Where do you rank Wladimir Klitschko among the ATG heavyweights?

[Freedom]

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.

[smashup]

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

Who thinks he can do it..?

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[Beanflicker]

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.

[ykdadamaja]

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.

[El Kabong]

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

[Rantcatrat]

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.

[beenKOed]

Top 15 and every time he fights he's inching up. The closer he gets to the record for title defenses the faster he climbs.
It doesn't matter whether you like his style or not, the man is within reach of another major boxing prize…arguably the biggest.

[walrus]

So den, you don't think Foreman could have beat Wlad?

[El Kabong]

So den, you don't think

No, isn't it obvious?

[Otley]

woo!! woo!!....slow down...Wlad would have struggled beating his older brother let alone a live under dog.....look what happened when vitali klitschko fought a out of shape unfocused Lennox Lewis and then confirm to everyone how any of the Klits would have got into the top 15 let alone top 20??

Job Biscuit (This is ridiculas)!!!!


eh eh!!!

[El Kabong]

Here are ten heavyweights who would have beaten Klitschko and I'm only going to remain in the last 30 years of heavyweights

Lennox Lewis
Mike Tyson
Larry Holmes
Tim Witherspoon
Riddick Bowe
Evander Holfield
Razor Ruddock
Ray Mercer
Frank Bruno
Micheal Spinks

As for ATG heavyweights I think Klitschko would struggle to get in my top 30.

I'll give you Tyson, Lewis, and Holyfield just for argument's sake...but Witherspoon, Bowe, Rudduck, Mercer, Bruno, Spinks, and Larry Holmes?!?!?! That is ridiculous and of course in being specific "I'm only going to remain in the last 30 years of heavyweights" means you're going back to 1984....so yeah 1984 Larry Holmes wouldn't last with Wladimir.