Face it Tunney, Wlad has never beaten top opposition, and will NEVER be accepted as an ATG or p4p top ten. Ever.
Face it: Wlad _IS_ already ATG.
He has KOed more opponents in heavyweight world titles (200+ lbs) than Joe Louis, Foreman, Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson or Rocky Marciano.
Has a higher KOratio than Mike Tyson.
Has won more heavyweight world title fights than Evander Holyfield.
Is one of the heavies (with 50+ fights) with the least unavenged losses ever.
If that isn't enough for you to qualify for ATG then you need to recheck your thresholds.
Whom has Marciano beaten? 37-year-old shot Joe Louis? Or featherfisty 180 lbs La Starza? How in the world can Rocky Marciano be an ATG and Wlad not?
OH I KNOW: "Because his opponents didn't come to win?" WRONG. Wlad made them look like stiffs. Why do we know? Because we know them from non-Wlad fights. Wlad beats good opponents into submission.
Oh, wait a sec: If Wlad would be WEAKER (= his opponents would look stronger) THEN OF COURSE Wlad would be ATG material. When Ali loses against Frazier and then wins against Frazier than Ali is soooo great. If Wlad wouldn't have lost against Frazier in the first place then everyone would be "Frazier didn't come to win" and "Frazier is a stiff".
YES. Wlad should already be in the top 10 p4p, he is one of the most dominant fighters in the world...He is the IBF/WBO/IBO Unified Heavyweight Champion of the world, has 46 KO's in 52 wins.
This is what Wlad's resume will look like after he beats Chagaev and wins the RING Belt:
- IBF/WBO/IBO/WBA/RING Heavyweight champion of the world.
- 14 dominant title defences
- has defeated 7 former world heavyweight champions (Chris Byrd twice, Samuel Peter, Lamon Brewster, Sultan Ibragimov, Ray Mercer, Hasim Rahman, Ruslan Chagaev)
- has defeated tons of top contenders (Calvin Brock, Jameel McCline, Tony Thompson, Monte Barrett, Ray Austin, Axel Schulz, DaVarryl Williamson, Francois Botha, Charles Shufford, David Bostice, Derrick Jefferson, etc)
wba title is not on the line,wba made valuev their champion
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