Vitali Klitschko is the GOAT Heavyweight

No

 

Sort your life out.

 

Hell no.

 

Frightening what a prime Tyson would have done to any version of the elder robot.

The younger robot would have **** his pants in the dressing room at the thought of getting his head knocked off by Tyson.

 

Nah....

 

:rofl

 

He's not. He wasn't good enough to beat Lennox that night in 2003 and his brother has accomplished far more than he ever did. Those two facts mean he will never be the Greatest Heavyweight of All Time.

 

Tyson wouldn't touch him once.

George Foreman on the other hand...

 

Where does this come from?

Today is about Maidana dryhumping Broner, and maybe some Thurman talk inbetween. Stick to the program man. :bart

 

TKO6 anyone?

 

The Lennox/Vitali fight proved that Vitali was a very good heavyweight who could trouble Lewis but it didn't prove he could beat him. Vitali started stronger and hit Lewis with everything he had but couldn't stop him, he was picking up rounds on workrate but Lewis was landing the cleaner and more damaging shot and had the better punches thrown/punches landed ratio, and in the final round of that fight Vitali simply wasn't hurting Lewis anymore while at the same getting hurt by Lewis. The ending might have been inconclusive but it was in no way controversal, Vitali couldn't continue safely with his face in that condition, it was one of the worse cases of cuts in boxing ever, he needed 60 stitches to repair the damage, I can see no conceivable way that the legitimacy of the decision to stop it can be questioned.

As far as "stalling" goes, Lewis did drag it out a bit after Vitali became mandatory again but not to an unreasonable lenght. It was only about two or so months after Vitali beat Johnson that Lewis decided to retire. Had he been a younger man I doubt that thoughts of retirement would have even have crossed his mind, but he was old by the standards of boxing and wasn't interested in taking tough fights anymore, he wanted to take easy fights for easy money and wind his career down. Lewis thought both Klitschko's would be easy opposition, and that he wouldn't have to put much effort into it to beat them, but the fight against Vitali proved him wrong and he was forced to face the reality of the fact that if he continued on as an active fighter then he would have to fight more difficult and grueling battles and he simply did not want that at that stage in his career.

Lewis never wanted to be Holyfield or Foreman or Holmes and be fighting well beyond his prime getting his head bashed in for a payday. He was intelligent with the business side of boxing and had a fortune to retire on so that he could choose when he stopped without money being an issue, and having accomplished his goals of being unified undisputed world heavyweight champion and having beaten Holyfield and Tyson there was nothing for him to aim for anymore, there was no top dog to beat because he was the top dog. Beating Vitali again would have been a plus but it was not a big enough incentive to convince him to continue and put himself through the effort needed to actually accomplish that feat especially when he was not entirely sure that could manage it with age creeping up on him.

 

He clearly isn't the GOAT, you can't make any strong argument for it.

His resume is simply not good enough, his most significant fight was when he lost to Lewis.

Head to head he ranks highly, he would give anyone a tough fight simply due to his durability, work rate and size. But he did lose to a faded and ill prepared Lewis can anyone make a strong argument he would have a chance against prime Lewis?