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I've never in my life been all that impressed with the brothers.
Vitali's showing against Old'un Lewis was the best thing either one of them did. Vitali won the boxing match, I reckon, but the stoppage was fair because Lennox was taxing that ass something ferocious.
After that Vitali basically just beat up a string of glorified **** tanks. Chisora was considered a legitimate threat to the HW division because he did better than expected against Vitali....those kinda **** tanks.
Wlad
Wlad got ktfo against lack luster fighters while working on his WBO when the WBO was today's IBO. Then sure enough he did gather him some real titles and while he was champion the WBO got full status so he became the big dog of the division. They even award him lineal status on the grounds of him fighting Chagaev....what ranks have to do with lineal I dunno but they did that so whatever, Wlad was definitely seen as king.
The thing is, is he wasn't even a threat when the HW division was talented. Then the old guys got older and none of the young guys were even in shape let alone talented. So I just wasn't ever impressed with his most impressive era. Who exactly am I meant to be impressed by? Sam Peter? Jean Mormeck? Povetkin? Haye? Thompson? Just a bunch of undersized, over-the-hill, or out of shape HW s who didn't bring much to the table to begin with.
Wlad never took a vol in his career and hid behind easy mandatories that were often advanced to the top ten overnight without fighting or anyone above them losing.
Wlad tried to employ professional techniques early in his career and that got him KO'd by guys he should have beaten so Manny brought him back to basics and made him stick to an amatuer style.
No resume, no performance, no technique, nothing about him is worth mention except for a long time he was top dog.
I think Fury would have kicked a prime Wlad's ass and a young Wlad might have even gotten hurt by Fury.
Wilder would KO him
Joshua would have KO'd him at any point in his career as long as Josh did what he did; turn off the boxing and just got punch for punch right at him.
Name the old timer, I favor them over Wlad. Tyson? Holy? Lennox? No doubt. Small guys like Fitzs, Burns, Dempsey, and Marciano? Bet your ass. Kings of the Golden Era of HWs all KO Wlad. Any era that featured a talented champion I'm going with the talented champion. I'll give Wlad the nod against guys like Braddock or Michael Bentt, you know, those guys lucky to ever see a title, but a talented HW is all that was ever needed to beat Wlad.
He got beaten when talent existed and beaten again when it returned to the division. He reigned over a talentless era using amatuer techniques. He's well overrated.
Vitali's showing against Old'un Lewis was the best thing either one of them did. Vitali won the boxing match, I reckon, but the stoppage was fair because Lennox was taxing that ass something ferocious.
After that Vitali basically just beat up a string of glorified **** tanks. Chisora was considered a legitimate threat to the HW division because he did better than expected against Vitali....those kinda **** tanks.
Wlad
Wlad got ktfo against lack luster fighters while working on his WBO when the WBO was today's IBO. Then sure enough he did gather him some real titles and while he was champion the WBO got full status so he became the big dog of the division. They even award him lineal status on the grounds of him fighting Chagaev....what ranks have to do with lineal I dunno but they did that so whatever, Wlad was definitely seen as king. The thing is, is he wasn't even a threat when the HW division was talented. Then the old guys got older and none of the young guys were even in shape let alone talented. So I just wasn't ever impressed with his most impressive era. Who exactly am I meant to be impressed by? Sam Peter? Jean Mormeck? Povetkin? Haye? Thompson? Just a bunch of undersized, over-the-hill, or out of shape HW s who didn't bring much to the table to begin with.
Wlad never took a vol in his career and hid behind easy mandatories that were often advanced to the top ten overnight without fighting or anyone above them losing.
Wlad tried to employ professional techniques early in his career and that got him KO'd by guys he should have beaten so Manny brought him back to basics and made him stick to an amatuer style.
No resume, no performance, no technique, nothing about him is worth mention except for a long time he was top dog.
I think Fury would have kicked a prime Wlad's ass and a young Wlad might have even gotten hurt by Fury.
Wilder would KO him
Joshua would have KO'd him at any point in his career as long as Josh did what he did; turn off the boxing and just got punch for punch right at him.
Name the old timer, I favor them over Wlad. Tyson? Holy? Lennox? No doubt. Small guys like Fitzs, Burns, Dempsey, and Marciano? Bet your ass. Kings of the Golden Era of HWs all KO Wlad. Any era that featured a talented champion I'm going with the talented champion. I'll give Wlad the nod against guys like Braddock or Michael Bentt, you know, those guys lucky to ever see a title, but a talented HW is all that was ever needed to beat Wlad.
He got beaten when talent existed and beaten again when it returned to the division. He reigned over a talentless era using amatuer techniques. He's well overrated.
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