyweights of all time- over a century of boxing? Is that really the fair standard for just "good"? :conf I wouldn't think so.
     
  14. jpab19

    jpab19 Exploding Muffin Dad Full Member

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    The Klitschko's records are 'good', in a sense. By today's standards, particularly Wlad's, they're good, because they fought the best there was to offer(for the most part). But, on the flip side, if you look at it in the way that people say that they are top 10-30 HW's ever, then yes, their records are poor.
     
  15. SportsLeader

    SportsLeader Chilling Full Member

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    Becuase I've seen guys on here claiming the Klitschko's resume's are above the likes of Lewis's and holyfields. Even today, I've seen posters claiming that the Klitschko's resumes, particularly Wlads, are amongst the best of all time at Heavyweight. I just want to put that notion to the rest of the forum.