Greatest Southpaw Heavyweight Champion (besides Moorer)?
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Wlad who had already lost to Purrity and would go on to get stopped by Brewster? Of course Holyfield was a better win. He had only lost to Bowe, who was FAR better than Wlad at those points of their careers. Wlad did improve until Manny Steward helped him perfect his hit and clinch style.Comment
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He kept pushing the two nitwits down the drain telling them "English mother ------" I could hear them gurgling as he slapped the taste out of their mouths... He took out a large firearm...around that time I came out of it... s h it was flying everwhere from the tank! people looked on in horror, one women dropped her slurpy and fainted, I could not stand the smell! I ran! the tank laughed and chased after me...
Sheesh! I hate trailers.Comment
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I think it's clear Byrd has won the poll with Sanders in second. Fair enough.
I do think Sultan Ibragimov had a decent run. He got dominated by Wlad but he fought reigning champion Shannon Briggs, Evander Holyfield, and then unified champion Wladimir Klitschko in an eight month span to end his career. And yeah, Holy was old, but in his very next fight he got robbed in a world title fight against Valuev.
Chagaev only had one signature win (Valuev), but he also only lost to prime Wlad and prime Povetkin (besides the Lucas Browne fight, but I don't really count that because Chagaev was nearly blind in one eye by that time and Browne popped for PEDs anyway).
So in summation, I think five of the six southpaw heavyweight champions were very respectable champs in their eras.
And then there's Charles Martin.Comment
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I think it's clear Byrd has won the poll with Sanders in second. Fair enough.
I do think Sultan Ibragimov had a decent run. He got dominated by Wlad but he fought reigning champion Shannon Briggs, Evander Holyfield, and then unified champion Wladimir Klitschko in an eight month span to end his career. And yeah, Holy was old, but in his very next fight he got robbed in a world title fight against Valuev.
Chagaev only had one signature win (Valuev), but he also only lost to prime Wlad and prime Povetkin (besides the Lucas Browne fight, but I don't really count that because Chagaev was nearly blind in one eye by that time and Browne popped for PEDs anyway).
So in summation, I think five of the six southpaw heavyweight champions were very respectable champs in their eras.
And then there's Charles Martin.
Sultan was very good with American scalps, but retired early, so somewhat forgotten.Comment
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