wladimir klitschko's dominance is out of this world

Champs
Wlad 6'6 238-249
Lewis 6'5 229-256
Bowe 6'5 235-252
Holyfield 6'2.5 208-221
Tyson 5'10 216-222
Spinks 6'2.5 199-212
Holmes 6'3 209-217
Foreman 6'3.5 217-226
Frazier 5'11.5 203-217
Ali 6'3 206-214/215-230
Liston 6'0.5 213-218
Patterson 6'0 182-196
Louis 6'2 196-213

Opponents:
Shavers 6'0 206-213
Chuvalo 6'0 208-221
Quarry 6'0 193-207
Ellis 6'1 189-201
Williams 6'3 210
Lyle 6'3 211-220
Norton 6'3 205-225
Mathis 6'3 232-263
Wepner 6'5 215-228
C00ney 6'5 224-238
Terrell 6'6 199-212

Current Heavyweights:
Povetkin 6'2 224-231
Stiverne 6'2 238-248
Cunningham 6'3 203-210
Jennings 6'3 222-227
Pulev 6'4.5 245
Joshua 6'6 229-240
Wilder 6'6.5 223-229
Price 6'8 245-252
Fury 6'9 245-264

Beat Wlad Over 10 Years Ago:
Purritty 6'3 249
Sanders 6'4 225
Brewster 6'2 226

Wlad's Smallest Opponent:
Chambers 6'1 209


OK so size isn't everything, but it's definitely something. If you look at a lot of great heavyweights, they took more losses when they stepped up the weight of their opponents. Keep in mind that Crawford and Alvarez cut 18lb, Salido 19lb, JCC Jr. over 20...so any heavyweight under 220 could easily make cruiser.

Against Wlad, you're asking guys who are used to opponents being 6'0-6'3 195-225, with 6'3/225lb being considered HUGE to fight a guy who is 6'6/245lb AND more skilled than the smaller guys. His weakness is a poor chin but his strength is his defense, jab, fitness, and power. Even the biggest guys back in the day generally had a huge disadvantage in skills and conditioning....you could get to them with no problem, they couldn't touch you, and they'd wear down easily.

I just think what the modern heavyweight era may lack in skills and action fights it makes up for in athleticism and size. And I think Wlad's skillset is better than anyone except Ali, Louis, Tyson, Holyfield, and maybe Lewis...but his size advantage more than compensates for that in most cases. I think he'd mow down most of the other guys except the ones I mentioned before (Bowe, Lewis, Holyfield, and Tyson because of the way their skillsets and/or size match up).

 

There is also the mental aspect which would favor Wlad against Bowe and Tyson. Bowe and Tyson were mentally fragile when faced with real adversity in the ring. Tyson was easily frustrated when outboxed and hurt and would resort to fouling a superior boxer and get disqualified. Bowe was a real nutcase who ate like a pig between fights and never trained properly. The guy kidnapped his own wife, for goodness sake. Wlad would dominate them mentally before the fight even started and outbox them easily with his superior technical boxing skills, hurt them with his two-fisted power later in the fight and out point them badly or knock them out late. They might well take the easy route and get dirty and get themselves DQ'ed to avoid the inevitable beat down from Wlad.

 

Wlad prime is between 2007-2012. Atleast i think that. The improvement of Wlad can be seen easy, Wlad vs Peter 1 and Wlad vs Peter 2 can show us this easy and everybody who watch boxing carefully can see the difference in Klitschko. He improve so much in that period, its just not real.
Loudon, i do rate him high. I think he is a great boxer, but he got to prove this in his next fights.
I rate high and Povetkin. But i also think if Povetkin didnt duck Wlad for so long and didnt delay the match so long and face Wlad in 2010 he would be annihilated and KTFO. In my eyes Wlad looks very unbeatable in that period(2007-2012). His movement was superb, reflexes, speed, cardio, all, now he still got the speed and power, but he relies more on clinches, but he is 38 years old and its normal his cardio to not be the same, as well his movement. And lets not forget the great late Many is not with him anymore as well in the Povetkin fight.
Povetkin was waiting Wlad to get old, but he still lose.
And for Wlad loses, 2 of his loses was do to fatigue issue. The one with Brewster was strange as hell tho. And late Sanders KTFO Wlad, and Klitschko learn his lesson well and understand that if he want to be champion, he need good defense as well and cant go into wild exchanges with everyone, and that his chin isnt that good. I dont think tho his chin is from glass, but its not a strong one as well.

 

Spot on, 100% co-sign :deal

 

Are you going to tell me who today would knock the sh*t out of Michael Spinks etc?

Look at today's top 20.

Wlad's the King.

Wilder, Joshua and Fury are still prospects, who as yet, haven't achieved anything.

Most of the others are good fighters, but nobody is great.

You've made a bold statement.

Do you seriously think guys like Arreola, Pulev, and Chisora etc, would have hammered Spinks and Joe Frazier?

 

I can respect the above.

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