I mean, it is funny. Brothers are "hated" because they "fought a poor opposition".
Well, as Fury, Joshua, Wilder entered the scene, guys like Szpilka, Stiverne, Parker, Chisora, Whyte, Wallin..became "elite opposition". Lol, really?
I must remind you that Wladimir beat much better and younger version of Povetkin and Pulev than Joshua did?
Vitali beat Arreola in 2009! And Arreola is still somehow a fringe contender, lol.
This era, the post klitschko era, will be viewed as a golden age of HW boxing. You had the 3-headed chimera in Wilder, Joshua and Fury. Each a monster in their own right. Wilder: the absolutely insane puncher, Joshua the model/athlete fighter, and Fury the gypsy king. Wilder and Fury fought a legendary trilogy. Then you had the cruiser Usyk make his way up and defeat the giant Joshua(the man who ended klitschko's career). It was all very surreal and intense as it was happening.
A joke, right?
Joshua - Usyk is Wladimir - Haye level fight. Just, Wladimir was better than Joshua.
The crowning moment of Vitali's career seems to be getting knocked out in 6/7 rounds by a completely out of shape and finished Lennox Lewis. Let's not forget he also got knocked out by feather-fisted Bryd, then ducked the rematch so the real Klitschko, Wlad, could batter Bryd. Nash out
Klitschko are greats but funny how they dominated the division yet their highlights fights are their losses to AJ/Lewis. Both took an uppcercut well in those fights though
This era, the post klitschko era, will be viewed as a golden age of HW boxing. You had the 3-headed chimera in Wilder, Joshua and Fury. Each a monster in their own right. Wilder: the absolutely insane puncher, Joshua the model/athlete fighter, and Fury the gypsy king. Wilder and Fury fought a legendary trilogy. Then you had the cruiser Usyk make his way up and defeat the giant Joshua(the man who ended klitschko's career). It was all very surreal and intense as it was happening.
What does the Klitschko era have to compare. Vitali is at best a hypothetical ATG based entirely of, really, a losing effort against Lewis. Wladimir? the Haye fight. Wlad's fight against Povetkin was a disaster(Wlad's/ref fault). What else do the Klitschkos have?
What we are seeing now in the HW division culminates in the Fury-Usyk fight probably. ~2016-2023. It will be viewed as a much better, and significantly greater stretch of HW action than ~2005-2015!
I don't miss watching Wladimir hold another man's head in his armpit for 30 minutes.
To be honest, that is not worse than Joshua fighting Franklin in the future, Wilder fighting helenius for 1 round or Fury giving the second rematch to Chisora.
Wilder and Fury are still active boxers, but they already talk about fighting UFC guy Ngannou in a boxing match. man, it is so disappointing.
To be honest, Usyk beating these two would be the best thing for division.
Hell yeah you are.
Don't nobody miss that "jab jab grab" bullshxt over any of these guys.
You'd rather watch that than Deontay Wilder blast people into outer space or Tyson Fury a 6'9 270lb guy with middleweight skills or Usyk?
Really? Are you just trying to be controversial here?
I can’t think of one memorable fight Vitali had post Lewis. Then during Wladimir’s 2nd reign I don’t think he had any memorable fights until after he lost the title’s to Fury.
It wasn’t necessarily the Klitschko bro’s fault, there just wasn’t anyone in the their era who could challenge them. Even fights that were supposed to be competitive they dominated and made pretty boring in all honesty.
I liked seeing Vitali beat a bunch of bums but what did he ever do?
The crowning moment of Vitali's career seems to be getting knocked out in 6/7 rounds by a completely out of shape and finished Lennox Lewis. Let's not forget he also got knocked out by feather-fisted Bryd, then ducked the rematch so the real Klitschko, Wlad, could batter Bryd. Nash out