What are his top 5 wins? many consider him an ATG. I’m having a hard time deciding.....is light heavy adamek in there? Chisora? Hmmmm.....
Who could he have fought bit didnt beside Wlad? It was a weak era and he was unlucky with injuries. But he was never outboxed, never gave up more than two rounds! Had a sick ko percentage, weird style, granite chin, great comeback, punch output asnd is a h2h mythical nightmare. Also great as amateur and kickbox champion. His best wins are: - sanders - peter - arreola - chisora - gomez - adamek - hide - johnson - donald Not perse in that order and yes while weak. What else could he have done? Couldnt fight Wlad and Lennox got lucky and ran away from a rematch. And because he dominated like I mentioned it doesnt make him less of a h2h beast and hof boxer.
Top15 Peter Sanders Gomez Johnson (Kirk) Donald Williams Chisora Hide Solis Bean Arreola Adamek Johnson (Safetypin) Briggs Charr It looks weird to see Peter topping the list, but at that point he was seen as a force at HW. It was downhill from there on. Adamek doesn't even make my top10, because he wasn't much of a force at HW compared to 175 and 200.
Imo and looking at where they were at the time... In no particular order and in some cases debatable Peter Hide Sanders Arreola Gomez Not a bad top 5 at all
His best achievement is the knowledge that Wald would never have been world champion had Vitali not retired.
So you're basically didn't see the fight, and are going by what you heard mixed in with the Byrd fight?! It's up on youtube if you're interested.
It's often down to circumstances I don't think it is weak at all but understand why some do. People often forget where the opponent was in their career when respective fights happen and judge at the end of a career which can also be inaccurate Vitali was I think 14-2-0 (12KOs) in world title fights I recall when he was facing Hide that he wasn't picked to win in a boxing magazine and Hide was a very destructive puncher. It was a very impressive world class win at the time Peter at the time was a big punching HW champ Sanders had not longer previously beaten W Klitschko Gomez was 44-1-0 when Vitali fought him and had as well as being a CW champ, had some decent HW wins Arreola was 27-0-0 and had been on a good run But I think as time goes on people just recall some of those opponents for losses they suffered after rather than at the time It's interesting because I see very conflicting posts and opinions with Wilder who is ATM in world title fights 10-2-1 (10KOs)