If World Championship never fragmented:Heavyweight

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  1. la-califa

    la-califa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    If the World Championship never had ever fragmented. Of the current World titleholders, which world be champions would have indeed & which fighters might just have been conternders.
    Heavyweight: After Ali was exiled, how would a linear Championship to present day have shaped up?
     
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  2. janitor

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    The world would be a better place.
     
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  3. Kalasinn

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    Totally agree.
     
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  4. popejking

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    : Lewis (beat Golota, who was beating Bowe 2 times)-Rahman-Lewis(
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    Vitali Klitschko (after beating Corrie Sanders) (
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    : Wladimir Klitschko (after beating Sultan Ibragimov)
     
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  5. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    Wlad would be a big winner.

    If there was a single title, where the holder could be forced to defend it against him, then he would have it now.
     
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  6. sportofkings

    sportofkings Boxing Junkie banned

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    a big winner against who?
     
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  7. doug.ie

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    wlad is the true heavyweight champion today.
     
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  8. la-califa

    la-califa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    By the time Wlade earns a shot. In all likelyhood the undisputed champion would be...Vitali
     
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  9. popejking

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    After Lewis retired, there should be a line, before Wlad:

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  10. la-califa

    la-califa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Would Spinks have been Champion? Others who could have knocked off Holmes. Witherspoon(Rematch) Page, Dokes, Berbick.
    Could Spinks have defeated any of these fighters, if any one of these had ended Holmes' reign?
     
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  11. popejking

    popejking Adamek Full Member

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    Who knows. He didnt fight them, so we dont know. I was trying only to make it with the fights that already took place. But even if Holmes had lost before Spinks and Spinks hadnt captured the belt, finally Mike Tyson would have become the champion.
     
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  12. janitor

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    Whoever turned out to be the key to the lineal championship.

    If they fight him he takes it.
     
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  13. la-califa

    la-califa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Your pickin' Wlad to defeat a prime Vitali? Vitali would have won the belt after Lewis retired rather that give Vitali a rematch. Not saying he couldn't do it. but that would a heck of a fight. but it would have to happen!
     
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  14. la-califa

    la-califa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    More of a question to myself. I wonder if Spinks could actually do it. His title winning performance, was it Spinks himself, or more Holmes' aging? interesting question...
     
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  15. Tonifranz

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    Wouldn't matter.

    Vitali would have retired in 2005 because of injuries even if the HW championship isn't fragmented.

    And I'm guessing Wlad would take it somewhere between 2005 and 2008, and Vitali won't fight Wlad during his comeback.
     
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