How Would Wlad In His Prime, Have Done in The Last 9 years?

Wlad never beats Fury and has as much chance of getting poleaxed by Wilder as the next man.

Wlad KO's Joshua.

(Usyk likely beats Wlad, IMO - either by late stoppage or decision).

 

Mate, he just got schooled by Parker. Yeah, he knocked him down a couple of times but his so called legendary power couldn’t get a wounded guy out of there.

Remember, we are talking prime Wlad here. And prime Wlad beats Zhang for fun.

As for Bakole, I won’t comment as I haven’t seen very much of him. But Sam Peter was a very dangerous guy at his best, which is close enough to when Wlad fought him (certainly the first 2 times).

 

Parker has a good chin though to be fair and even he was knocked down twice from what appeared to be glancing blows.

Wladimir has a weaker chin than Parker and I'll stand by what I said that Zhang would be dangerous for Wladimir in the first 6 rounds.

 

Wladimir would have done excellent!

 

I agree. Wlad SHOULD win, but Zhang's southpaw style along with his power, could very well be Wlad's kryptonite.

 

Yeah, gotta rate Parker’s chin. That’s fair.

But I’ll come back to there being levels in this sport and if Zhang was good enough he’d have done something by now.

Good discussion though man.

 

Zhang is too slow, and his stamina is too poor. Wlad has more experience than any elite heavyweight in history fighting southpaws. He excelled against them. He lost to Sanders but sanders was much faster than Zhang.
Wlad fought and defeated Chris Byrd 2x, Tony Thompson 2x, Ruslan Chagaev, Sultan Ibragimov and Francisco Pianeta dominating all of them.
Quite impressive

 

Don't get me wrong I'd rate Wladimir a favourite over Zhang it's just those first 6 rounds would bed angerous for Wladimir and if gets caught early it might be curtains.

And yeah nice to share some thoughts as always.

 

Turn off the highight reels and watch the fights.
Wlad went life and death with geriatric Tony Thompson who moved and punched in slow motion
Facts
He out out landed in every punch category by Thompson. Facts
If zang was in there Wlad lays face down on tbe canvas, just like what happened with sanders.
Ur boy Wlad couldnt take a punch to save his life.
One touch from big bang sends him into a hyperventilating panic stricken meltdown

 

Ugh this thread activated Dino again.

Wlad being retired is the best thing that happened to this place.