Vitali Klitschko - An ATG? Discuss with reasons either way

Beatle · Mar 3, 2014

Vitali's resume is ridiculous. He has no great wins, because he ducked Holyfield, Byrd, Chambers, Chagaev, Povetkin, Fury, and many more. He doesn't fight skilled boxers.

Vitali's best win is fat, plodding gatekeeper Chris Arreola.

BatTheMan · Mar 3, 2014

SweetSciGuru said: ↑

LOL, you must be a writer. That was a very concise and detailed summary. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. :good
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Nah. It was a terrible opinionated piece of gobbledeegoop.

jas · Mar 3, 2014

freedom2013 said: ↑

He's not really an ATG, although he had the physical ability to become one.

Unlike his brother, he started boxing late and his old kickboxing injuries hampered his career (he lost four years).
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I agree with you for once:thumbsup i think vitali gives any HW in history a tough fight

bailey · Mar 3, 2014

Beatle said: ↑

Vitali's resume is ridiculous. He has no great wins, because he ducked Holyfield, Byrd, Chambers, Chagaev, Povetkin, Fury, and many more. He doesn't fight skilled boxers.

Vitali's best win is fat, plodding gatekeeper Chris Arreola.
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Seems a very poor post.
Think where Holyfield was in his career when Vitali was around. Holyfield was very faded.
Byrd, Vitali did fight, he was clearly winning before a shoulder njury ended the fight.
Chambers??? What did he do?
Chagaev, Did he duck him?
Povetkin. How long did it take before Povetkin was ready to take on Wlad without even mentioning Vitali.
Fury. Do you think Vitali ducked him?

Do you think Vitali would lose any of those match ups?

I dont think Arreola was as good a win as Hide, Sanders or a couple of others and Vitali beat Adamek who beat Arreola

treeve · Mar 3, 2014

I Know Everythi said: ↑

Both Klitschkos are extremely overrated since they have annually been placed among the top 10 p4p for the past few years in several p4p lists. To claim that they are underrated is fallacious and a terrible farce. Simply copy pasting statistics such as the Klitschkos W-L record or KO ratios and numerically comparing them to other great heavyweights simply demonstrates an inability to use logical thinking and an inability to put these misleading statistics into context. After the Holyfield Bowe Tyson Lewis era was finished, the post early 2000s heavyweight division became the weakest division in the history of any weight class of any era since perhaps the beginning of boxing as a sport.

All of the wins in both Klitschkos resumes come against fighters years and years beyond their prime, with padded records, with no name fighters who should not be in a boxing ring to begin with, or some combination of these flaws.

The biggest and most impressive win on both Klitschko's resume is Samuel Peter - who still managed to knock down the bum Wladimir 3 times in one fight. Samuel Peter as your best win does not make you an all time great or a top 10 p4p fighter for several years. In a weak era where Samuel Peter was the best fighter you beat (and one that Wladimir struggled with), it doesn't matter how many title defenses, knockouts, wins, etc. you have. You are not among the elite.

Lennox Lewis - even at 38 years old, fat, in the worst shape of his career, was barely losing on the scorecard 58-56 to Vitali - which could easily have been scored a draw at that point (yet so many idiotic fans try to use this slim edge as validation that Klitschko "won" the fight) and still managed to take complete control of the fight heading into the 6th round and smashed Vitali's face so badly that a medical professional could not allow Vitali to get further annihilated and, in hindsight, Lennox exposed Vitali as a fraudulent champion fighting in a weak era like Rocky Marciano.

Vitali was not dominating the fight. He had a decent start and as the fight went on he was eating uppercuts left and right and continued to clinch excessively. Lennox Lewis (remember - a 38 year old, fat, out of shape Lennox Lewis) still gave him fits and forced a doctor to stop the fight because Vitali was taking such a beating. Ironically people consider this humiliating face bashing to be Vitali's shining moment - that shows how overrated of a boxer you are when getting your faced smashed while having the slimmest of leads on the scorecard is your crowning achievement.

What I have written is UNDISPUTED truth and FACTUAL. This is not opinion or conjecture. I challenge any human being on earth to try and dispute the infallible assertion that, in general, the Klitshkos are extremely overrated by the media and public.

The following arguments do not disprove what has been written above and if one uses these fallacious arguments it will only prove one's own incompetence - much like Wladimir proved his incompetence as a boxer in getting demolished by Brewster (and falsely making up a poison excuse, no less.) Sanders and Puritty, and how Vitali demonstrated his incompetence as a boxer in having a relatively terrible performance against a trash version of Lennox Lewis.

1) Vitali is 45-2 with losses coming by injury stoppages and a 87% KO ratio. Wladimir is 59-3 with 51 KOs. Few boxers can match these numbers.
And who was the best opponent these boxers beat? Samuel Peter. Padded records mean nothing. Brian Nielsen was 49-0 at one point. Eric Esch was 61-1-3 at one point. Copy pasting statistics does not prove anything when you fail to put them in context. I highly doubt anyone is foolish enough to put Eric Esch above Evander Holyfield despite the fact that Esch has a higher winning percentage. If Holyfield fought both Klitschko's level of competition he would walk through them without a scratch.

2) Lennox Lewis was afraid of Vitali and ducked a rematch.
First of all - Lennox Lewis made Riddick Bowe duck HIM, he fought Holyfield twice, was willing to fight Tyson for several years and finally did, fought Mccall and Rahman even after being KOd, and Tommy Morrison, but some people are foolish enough to think he is scared of fighting KLITSCHKO of all people???
Secondly as mentioned several times - Lennox was 38, fat, in the worst shape ever, past his prime, and still made Vitali's face look like the deer my friend killed and put through the grinder a few weeks ago.
Thirdly - Why should a man in the physical twilight of his career (Lennox) risk his health for one more fight when he didn't take the fight seriously in the first place (still winning by TKO) and already proved his place among the all time greats? Vitali should be on his knees kissing Lennox's feet for even giving a bum like Klitschko the opportunity to fight an all time great like Lennox. Lennox isn't in the position of Joe Louis who had to come back and fight because of IRS problems, so he has no reason to risk his health after already risking it for over a decade against fighters lightyears beyond Klitschko.

3) the Klitschkos are foreign so they do not get respect.
really? Marquez, Pacquiao, Chavez sr, Duran, Monzon, Sergio Martinez, Genady Golovkin, Adonis Stevenson, Maidana, Rigondeux, Donaire do not get respect?
anyone who said this - shut up. No need to pull the race/nationality card

4) The Klitschkos have X amount of title defenses
Again, copy pasting statistics does not prove anything. Look at the men that the REAL heavyweights had to fight compared to the bum Klitschkos.
Bowe, Lennox, Moorer, Tua, Tyson, Evander, Morrison, Spinks, Foreman, Patterson, Frazier, Norton, Liston, etc.

Now lets compare the Klitschkos wins - Peter, old washed up Mercer, old washed up Rahman, Chris Byrd, Orlin Norris (who lost to a washed up Tyson), Purrity, Sanders, 38 year old fat Lennox, Chisora, Haye, Povetkin, Eddie Chambers. the hilarious thing is that they actually lost to some of these fighters on the list.

HUGE difference in competition.

Anyone who legitimately believes the farce that either Klitschko is an all time great heavyweight (let alone an ATG p4p fighter) is simply one of the many sheep that blindly follow the herd without thinking for themselves. I have blessed such blind sheep with my wisdom and knowledge and opened their eyes to the truth. It is time for these blind sheep to acknowledge the truth, otherwise I fear that these sheep blindly stumbling through the dark for so long will deny the truth even more vehemently now that these blind sheep have been exposed to the light of truth.

You do have to give the Klitschkos credit for dominating the division, even though it is incredibly weak. That in itself deserves SOME merit. You should not, however, put them among the all time greats after Vitali has been exposed by Lennox Lewis and Wladimir got showed up by Purrity Brewster and Sanders, and struggled against Sam Peter.

Again - I challenge any human being to try and refute my indisputable factual statements at the risk of making themselves look as incompetent as the Klitschkos in their attempts to be ranked among all time great heavyweights. If any human being can refute the irrefutable facts listed, I will respond and recognize their superior wisdom and knowledge. Unfortunately for Klitschko fans, the only people who possess wisdom and knowledge superior to myself would never try and refute these facts in the first place. For that reason, the chances of receiving a response from myself are negligible.
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Very well put the first objective post on vitali ever pn ESB.
Whrer's you response BAILEY

energie · Mar 3, 2014

top 15 but not top 10

The Devil · Mar 3, 2014

He's not an ATG and neither is his robotic brother. Vitali's legacy defining fight is having his arsé handed to him by the last undisputed HW champion of the World, England's Lennox Lewis. The less said about Wladimir's opposition the better. atsch

Faerun · Mar 3, 2014

Hell no. His resume is dog**** which renders his "records" useless. Having 80 KO% against crap fighters means nothing.

madballster · Mar 4, 2014

Is Vitali among the greatest Heavyweights that ever lived? Probably among the best 25-35 IMO. So that answer is he an ATG? Of course he is. Not a top 10 one, but a top 50 without a shred of a doubt.

Redman · Mar 4, 2014

bailey said: ↑

Vitali Klitschko - An ATG?

5. Beat - reigning world champs in Hide, Peters, Sanders (vacated), then beat top HWs and other decent names in Adamek, Johnson, Williams, Arreola, Solis, Chisora to name a few.

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Wow, that's a **** poor list of fighters. The heavyweight division really has sucked for well over a decade now, that list pretty much highlights it.

VVMM · Mar 4, 2014

I wanna be objective! What is the biggest thing by Vitali Klitschko.?
1TKO 6 loss against a fat, old Lennox Lewis. This fight was in 2003.
Rahman destroyed a younger ,better Lewis with a classic one punch ko
in 2001. Klitschko landed 156 punches/6 rounds by a punchstat.
It wasn't enough.Lewis won.
The prime Vitali Klitschko couldn't knock the one of the worst and glass-chinned
Lewis. The below average Hasim Rahman destroyed Lewis.
Is it(a TKO6 loss) an ATG performance against a slow out of shape.
A comparsion.
The only 21 years old Tyson destroyed the ATG Holmes easily.
Only Tyson could knock the tall Holmes out and many say he isn't an ATG just a bum-beater midget.
NO . Vitali klitschko isn't an ATG. The old, out of shape Lewis ripped and
humiliated Vitali Klitschko's face.This destroyed Vitali's legacy absolutely.

Farmboxer · Mar 4, 2014

Vitali Klitschko is one of my favorite fighters. He would knock out hour hero Wilder, whom you claim to the the greatest heavyweight of all time..................LOL! Compare Vitali with Wilder, there is no comparison.............

HerolGee · Mar 5, 2014

bailey said: ↑

I dont think Arreola was as good a win as Hide, Sanders or a couple of others and Vitali beat Adamek who beat Arreola
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how in gods name do you rate 38 year old retired unfit fatboy Sanders ahead of Arreola?

just because he beat Wlad? that's not a difficult thing to do. beating wlad is the benchmark of journeymen.

jas · Mar 5, 2014

has vitali ducked anybody?

Faerun · Mar 5, 2014

jas said: ↑

has vitali ducked anybody?
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Didn't rematch Byrd, didn't fight Rahman. Also, called the winner of Haye vs Chisora out and fought Charr.

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