Thread: Where do you rank Wladimir Klitschko among the ATG heavyweights?

How would you rate his career up until the end of 2014?

I think he's well into the all-time top ten now, arguably in the top 5.

He's only 8 fights away from Joe Louis record of 25 title defences

Who thinks he can do it..?

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/heavywe...7956--box.html

Full Fight here

He's top 10 for sure. Over 10 years of undefeated dominance, 18 years with only 3 losses, and despite what people think, he's fought some serious competition.

Give me Wlad's competition over Joe Louis' any day of the week.

He can go anywhere between 9 and 11 depending on how you rate Johnson, Dempsey ahead of behind him.

I voted top 15. But could be in the lower half of the bottom 10.

Total wins, successful title defenses, reclaiming the title, getting up from the canvas to win, getting a KO late in a title fight....

Wladimir is an All-Time Great, top 10 no doubt

The knock on Wlad will always be that he has no hall of famers on his CV. I would have to look at the list, but one has to think bottom 10 to 20.

Give or take one or two, these guys probably all rank above him:

Dempsey, Johnson, Ali, Louis, Foreman, Lewis, Holyfield, Marciano, Jeffries, and Holmes. I'm not saying about head to head, but on legacy and resume, I'm not sure how you rank him above most of those guys.

With that said, his ranking might improve if he smashes through the Holmes and Louis records. However, his ranking might also be cast in stone because are wins over Jennings, Wilder, Stiverne, Fury, Chisora, Huck any better than the guys he's already faced like Povetkin, Pulev etc.? I would argue that they aren't.

He is outside the top 10 because of his defeats which are embarrassing. He has improved but takes far too long to beat opponents that he should easily beat. His consistency and the way he conducts himself is all credit to him.

We always get these threads after Wlad kos another inept heavyweight.
No way in top ten.

Originally Posted by roberto duran legend

We always get these threads after Wlad kos another inept heavyweight.
No way in top ten.

Inept? You act like Pulev was of the same ilk as Lepai....both earned their shots legitimately but Pulev was undefeated, fought some decent competition, looked like the best challenger out of the entire division......if Pulev looked "inept" it's because Wladimir MADE HIM LOOK INEPT.

10 years, 17 consecutive successful title defenses....only 2 heavyweights can boast better or even similar Championship reigns....Larry Holmes and Joe Louis....they are top 10 greats no questions asked and so is Wladimir.

Top 10 for me.

Found this article on Wladimir.
Wladimir Klitschko Would've Been A Title Threat In Any Era

For me, he has been to 10 ever since he unified.

Originally Posted by roberto duran legend

We always get these threads after Wlad kos another inept heavyweight.
No way in top ten.

I also used to think this but he deserves to be put in the top ten but not in the top five.

Wherever he is in the top ten vitali is in a better position.

I would put Wlad in the top 15 but I'd put his jab in the top five.

If a flagrantly out of shape Lennox busted his brother open- needing a bazillion stitches. A Prime Lewis does to him what Vitali did to Shannon the cannon-mouth.

Ali 64-67 was too fast, too talented, with masterful reflexes.

Since styles make fights, earnie Shavers who lost his biggest fights would've stopped Wladimir IMO.

I'm not sure about Holmes, or even Tyson. If a prime Tyson couldn't stop Ruddock (legit) like fight two which went 12 rounds...Both K2's could've...maybe defeated Tyson.

Steward did a masterful job with Lewis and so, too Wlad.
Simply masterful.

Originally Posted by SlimTrae

Since styles make fights, earnie Shavers who lost his biggest fights would've stopped Wladimir IMO.

I'm not sure about Holmes, or even Tyson. If a prime Tyson couldn't stop Ruddock (legit) like fight two which went 12 rounds...Both K2's could've...maybe defeated Tyson.

Shavers would be lucky to have lasted past 3 with Wlad. He was a bum.