Ring-ranked heavyweight top ten contenders during the eighties included Leon Spinks, Marty Monroe, Bernardo Mercado, Quick Tillis, Tex Cobb, Renaldo Snipes, David Bey, John Tate, James Broad, Adilson Rodrigues and Tyrell Biggs. I highly doubt Klitschko could break in with that kind of talent. They're all better than Ross Puritty, you could argue.
Not just top 10 but top 3.By the end of the decade He would be #2 just behind Tyson in my opinion. Haters are gonna disagree but I think he'd beat Holmes.
Easily. 80's is the worst of the modern eras. At least 5 current fighters right now would clean out the division.
He'd be a perennial top 5 Heavyweight and the 4th best overall Heavyweight of the 80's if he was matched correctly and kept away from the punchers/pressure fighters of the era like Cooney, Weaver, Bonecrusher Smith, Bruno, Tucker, Terrible Tim etc. If not, after the conclusion of the decade, he would have somewhere in the neighborhood of 7-10 losses (because you would have to assume he would slip up against a journeyman or 2 along the way).