#1 If Kenny Fuckin Powers didn't say it then it don't mean shit!
#2 "Wlad would be very intimidated before the first bell even rang".....that is an assumption and a bad one at that because at no one point in time throughout his career have I ever seen Wladimir look intimidated before the opening bell. I highly doubt Tyson would have had that effect on him either. Would Wlad be wary of Tyson's hand speed and KO power, yes....intimidated by his rough house tactics and aura? No.
#3 Agreed in that he'd be a heavy favorite but I disagree with the rest. Who says Lennox was "fat and out of shape"...the Kirk Johnson fight was going to be his big send off. Did he not train to fight Vitali? Yes, but Vitali had been training to fight Cedric Boswell, so give that trite old story up about the "fat out of shape Lewis" he was THE CHAMP and THE CHAMP always comes to fight....that was his job.
#4 You can ASSUME Holyfield would work on the inside all you like, but I remind you that both Wlad and Vitali work on the outside and they can stay there if they so choose, they'd be very happy to stay there vs Evander. Tough fight but the point I am getting at is "On any given day, The Klitschko's are good enough to compete vs the greats" it doesn't mean they'd win it means they can hold their own and yes that means Holyfield who had imense trouble with Michael Dokes and just looked horrible vs Moorer and Bowe in the rubber match.
#5 Bowe NEVER FOUGHT A POWER PUNCHER....and I do believe there was a very good reason for that. See Lennox Lewis vs Bowe in the amateurs. Bowe never fought Tyson, never fought Briggs, never fought Mercer, never fought Tua, never fought Moorer, never fought Morrison....he avoided or ducked anybody with any power at all. Look at his record, I think maybe Pierre Coetzer had the highest KO% of all the fighters on Riddick's resume. As for Morrison and Mercer...Tommy was game as they come and had plenty of pop, but he was a so-so BOXER, couldn't take a good punch, and often threw wide and wild and tuckered himself out to where he was breathing through his open mouth (hence the broken jaw that Hipp gave him). Mercer was as inconsistent as they come, 1 night he could weather a storm vs Morrison and come back and win, other nights he did just enough to lose like vs Lewis, other nights he got outboxed EASILY vs an ancient Larry Holmes. So if OLD Larry Holmes can outbox Ray why couldn't Wladimir? Wlad's faster on his feet at this point than Larry was, Wlad has a better jab at this point than Larry did in the 1990's. Could Ray pressure Wlad, sure, could he go the distance, sure, but would he beat Wlad? More often than not Ray would lose.
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