Of course Louis defended often since the competition was very thin at the time. The famous bum of the month club. Joe also lost by KO to Max Schmeling probably that era's version of Corrie Sanders.
They became beltholders cause they beat Wlad .... but I agree with you that saying Brewster and Sanders are nobodies is just plain stupid.
True, they both became beltholders because of their wins over Klitschko but Brewster went on to defend his belt several times including knocking down Golota 3 times in the opening round & a come back win over Krasniqi by KO.
Golota has choked in every single title fight though and froze and been starched quickly so this really isn't very impressive at all.
That I'm agreeing with you Brewster and Sanders are no nobodies, they are durable contenders at least, no worse than other beltholders from different era.
But to be serious, opposite to Golota who is higly consistent (blows all his biggest fights after a good performances) Brewster is inconsitent with good wins over Golota and Krasniqui to total chockers like Meehan or second Wlad fight. So blowing out Golota early is not the same as dominate him for a few rounds then scoring KO ... that never happened, only Tyson after marihuana have a case. However Wlad may be first who would be able to do this.
If Vlad keeps boxng long enough he could become the best heavyweight in boxing history, but time will tell.
....and what about Puritty? :think I must have missed the meeting where it was decided that that loss does not exist any more.
Purity? :rofl If Brewster is a nobody what do you think Purity is? Wlad is obviously HOF, but I still see him as a kind of 'made-in-china' cheap counterfit copy of Vitaly. Wlad is little brother and is not focused enough, not careful enough etc. While they may have more or less the same physique, Vitaly obviously trained more, trained harder, was more focued in and outside of fights etc. etc. Any research on the difference between big brothers and littlebrothers could have actually told us this. Still Wlad has better tools than anyone else for many years. I am not a big fan and would MUCH rather see Vitaly here and Wlad retire.... Wlad is to Vitaly what Muhammed Ali's halfwitted littlebrother Bobo would be to Ali if Bobo had started boxing.
Read my post properly. I was responding to the poster who said Wlad's losses were to fighters "no worse than other beltholders from different era".
Yes, he was decent. But not on the level of "title holders form past eras", and I was just questioning why this loss wasn't being mentioned. Anyway, it doesn't stop Wlad from being HOF-worthy. If he were to retire today, I'm sure he'd still be inducted to the HOF at some stage.
If Wlad unifies all the belts and defeats Povetkin, Chageav than he's probably HOF worthy. It depends on how he looks as well.