Vitalis top 5 wins

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.

 

Nothing lucky about tearing someone’s face apart

 

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

 

Lucky he got cut though. I wish they had the rematch though

 

I wouldn't say giving Vitali 4 different gashes is luck

But i also would've hoped for a rematch

 

His best achievement is the knowledge that Wald would never have been world champion had Vitali not retired.

 

Vitali quit why would there be a need for a rematch ?

 

He can't be an ATG with that resume. Sanders, Peter are the only ones worth noting.

 

His resume is weak but at least in part it wasnt his fault.

That’s a very weak top 5.

 

Not ATG !!

 

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 wasn't Vitali's fault, the era was weak

 

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)