What does Anthony Joshua need to do to be named greatest heavyweight of all time?

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  1. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh! Full Member

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    :lol:

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  2. Odins beard

    Odins beard Fentanyl is one hell of a drug.... Full Member

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    LOL

    I can Wlad and Lewis's era's where far more impressive.

    The fact you have a semi naked Joshua in the shower as an avatar speaks volumes.
     
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  3. BCS8

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    Joshua is 20 fights into his career. What he's accomplished thus far is termed "a good start". He's got a long way to go before he's the GOAT.
     
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  4. James Smith

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    Wlad was the best of his era, and Joshua dominated the best version of him.

    Lewis's era had a fat 46 year old George Foreman as the lineal champion. Hardly a strong era compared to now.
     
  5. James Smith

    James Smith Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Not one of you has seriously even tried to answer the question yet.

    What does Joshua need to do in your opinion to be called the greatest of all time?
     
  6. Odins beard

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    Joshua barely scraped by a 41yo inactive Wlad.

    When you have fighters like Breazeale, Whyte, and the clown Joshua beat for tge title in your top 10 it's really not a great division.
     
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  7. GALVATRON

    GALVATRON Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    I dont think its a matter of who can beat who, its a matter of era popularity not a head to head match. Being ATG is longetivity and overall career inside and outside the ring,only in rare circumstances is one still fighting and has that label like Klitchko /Ali and Foreman had. Most boxing fans aren't smart enough to really think on their own and rely on hearsay and boxing writers /experts ( lol )..and just general rule of thumb that has little sense to it , and that's the past timers were better and for no particular reason... o_O

    Of course if you throw Joshua in the past like when they were wearing 5 oz horse hair gloves ,hes going to make many boxers retire fast.

    Joshua cant do much to be greatest of all time...if he knocks guys out fast he will have said to be weak era...if he struggles he will be labeled as overatted...this is the trick that past timers have put in boxing to reassure the old time guys cant be surpassed. this is boxing and the fans would have to change the sport in general but they dont have the smarts too..for whatever reason that is? lol
     
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  8. James Smith

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    Most people agree that was the best version of Wlad ever, and Wlad was the best of his very long 10 year era, Which makes this era far stronger with people like Joshua, Wlad, Fury, Parker, Povetkin, Ortiz, Haye and Wilder.
     
  9. SmackDaBum

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    41 years are no way near prime.

    Just look at reaction time decline as an example of that: [url]https://goo.gl/images/h1xNbC[/url]
     
  10. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh! Full Member

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  11. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Not a good enough scene of fighters around to grab the reigns in any big way beyond what he already did to Klitschko. Honestly he'd have to do some unreasonable 10+ year reign with legit HW's falling off of trees throughout that time period.
     
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  12. James Smith

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    That study is using untrained people.
    Studies show that if you train in a particular sport it prevents
    Muscle and reaction time from declining.

    Wlad was definitely at his best:
     
  13. James Smith

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    I disagree I think it has never been better.
     
  14. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Yeah man. Brezeale and Whyte and Miller and Pulev. So historically great. Man, what a top 10!
     
  15. Outstock

    Outstock PBR Full Member

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    Nothing , there's nothing he can do to become the g.o.a.t even at HW , but he can certainly go on to be the best since Lennox Lewis.