Comments Thread For: Briggs: Vitali is Better Than Lennox Lewis, George Foreman

[Dave Rado]

lennox avenged both his loses. have wad? besides brewster how do you know if wlad would have made it pass the 2nd round if they rematch with sanders?

Sanders chose to fight Vitali and then retired soon afterwards. You can't blame Wlad for that. Wlad has improved dramatically since then, under Steward's tutelage. He fights tall now, and he didn't then. Sanders wouldn't get past his jab if the current version of Wlad were to fight him in his prime in a fantasy fight.

Pac hasn't avenged his losses, but who cares? It's hypocritical to hold that against Wlad while not doing the same in the case of Pac.

[check hook]

Are you black?

Vitali is almost 40, he is older than Briggs you moron.

Either Klitschko beats any HW from any era.

The truth hurts.

I don't see how they would possibly beat Tyson, Liston, Frazier, Liston and Ali. I don't think they would beat Lennox either.....and prob not Bowe. I would ptrob back Marciano to beat them aswell.

[Dave Rado]

They are the same fighters, it's just that there are no heavyweights out there that is any good. They would not be as good as they are now if they were in the Tyson, Holifield, Bowe era.

If you really think they haven't improved then you either haven't watched them or you don't know boxing.

[check hook]

Holyfield? Really?

i sort of agree with that.....stylistically they would prob beat him.

[check hook]

Lewis wasn't "over the hill" when he got his ass whooped by Vitali.

Lewis was coming off the KO win overTyson. In the Lewis/Tyson post fight interview Lewis stated "I'm like fine wine, I get better with age"

In an interview right before the Vitali fight, Lewis said "I'm at the peak of my powers" He also said he wanted to keep fighting for a few more years.

Vitali dominated Lewis and scared his bitch ass into retirement.

Love Mike...but lets be serious.....the fight took place almost a decade after Tyson had anythign to offer apart from his name.

[Dave Rado]

i agree.....but what i don't agree with is proclamatins of GOTA status after having beaten......wait for it.......Shannon Briggs.

No one is claiming that beating Briggs gives him GOAT status.

The idiots who think he is the GOAT already thought that before he fought Briggs. And even they don't claim Briggs was a wonderful opponent, just that he couldn't find a better opponent at the time, due to the number of contenders who are saying they aren't ready (such as Adamek, Solis and Povetkin) or who are outright ducking (Haye, Valuev).

[boxer2k5]

once again i say wlad been knocked out 3 times lennox 2 times and he avenged both those times.

[Dave Rado]

Tyson would KO both Klits in under 3 or 4 rds. Stylistically he murders them. They can hang with Holyfield style wise and to a lesser extent Lewis.....but honestly the way Tyson fought these guys would get murdered.

Tyson never fought a really tall Heavyweight who was also athletic and had skills remotely on the level of either Klitschko - apart from Lewis. And he didn't always look good against the tall fighters (other than Lewis) whom he did fight. He was never able to hit Bonecrusher Smith or Tony Tucker with a really clean shot, and both found it easy to tie him up. Douglas destroyed him, although admittedly he was under-trained and unfocussed, but still, it's obvious from his record that a really tall fighter who knows how to fight tall and who is athletic and has a really good jab, would be a stylistic nightmare for Tyson.

[Dave Rado]

once again i say wlad been knocked out 3 times lennox 2 times and he avenged both those times.

And if that counts against him it counts equally against Pac.

And no one who knows boxing would seriously think that the current Steward-tutored version of Wlad isn't much better than Sanders ever was.

[jeremy85]

Vitali has been taking on morbidly obese and unranked opponents ever since he made his return:

Sam Peter: Obese
Gomez: unranked
Chris Areola: Obese
Kevin Johnson: barely ranked, just short of obese
Sosnoski: unranked

^^^
These guys had combined record of 150(100 KO) - 5 at the time they faced Vitaly and yet he completely destroyed every one of them. Name me any champion in history that had 5 consecutive defenses against opponents with that kind of record.