I would love to watch him beat James Toney into the canvas but I'm sure James Phony would test positve for steroids on purpose and get suspended to avoid Wlad in the ring.
I 2nd that option. I like to see records broken & I think that fight would put the 2 biggest or at least tallest fighters that ever fought in the ring.
The winner of Chagaev vs Ibragimov, easily the most important fight out there by far at heavyweight. Even if Peter beats Maskaev his biggest wins are over a 38 year old shot former middleweight in Toney and a 38 year old Maskaev who has been KO'd five times. If Ruslan beats Ibragimov in his last five fights he would have beat Virchis, Sprott, Ruiz, Valuev and Ibragimov. Three titleholders, one undefeated power puncher with an iron chin, and a decent fighter in Sprott.
Never. Even if Wlad's biggest revenue was added to Vitali's biggest revenue, it probably wouldn't come close to what Tyson earnt against Peter McNeeley. The only cash-machine that came close to Tyson was/is Oscar.
You are right insasmuch as Hollyfield is still a draw,but the old geezer has no chance to beat Wlad IMO. Fighters like Virchis,or Chagaev deserve a shot at Wlad,too. Besides Wlad is the big draw worldwide.He can sell 20,000 tickets within a few hours no matter who he would fight in the ring.