Who were Wlad's three best opponents?

Bryd should be rated higher for me based on wins over Vitali and Tua they stand up to anyone else's big wins.
Then he has some other solid opponents like Oquando, Williamson, McCline, past prime Evander.

I'd go Fury, Pov, Bryd

 

It is Joshua, Povetkin and Byrd for me. Wladimir came up good in all three (was in different stages of his career in each fight) and his opponents were all capable, fiery and in their prime years. Fury was a great opponent, but the fight was a boring sloppy snooze fest. Wlad himself was poor in that fight, even considering that he was post-prime. Haye and Peter are two slightly overrated opponents. Chagaev on the other hand, tends to get underrated a bit and is not even mentioned in this poll.

 

I would say Fury, Povetkin, and Haye (or Joshua). However in terms of difficulty of matchup for Wlad I would swap out Povetkin and Haye for Sanders and possibly Peter.

 

Haye, Povetkin, Fury.

 

Haye is not better than Byrd, nor does he have a better resume. Why are people picking Haye over Byrd ? It makes no sense to me

 

Proof Wlad is overrated

Second he fought a man his own size with some nuts he got chinned, even AJ who's a bum dosser bodybuilder.

 

Fury has never fought anyone 'his size', so STFU....

 

The men same size or bigger than Fury would get their heads boxed off by him. Easily. They have nothing to offer. Sitting heavy bags. Zhang is interesting early doors but mid rounds onwards becomes a big lump awaiting a heart attack.

 

Fury
Joshua
Byrd

 

You clearly made this thread just to try to hate/troll on Wlad.

Funny how you haven't pointed out those two losses to Fury and Joshua came when he was old at about 40/41, past prime and right at the end of his career.

Almost all great fighters have losses in their final fights.

 

The problem with these questions Is that when you have dominant champions like Wladimir and Vitali combined cleaning out a division together, you don't have other fighters become world champions to become more highly rated.
For example
If I was to think Wladimirs best opponents I would likely instantly think of Fury and Joshua but they didn't face Wladimir until late in his career.
If say they both challenged Wladimir when prime and he beat them both, they would possibly not become world champions and not be viewed any higher than some of the other opponents
Of course that is all hindsight

I guess
Fury/Joshua as arguably the best though see above
The third I could make several arguments but I think Haye

 

Wladimir also won an Olympic Gold medal aged just 20 years old at super heavyweight, what a phenomenal, brilliant achievement that was. Proof yet again of what an elite, special talent he was.