Wlad Klitschko has the worst style for Ali

Sanders/Brewster/Peter are big punching or/and aggressive guys which Ali isn't (even though he had decent power when he sat on his shots)

 

Who has said otherwise?

The reason I highlighted them, is because he’s scoffed at the notion that a fighter of 6’3 could have beaten Wlad.

To him, Ali would have been dwarfed in size.

So if that was true, then Wlad dwarfed 4 non elite fighters, where 3 of them knocked him out.

Yes, they had power.

But so did Wlad.

Wlad was a SHW with huge power, and supposedly the 3rd great HW of all time.

So what happened??

He couldn’t beat 3 B-C level guys, who he dwarfed, whilst in his 20’s??

The guy’s a clown.

Scoffing at the notion that a guy of Ali’s size could beat a modern day SHW.

This is despite the fact that a guy of Ali’s exact size, has just beat 3 of them twice each.

Then the icing on the cake, is saying that nobody from the 70’s was better, before then querying on another thread, why Joe Calzaghe isn’t in George’s top 100.

We’re obviously dealing with a genius here.

 

Stop lying.

 

This is the Ring Magazine's Annual Ratings from 1975. These were in the March 1976 issue. I think this is more fair than just listing everyone in the decade as it gives us an exact time (almost 50 years later) and their current ranking.

1975 (as of March 1976) 2026 (as of February 2026) BRB Picks
Champion - Muhammad Ali Champion - Oleksandr Usyk Champion - Usyk
1. Ken Norton 1. Fabio Wardley 1. Wardley
2. Jimmy Young 2. Agit Kabayel 2. Kabayel
3. Joe Frazier 3. Daniel Dubois 3. Frazier
4. George Foreman 4. Filip Hrgovic 4. Foreman
5. Ron Lyle 5. Zhilei Zhang 5. Lyle
6. Earnie Shavers 6. Martin Bakole 6. Bakole
7. Duane Bobick 7. Moses Itauma 7. Itauma
8. Joe Bugner 8. Efe Ajagba 8. Bugner
9. Chuck Wepner 9. Richard Torrez 9. Torrez
10. Randy Neumann 10. Murat Gassiev 10. Gassiev

The way I score it: 7-4 (2026 Team). Maybe you have it a little differently. IMO we have more depth than before. Bobick down are really the bottom of the barrel. I didn't even include Fury or Joshua, but as you know Fury is fighting again in a couple months and while AJ is not ranked for whatever reason he just took part in one of the most viewed matches ever.

 

Updated to view easier:

1975 (as of March 1976)
Champion - Muhammad Ali
1. Ken Norton
2. Jimmy Young
3. Joe Frazier
4. George Foreman
5. Ron Lyle
6. Earnie Shavers
7. Duane Bobick
8. Joe Bugner
9. Chuck Wepner
10. Randy Neumann

2026 (as of February 2026)
Champion - Oleksandr Usyk
1. Fabio Wardley
2. Agit Kabayel
3. Daniel Dubois
4. Filip Hrgovic
5. Zhilei Zhang
6. Martin Bakole
7. Moses Itauma
8. Efe Ajagba
9. Richard Torrez
10. Murat Gassiev

BRB Picks
Champion - Usyk
1. Wardley
2. Kabayel
3. Frazier
4. Foreman
5. Lyle
6. Bakole
7. Itauma
8. Bugner
9. Torrez
10. Gassiev

 

Okay.

This is more reasonable.


So let’s do a deal.

If you can be more respectful and less ignorant, then I’ll try to debate you in a pleasant manner.


Regarding your ratings, there’s a few things to note:


As you may, or may not be aware, there’s monthly rankings and annual rankings. Now obviously they change throughout the year, depending on various things.

Now whilst I respect the annual ratings, there were simply better fighters who were active, yet who aren’t shown on your specific list.

Most notably, Jerry Quarry and a young Larry Holmes.


Now although it’s true that Larry hadn’t achieved much at that stage, it would be very disingenuous to omit him. And especially as you have Moses Itauma and Richard Torrez on your list.

Now Itauma has only had 13 fights, and Torrez has only had 14 fights.


Now obviously we have the benefit of knowing what happened post ranking, and we know how great Larry was, even back then.

So there’s no way we can just ignore him, when he was active, and he’d had more fights than both Itauma and Torrez.

He'd been a pro for a few years, he'd had 19 fights, with 9 of them being in 1975.

We can't ignore that, just because he didn't make those specific rankings.

Also, the following year, in 1976, he WAS ranked in the top 10.


It would probably be fairer to rank the top 20 HW’s of 75/76, to get a fairer reflection of who was there in total, for a 50 year comparison.


Now regarding your specific picks:


I love both Ali and Usyk. But it’s debatable. Ali had a better HW resume, and he was still great. But obviously he had slipped at that point, where he was on the slide.

I cannot rank Fabio Wardley over Ken Norton.

I don’t think that I could rank Martin Bakole over Earnie Shavers either.

I’m also a big fan of Agit Kabayel. Although he hasn’t done that much yet. Young was a good fighter, who beat Lyle and Foreman.

Again, Holmes and Quarry were active in 1975, and they are better than the fighters on the second half of your list.

Quarry even has a win over a guy on your list.

I’m a fan of Gassiev, but he’s only had 6/7 fights at the weight.

Again, Itauma and Torrez haven’t done anything yet.


So there’s 3 things to consider:

1. If you didn’t chose just Wardley and Bakole, then it wouldn’t be a win for you.

2. If Larry and Quarry were added, then there’s no way that you could have a score in your favour.

3. It clearly shows, that even after 50 years, there has been absolutely no noticeable evolution.


Again, the boxing world simply ebbs and flows, as it’s done for decades now.

Now surely you can see this.

Otherwise, it would have been a landslide victory for you.

 

The broader point is, there is not much difference in class between most of the top contenders from 1975 and 2025.