Why will Wlad never be considered a great HW?

[KostyaTszyu44]

Because of his lack of excitement and fighting heart, or his lack of charisma

or his robotic and boring style?

or is it the lack of talent in the division at the moment??

theres so many options to choose from here, im in over my head......


discuss and vote

[larryx]

personality goes along way in show buisness

[Knighte]

How about all his ****ing KO losses?

[larryx]

but it has 0 to do with his record or resume..cause he's cleaning out the division and ko people like a heavyweight champ should so hey

[Low Blow Armo]

Cause he's a ***** and always will be.

[larryx]

How about all his ****ing KO losses?

what???lennox lewis was ko'd twice a true champ comes back and better..get ya mind right..

[Steelhammer2K9]

Another pathetic Wlad hate thread

Wlad IS a great heavyweight and a future hall of famer.

[ИATAS]

pretty much all of the above. Part of it isn't really his fault though, which is him never beating a great heavyweight, simply because he fights in an era where there really are no great heavyweights. I mean what's the best name on his resume?? Chris Byrd? Hasim Rahman? Ray Mercer?

But I think he would have got away with that fact if he was more exciting and dominated in an exciting fashion. Like against Ibragimov...if he would have showed some damn heart and knocked him the hell out like he could have done and finished Tony Thompson sooner, etc. he would have a TON more respect. Some will say he fights smart, well no I disagree he fights like he's scared. I mean it was clear Ibragimov wasn't going to do **** to Wlad after a couple rounds, and yet Wlad just kept sitting there throwing his jab from a safe distance *****g the crowd to sleep. Show us some heart, some excitement and you'll get your respect.

[KESSLER]

Another Wlad hate thread by little sorry ass loser.

[Brother Naazim]

Because most people find his "no risk" approach to the sport to be boring. You've gotta risk something in order to be rewarded.

Then again, people had this very same perception of Lennox Lewis during his time at the top, and look how the opinion has reversed with time. Lennox is almost universally recognized at a top 10 Heavyweight ATG by most people's standards these days.

Lennox got slighted because of the weakness of his era, most people defined that era as the era "post Tyson". Wlad gets slighted now because most people define this era as "post Lewis".