Mythical Matchup: Wlad vs. The World

[beez721]

Ike took hundreds of brutal punches from a prime David Tua. You can't be serious.

lol,,tua couldnt hurt little chris byrd for christs sakes who was mopped up by wlad 2 times!

[Knicksman20]

And who else? In fact who else did he fight? Other than a blown up MW.

Come on Run. This is the same Byrd that had only lost to Wlad & was beating everyone one else after that. Byrd's style was ugly to watch but he was beating guys pretty convincingly up until his fight with Oquendo.

[duffgun]

LMFAO.

Ibeabuchi is so overrated. Wlad in a fantasy match up would have that 1 dimmensional slightly better Rahman out in less than 4 rounds.

Ike was not 1 dimensional, he could box fairly well he had a good jab put combos together quite well had good footwork and had power doesn't sound 1 dimensional to me. you cant be 1 dimensional against someone like chris byrd.

[paul750]

He showed a damn sight more in those two fights than a hell of a lot of people show in their entire careers. He took hundreds of clean punches from Tua. So he needed to keep showing he had a rock solid chin, huh? Did he need to keep showing us he had an amazing punch output, or he had good handspeed, or power, or accuracy? No. He did need to show us that he could face a good tall heavyweight though, I'll admit that.

I know some people take personal factors into things. I don't. I can set that aside and talk objectively about things. A guy can be scum of the earth but if i'm asked an opinion about him as a fighter I'll give that.

[Knicksman20]

lol,,tua couldnt hurt little chris byrd for christs sakes who was mopped up by wlad 2 times!

Let's be fair here. Tua couldn't land **** on Byrd & was totally outclassed that night. Tua also was out of shape & well passed his best. I wouldn't say well passed his best but you could tell his dedication had started slipping.

[Ryn0]

big george

[beez721]

LMFAO.

Ibeabuchi is so overrated. Wlad in a fantasy match up would have that 1 dimmensional slightly better Rahman out in less than 4 rounds.

yep. ike had only 14 ko's in 20 fights yet he's a monster to some becuase he went 10 rounds and won a very close fight with one dimensional david tua and was the first to over power little byrd. the ignorance in this thread is making me sick. glad at least a couple of us have some good sense

[duffgun]

lol,,tua couldnt hurt little chris byrd for christs sakes who was mopped up by wlad 2 times!

well chris byrd was one of the best heavyweights of his period and ike destroyed him in 5 rounds no one else could. wlad took much longer to do it.
back to the subject all of these fights would be wlads hardest fight.

[beez721]

Let's be fair here. Tua couldn't land **** on Byrd & was totally outclassed that night. Tua also was out of shape & well passed his best. I wouldn't say well passed his best but you could tell his dedication had started slipping.

tua wasnt past his best at that point and was in terrific shape at 228 lbs. he did land some shots on byrd but byrd took them. tua's power is overrated. besides ruiz who the hell has he knocked out? friggin hasim no chin rahman went 20 rounds with tua for christ sakes

[beez721]

well chris byrd was one of the best heavyweights of his period and ike destroyed him in 5 rounds no one else could. wlad took much longer to do it.
back to the subject all of these fights would be wlads hardest fight.

wlad dominated every round with byrd whereas byrd was giving ike problems until he caught byrd against the ropes. wlad is more patient than ike and would have got byrd out sooner if he was more agressive. wlad beat byrd more impressively in my opinion. I had the ike byrd fight even until the knockout