Is Wlad the most underrated hw champ ever?

[Derranged_]

I think when Wlad calls it a career, then we'll be able to analyze his status in heavyweight boxing history. I think Wlad has a lot of fights left, and depending on how those fight turn out will largely impact whether he's considered an ATG hw or not. I think right now is too early to say..

[MARKBNLV]

Holmes is considered a top 10 hw ATG I wouldn't call that underrated. Also Holmes for one reason or another ducked some of the best hws of his era. Who has Wlad ducked? The only top hws he never fought was Lewis and his brother from his era.

Who did he duck,**** he fought Tyson way out of shape,Holmes is very underated,ill say bowe was as well.

[Home town hero]

[QUOTE=Sudo;5840982]It's about competition...

Lewis had Tyson, Holyfield...

Ali had Frazier, Foreman...

Klitschko has Valuev, Rahman, Chagaev...[/QUOTE/]

Yep i dont think we will ever find out how good wlad is. If he had a chin he could be top 10 but he hasnt got the opponents to get up their.

[MARKBNLV]

Lennox Lewis is the most under-rated heavyweight champ of all time by Americans

who says that you,Lewis was the best of the last 20 years

[The Hammer]

this is the weakest era for the heavyweight division. he is rated where he should be. top 50

I don't agree. The weakest eras were the 1940s and 1980s. The 90s are overrated.

Some people with an anti-European agenda keep saying it's the weakest era.

[catalinul]

Wlad has stopped something like 14 fighters who were never stopped before. Who has Lewis stopped that had never been stopped before?

Wlad has never been counted out, Lewis has been counted out twice.

Wlad has more KOs. He's defeated more heavyweights who were ranked in the Ring top 10 at the time he fought them.

Wlad has taken a lot more "0"s: Brock, Peter, Chagaev, Ibragimov, Castillo, etc.

Lewis had an even greater reach advantage over his opponents (including Vitali) than Wlad, with his 29" arms and 84" reach.

Lennox's biggest wins were over the past-prime Tyson and the past-best Holyfield.

Lennox often resorted to dirty tactics (holding opponents arms, kidney punches, deliberate heat-butts to open cuts over the eye) while Wlad has won his fight fairly.

Lewis's resume is 10 times stronger than Klitschko's.

[arargh]

who says that you,Lewis was the best of the last 20 years

americans HATE Lennox Lewis and will NEVER give him to respect he deserves because he is brittish. Lennox Lewis is a legit top 10 heavyweight of all time but to yall americans he was just a hyped up brittish euro bum right?

[MARKBNLV]

Considering he's beaten most of the other strap holders and seems pretty solid right now is his past reputation and some fans hatred of the best hw right now the reason so many underrate him? I think if you compare him to Lewis Wlad looks just as good as the last dominant hw champ.

Lewis fought very talented dudes ,those guys are not in the same ballpark.

[MARKBNLV]

americans HATE Lennox Lewis and will NEVER give him to respect he deserves because he is brittish. Lennox Lewis is a legit top 10 heavyweight of all time but to yall americans he was just a hyped up brittish euro bum right?

no i just said he was the best of the last 20 years fcking ******.

[paul750]

Klitschko could knock 6 or 7 of his next opponents out in the first round, but as long as they're of the calibre he's been fighting, he'll have proven nothing.

He should have tried his best to fight Sanders. It could have been a non title fight or anything. But he needed to fight him. He was mucking around with a Rahman well past his best - a Rahman who Lewis finished in 4 rounds years ago when he was in his prime.