Wlad Klitschko Ranks As The 50th Greatest Heavyweight Of All Time

[StarshipTrooper]

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[Scott9945]

Is Wladimir's career over? When it is he'll be well above #50 on almost every list.

[StarshipTrooper]

Is Wladimir's career over? When it is he'll be well above #50 on almost every list.

Only on the nuthugger's lists

Poet

[Scott9945]

Only on the nuthugger's lists

Poet

I could say the opposite and use the word "haters", but what would be the point? You're no doubt going to be calling a lot of respected boxing writers nuthuggers. Like Lennox Lewis, he'll get his due after his career has ended.

[Suckmedry]

Wlad isn't a top 10, 15 or probably even 20 ranked HW. I would have him around 25ish, maybe a little higher

[BennyST]

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Come on mate. Don't let his moronic fans cloud your judgement of him as a boxer. You're smarter than that.

I could say the opposite and use the word "haters", but what would be the point? You're no doubt going to be calling a lot of respected boxing writers nuthuggers. Like Lennox Lewis, he'll get his due after his career has ended.

Yeah, I agree. He will be recognised as a HW great, and a very good one at that, later on. He'll never reach the heights it may have been possible for him to reach because of the era he was fighting in but he did everything a great champion needs do to in such an era which is to beat everyone he faced and show a genuine dominance in doing so over the next best fighters, even if they were all a bit ****.

It's unfortunate for fighters that are in bad eras but they can only do what he has done and while we will never know how good he really was, the dominance he has shown is very rare no matter the era and is something only a great champion could do in all reality.

I don't know whether he'll crack the top ten but if he beats Haye, Povetkin, Adamek....errr....etc, which won't be hard for him unfortunately it's highly possible. If he wanted to make certain of it the only guy who could do that for him is his own brother and we know that they'll never fight.

[Scott9945]

Come on mate. Don't let his moronic fans cloud your judgement of him as a boxer. You're smarter than that.



Yeah, I agree. He will be recognised as a HW great, and a very good one at that, later on. He'll never reach the heights it may have been possible for him to reach because of the era he was fighting in but he did everything a great champion needs do to in such an era which is to beat everyone he faced and show a genuine dominance in doing so over the next best fighters, even if they were all a bit ****.

It's unfortunate for fighters that are in bad eras but they can only do what he has done and while we will never know how good he really was, the dominance he has shown is very rare no matter the era and is something only a great champion could do in all reality.

I don't know whether he'll crack the top ten but if he beats Haye, Povetkin, Adamek....errr....etc, which won't be hard for him unfortunately it's highly possible. If he wanted to make certain of it the only guy who could do that for him is his own brother and we know that they'll never fight.

Excellent post as always Benny. But I hate the idea of any two brothers ever fighting. It's just wrong on so many levels.

[Suckmedry]

Excellent post as always Benny. But I hate the idea of any two brothers ever fighting. It's just wrong on so many levels.

Why? ................

[Scott9945]

Why? ................

Well first, the obvious reason that it is morally wrong for brothers to be trying to knock each other out for money. It's not the same as Venus and Serena playing tennis.

But my major concern is that if the fight disappointed actionwise, or if the ending looked suspect, you know how hard the s*it would hit the fan. Boxing would suffer in the mainstream, and people who paid for it would feel cheated. I just see a lot more downside than upside.

[BennyST]

Excellent post as always Benny. But I hate the idea of any two brothers ever fighting. It's just wrong on so many levels.

No man, I agree completely. I could never fight my own brothers in the ring even though we had some serious, brutal fights at home when we were young. Two brothers fighting for money and an audiences entertainment is simply wrong on so many levels, as you said.

Vit is the only fighter that could made him crack the top ten though with certainty, but as I said, it'll never happen and rightfully so as no brothers should fight.