Povetkin in the 80's How does he do?

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  1. Loudon

    Loudon Loyal Member Full Member

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  2. attaboi

    attaboi Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    I swear this dude.
     
  3. SmackDaBum

    SmackDaBum TKO7 banned Full Member

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    You made it look closer i give you that. Maybe the top end talent were better but the depth - this decade looks better to me.

    I would take Pulev over Rahman for example.
     
  4. Loudon

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    Hey, I respect your opinion, and it makes for a great debate.

    But I think that that the top end talent was clearly better, as well as the overall depth. We've got some good fighters in this decade, and some great characters. But if you list today's top 20 guys, I think it looks weak.

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  5. BlizzyBlizz

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    He'd get beaten and probably kod by guys like Renaldo Snipes and Witherspoon.
     
  6. Mendoza

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    Povetkin is now 29-1, with 21 Ko's. His lone loss was on points to Wlad.

    While he's not as good as Holmes or Tyson at their best, we are talking the 1980's here. Povetkin has been consistently good, and could have beaten Holmes in 1984-1985, or Tyson from 1988-1989.

    Likely the 3rd best man of the 1980’s and good enough to win one of the major belts. Good enough to beat the #1 and #2 men on their slide years as well.
     
  7. Ramon Dekkers

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    Povetkin is an olympic champ with an amateur record of 125–7, with all losses avenged.

    But some believe that he would be defeated by any drunken boxer of the 80s.

    Ok
     
  8. dinovelvet

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    Matt Korobov had an amateur record of 300-12.

    Got sparked out in 6 rounds by Andy Lee.

    See ya.
     
  9. BetterThenYou

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    For the Huck fight he weighed 229.2
    For the Perez fight he weighed 231.75


    Explain how he was in the worse shape of his life?