american HW's vs Russian HW's

Not even Wlad compares. He hasn't proven nothing more than he's easy to knock out. It doesn't take a beating all night long to finish him off. End of story, end of post. lol ...End of your green bar. :banana:

Americans are so biased to thier own fighters it makes me sick. The answer is YES ofcourse they could have.

Teofilo Stevenson and Felix Savon are two HW's who could've possibly done great as pro's. The Soviet amateurs didn't have much success against the top American HW's in the Olympics. George Foreman vs Ionas Chepulis

But it is a shame that the best American HWs didn't fight in an open era. Agreed, the world will never know if maybe, just maybe there was someone on the other side as good as these guys at the time.

Not even Wlad compares. He hasn't proven nothing more than he's easy to knock out. It doesn't take a beating all night long to finish him off. End of story, end of post. lol

But it is a shame that the best American HWs didn't fight in an open era.

It's an impossible question to answer. While the ATGs were being badasses in the 70s, the Soviets and Cubans were forbidden from going pro. Felix Savon - Cuban who won 3 gold medals in either the heavyweight or super heavyweight division (can't remember which one). He never went pro because he couldn't. Soviets are much the same way. This may be the best batch of pro talent from Eastern Europe there have ever been in the heavyweight division, or this could be average for them. We will never know, because so many fighters didn't get their chance to turn pro.

Well you can't take one current crop and put them against a 100 year all star team.