HW prospects..

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

begs the question "If the Cold War was still going, who would be heavyweight champion and how good would they be?"

It also beg's the question 'what if the eastern europeans had always fought pro?' imagine the fighters (with the right management etc) we have missed out on! The americans would not have been so dominant...

-Aleksandr Miroshnichenko stopped lennox lewis as an amateur. Also beat riddick bowe up (flooring him twice!).
-Igor vygotsky twice defeated the great cuban teofilio stevenson. Also stopped tony tubbs and mitch green etc.

One of the best came in the form of a potential challenger to Joe Louis, who could use all he could get in al honesty!

That was legendary Soviet Korolev Nikolai Federovich, Born February 14th 1917 and died February 12th 1974. He was a 4 -time Absolute Soviet Champion (1936,1937,1944, 1945), a 9 time Champion of the USSR (1936-1939,1945-1949) and Champion of the 1937 Socialist Olympics in Antwerp (The Russian alternative to the boycotted 1936 games in Berlin hosted by Nazi Germany), but he never got to go pro to really prove his stuff settling for a 110-14-2 record as a Russian hero.

See? What if.....