Well I suppose if you include the fights that take up half his resume where he fought overmatched, grotesquely overweight and void of world title boxing ability, whom all fell flat on their face out of exhaustion rather than the all time great power of borat, you may have a case. I mean wlads punching looked so awesome against David bambi Haye... Hahaha give me a break, wlads knock out percentile is a freaking joke....I think you should count his KO wins that have been as the result of the fight going to the last two or three rounds, when those fat blobs were ready to roll over
Byrd - Pretty good fighter Haye - Competitive heavyweight. All Time Great Cruisereight. Chagaev - Solid contender Chambers - Solid contender
Personally I think Byrd is Wlad's best win by some margin. Byrd while boring was very effective, he beat Tua, Holyfield, McCline and Vitali. That's a better resume than any fighter today and he was also a title holder. Chagaev may have been a very good amateur but he is nothing special. He's small for a heavyweight and his best win is a victory against Valuev who got very lucky against a shot Holyfield. If a shot fighter from a previous era can beat you, even a great one then you really can't be that good and the context of any victory over you can easily be valued. Peter was a solid enough fighter but even in his prime he was crude and a fat James Toney proved how limited he was. Peter may have looked good in this era but in others, he would struggle to be a top 10 fighter. Chamber is an even smaller poorer version of Byrd, he would not have even been a fringe contender during Lewis' era. Brock seems solid enough but even a small heavy like Chambers was able to earn a decision against him. Wlad's resume is very poor but he's fought and beaten everyone put in front of him and it's not like there are better opponents out there, the division just sucks at the moment.
This. It's one thing to be in a bad era and blowing up your weak competition to show your dominance. It's another to be in a bad era and fighting like a vagina against your weak competition.
If you make a thread about it put some effort in it -- you just mentioned the recent fighters you have seen... Wlad's resume: Axel Schulz Chris Byrd X2 Francois Botha Ray Mercer Jameel McCline Samuel Peter X2 Calvin Brock Lamon Brewster Sultan Ibragimov Tony Thompson Hasim Rahman Ruslan Chagaev Eddie Chambers David Haye Then you have boxers like: Ray Austin, Monte Barrett etc.
That's a bloody solid 18 opponents right there, anybody would be proud to have scalped all of those names.