Vitali's mythical poor resume pt 2
To follow up on my post a couple weeks ago, Vitali is more than a year since his last fight, and with prospect of fighting a mega fight against the winner of Haye Fury looking dim now, I suspect will prove to have fought his last fight. Nevertheless, even in his semi or permanently retired state, if you look over at Boxrec's ranking of active HW's, there are currently 4 Vitali victims in the top 10, and 0 Wlad victims. Its become a trendy thing to say Vitali has a significantly weaker resume than his brother, but like so much of conventional wisdom, there's no truth to that. Even now, when Sanders and Peter, easily the best non K's of the K era, and whom he performed much more impressively than his brother, are long retired, his other opponents are still outshining WK's active opponents. Granted boxrec isn't perfect, but it is the best, most scientific ranking body out there, by far. It illustrates that those top 4 opponents have faced and beaten more top opponents than Wlad's victims have at this point, even if those they've beaten don't have the "names" that mean so much to some fans. While the hater boxing nostalgiast nonfan will keep hating (and make no mistake, most Wlad "fans" who say he has the best resume between the two really don't particularly like Wlad either, they just like to say the weaker brother had the stronger resume, thereby discrediting both brothers) I'm confident real boxing fans and boxing historians will remember Vitali for the dominant, top 10 all time great HW champ he was. Apart from having beaten the top fighters of the Klitschko era, the fact that he's the only top 25 HW to have never been knocked down, the fact he has the 2nd highest ko ratio in history, and the fact he likely has the highest rounds won percentage in history, all show what a special champ he's been.