Is wladimir klitschko the greatest Heavweight of all time?

Atleast wlad fighting: wlad 52 fights and 11 years

Lewis 42 fights and 14 years

 

He'd have a much better chance vs "the greats" than what most think. I think Ali would outbox Klitschko just like he outboxed Ken Norton which wasn't easy at all. Tyson fell to a "glass chinned coward" named Buster Douglass. Lennox Lewis decided to hang up the gloves before fighting him. Klitschko has enough skills and punching power that if there was a time machine he would expose a few legends and give some of the real legends a tough fight at the very least. WK is a large man with good movement, excellent power in both hands and well rounded boxing skills, beatable yes, but capable of beating others as well.

 

Wlad winning rematches easily too TEENAGE PUP! What the point is, Lennox lost to B-GRADE fighters in him prime......ATG..... fighters he should not have lost to at that stage. Wlad is 31, he got another 7yrs to better Lennox's record, we judge him then! :hi:

 

Being from Kentucky I find this post offensive... Klitschko? Not even top 10. Ali, foreman, lewis, tyson, holmes, spinx, holyfield, (just to name a few in no particular order)atsch

 

This man speaks the truth. Vlad, due to his less than Tex-Cobb like chin, COULD be beaten by many of the past heavyweights. But with his size, power, boxing skills, he'd be a tough matchup for just about all of them.

Being sort of an old fart, I watched Ali, Frazier, Spinks, Holmes and Tyson
growing up. Of them all, I'd only put money on a (prime) Tyson, (prime) Ali or (prime) Holmes to beat him. At his best, Tyson was fast-enough, powerful-enough and skilled enough to get inside Vlad's jab/defense and hurt him. To put Spinks in that list you'd have to be smoking as much crack as Spinks probably was. To get into a "classic" boxer vs. boxer standup boxing match with Vlad would be dangerous for any of them.

 

No.

 

How can anyone label this man a "coward":huh

 

:huh

 

I mostly agree with your assessment. I'm not very sure that he couldn't beat Holyfield, and I'd pick both Rocky and smokin' Joe over Wlad.

Ali would put a very lopsided UD on him.

All that said, he is, by a wide margin, the best heavywt since Lennox retired.

 

Spinks?

Are you serious?

I would have as much chance of beating him as Spinks would.

Wlad, at this point, is not an alltime top 10, and Ali would dance rings around him, scoring a late stoppage or UD.

But he is the best out there right now and could have several more years to improve his resume.

But Spinks?

No way, no how, no version.

 

On the button, thanks! :good

 

Sounds fair enough.

He needs to stay sharp. He doesn't want another sudden Sanders-style shock, making some title belt defences then suddenly getting iced by a big underdog. Approach every fight with the importance it deserves.

If he carries on as he's doing, he'll do fine. Might need to deal with King at some point though, can't avoid that forever.

 

Dunno why u guys keep postin to bring this one back to the top
half decent fighter in a decidedly average division

 

Vlad has the tools to become the greatest, but he needs to keep cleaning out the heavyweight division to force the other champions to fight him.

 

:blood