Originally posted by Own3d
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And the reason why you cannot say (like you do) "at any time in their careers" is because Wlad's opponents' careers aren't over yet. Additionally I excluded 1-time-champs who became champs only by winning against you: For example you credit Lennox with Rahman, hence you converted Lennox loss to a pluspoint in this statistic. Additionally I specified "worldchampionship wins" since that somewhat guarantees that your (former) champ is still a quality opponent and not completely shot.
So you introduced 3 unfairnesses which I excluded since I try to be as objective and as fair to boxers as possible.
But my post was supposed to be a short remark only and not a stat table.
The fact remains, that a statement like "Wlad is not fighting top guys hence this era sucks" can not be further from the truth. This is one of the best heavyweight eras, Wlad is one of the most active champs who fights some of the most excellent opponents since heavyweight history, as opposed to Ali for example, who in his title fights mostly chose to fight bummy opponents (e.g. Chuvalo 34-11) or handicaps (Joe Frazier, Cleveland Williams) or greens (Spinks) or B-level opponents (Ken Norton) or absolute featherfists (Terrell, Wepner etc).
Lennox era was top class, too. Ali's wasn't.
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