It's time to give the Klitschko Brothers their just due

There wives are very good friends

 

I would have liked to see them come into their best in the mid 90's. I think they would have fit in well and the fights would be far more competitive than they are now and brought out the best in both brothers but there is no question they are the best heavyweights of today.

 

Ali, Bowe, Tyson, Holyfield, Lewis, Ibeabuchi, in their primes would have knocked out either Klitschko. I think Buster Douglas would have outboxed Wlad, as would a prime Michael Moorer or George Foreman. I think Vitali is the more talented brother who would beat Tyson, Holyfield or Lewis but he wouldn't beat them in their primes, only the old versions.

 

This is a pretty bad era, no matter which way you cut it.

Just the look of some of these guys is quite disappointing. Arreola is just a fat bar fighter, nothing more and nothing less. He pretty much epitomizes what is wrong with the heavies these days. Basically anyone over 230 pounds, regardless of physique, who can brawl just well enough not to get killed in the ring, beats 1 or 2 journeyman, and all of a sudden the guy is considered a top contender.

I really don't know what the hell happened to this division. I mean, right around the time John Ruiz started to become a contender, it was like that was the beginning of the end. Ever since then, late 90's early 2000's, it has all gone to ****.

Also, look, lets just be honest. The fact that they are two brothers is very interesting and noteworthy, amazing accomplishments for the family and it's a nice little story. But they won't fight each other..... and even though that's a helluva reason to not want to fight, objectively, it's a pretty big problem when the two obvious front runners can't fight (Even though I wouldn't fight my own brother either). This era has been one of two kings sitting atop two separate mountains, neither is getting down to fight the other king, and all those who climb one mountain end up getting destroyed and usually realize that it's not even worth climbing the other.

 

Excellent post & welcome to the boards. Now brace for a relentless onslaught of ******s who claim that neither brother is any better than Tommy Morrison......................

 

That's fair, blame their fans for your lack of respect. Frickin' idiot.

 

If you're not joking then that's pretty cool I didn't know that.

 

I throughly enjoyed Wlad's KO of Tony Thompson myself..............

as well as watching Vitali smash the **** outta Sam Peter & Juan Carlos Gomez, two completely different style fighters, result? The same.

 

I agree b/c they claim the K brothers are boring but they fail to realize that Ali, Lewis, and Holmes had some boring fights too. Every champ has had boring fights before. I'm not going to lie though, coming from a Klitschko fan, I've read some crazy posts from Klitschko fans though and it makes the Klitschkos look bad sometimes.

 

History has a way of being kinder to fighters AFTER they've retired.

Many of the posters here that swear Tyson was this amazing wrecking machine have only seen highlights & didn't see him struggle against less than stellar opposition. Don't get me wrong, he was a wrecking machine sometimes, but most of those opponents were scared like Spinks.

 

I swear I think half of them are women.

 

I think they'll get the credit they deserve once they've both been retired for a few years. They obviously are two of the more dominant heavyweights in recent history.

They get a lack of respect because they're at the top, and people always feel the need to try and discredit the best.

Look at Mayweather. The guy's one of the best boxers ever, dominates everybody he fights (with the exception of ODLH and Castillo of course), yet people call him a coward and say so and so was way better etc. That's just how it is when you're on top.