Trans-Continental Prospect Rankings: The Top 10 Heavyweights Professional And Amateur

His career stalled out pretty badly for two years, but since late 2014 he's got it back on track in a big way he's racked up 6 wins in the last year and a half.

As far as his age goes, Pulev was 34 before he got a shot at Wlad, a lot of HW's are starting to hit their stride later and later now days. That's not that uncommon now days.

 

I get what you're saying, but in my opinion, he passes the eye test.

 

I was looking for a Ukrainian to do a thread on. And I saw Teslenko and I was :twisted: there was only 2 clips I could find of him, he's damn impressive for someone that young without a ton a amateur experience.

I have my fingers crossed, but I doubt all of them do, but I don't see why they wouldn't.

 

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I'm just not that big a fan of Nistor, it's a personal taste, he probably should be ranked higher, but personally I don't like his ugly mauling style, and I'm not sure how well it'll translate to the pros although he is doing pretty well in the longer APB matches, I really enjoyed his stoppage of Pfeifer, but for some reason I've never been able to fully appreciate him.:conf Sorry.

Personally I don't think Levit height is a problem and I was going to place him higher, I really enjoy his style and think he'd make a great pro, but most of the people on this site happen to think 6'2 is tiny for a HW. However I don't.

I'm not too thrilled with how I ranked the amateurs either I'm probably going to change a few of them around, but I'm also considering what they'll be like as pros and judging them with that criteria, I think Tishchenko will be a good pro, and Nistor not so much, I think Tishchenko has plenty of room for improvement, but since he's fairly young there's plenty of time for it.

 

I mainly did the list based on how I think they'll do as pros, and I think he'll do well for some reason, granted he's been on the downswing recently, but I still have faith in him.

Kuzmin is turning out to be a little bit of a bore, never liked him all that much to be honest, Dinu has yet to impress me either, Pavel Doroshilov I have little faith since he couldn't stop Danny Williams and that's not a good sign.