Originally posted by -KPB-
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Vitali's problem, and I've written on this before, is that I think everyone thinks (knows?), without injury, he dominates the last six years or so, his bro never gets to the level he's perceived at...but he didn't, and he missed what passed for a lot of the top competition in even this weaker era (one of many in Heavyweight history BTW...there's more weak than not actually). But thinking he would, and seeing it, are two different things.
Consider this question: is Adamek Chad Dawson's best win? Johnson might have a case, right? Even if it is Tomasz, does anyone sane think that makes Dawson an ATG?
Now talk Tomasz (who is, granted, a really good fighter) at Heavyweight, where his best win was an Arreola who STILL has never beaten a single top ten contender. THAT is Vitali's best win.
Vitali is going to the Hall, and he beats a LOT of history's Heavyweights (he'd have owned the division between Louis and Liston, and probably beats Sonny too before Ali comes along). But he had one crack at a great fighter and couldn't match the feats of Rahman and McCall against a Lewis older and in worse shape.
That means something too.
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