How good were the heavyweights Tyson fought?

[brownpimp88]

It really leaves me lost when people say Valuev is a good champion. He's better than Maskaev and Briggs? I'd favor either of them against Valuev, honestly.

I dont think so man, oleg and shannon are like the wbo champs from the 90's. Valuev and wladimir are marketable and they are decent. Imagine if he beats rocco's record, haha.

People say tyson fought nobody, its ridiculous. Beating spinks was more impressive than the old guys beating the 175ers of thier era cuz spinks was a unified 175 champ and he became linear heavyweight champ for 3 years, thats a legend. Plus tucker in his prime would beat guys like braddock, carnera, sharkey, floyd patterson and johanssen. Having a win over a 38 year old holmes is decent, he was still game.

[hugh grant]

I remember when Tyson beat Holmes, there was a general feeling that it wasnt that impressvie because Holmes was old. Still good i bet...but old.
I dont recall that Tyson thought that Holmes was any good in that fight or that it was hard for him to beat Holmes?

[-Antonio-]

Bruno could probably be champ today as well.

[GunStar]

In all honesty I think the last great HW division was in Ali's era.

[Njord777]

I dont think so man, oleg and shannon are like the wbo champs from the 90's. Valuev and wladimir are marketable and they are decent. Imagine if he beats rocco's record, haha.

People say tyson fought nobody, its ridiculous. Beating spinks was more impressive than the old guys beating the 175ers of thier era cuz spinks was a unified 175 champ and he became linear heavyweight champ for 3 years, thats a legend. Plus tucker in his prime would beat guys like braddock, carnera, sharkey, floyd patterson and johanssen. Having a win over a 38 year old holmes is decent, he was still game.

I'm going to go ahead and disagree- especially with Briggs. I mean Valuev is plodding. Due to his size he has developed a style of throwing a very minuscule amount of punches per round- and he's slow to boot with not much movement. Shannon is older, yes, but he has power. He usually runs into trouble when he can't get a guy out early. I believe Briggs would KO Valuev.

I'm just going to agree to disagree. I think the name Valuev is going to fade away when we get over his height.