He was past his best when he fought Lennox
Are u saying he was at his best when he went 1-2 with bowe, 1-1 with moorer and could quote easily have a a stoppage loss to bert cooper then? I think the steroids compensated for any small decline from the mid to late 90's.

who was twice the fighter either Klit has or will ever be anyway
Debateable. I believe vitali is a greater H2H fighter than lennox (not greater in an ATG sense but H2H he is more dangerous, lenny found that out when he called him up on 11 days notice....) And wlad (although it took him longer to perfect his craft is every bit as good as lennox is, especially considering he never really ever gets out of 1st gear!) Wladimir klitschko is not inferior to lennox. There common opponents alone prove that. Phil jackson, botha, mercer and rahman.

'Klitschko is as good as any past champion, better than me'
-George foreman

'I've boxed against Lewis and Foreman, I put up my best fight of my career tonight. But Vitali is too quick, he hits hard, harder than all the others, he's a great boxer.'
-Shannon briggs

and Bowe 1 was a week after he walked in a room to find his brother shot dead so I don't think his mind was quite with it for some reason. Bowe 2 for me was Evander at his best as a HW and had it not been for the fan man I felt he was very close to stopping Bowe.
Bowe is overrated anyway. The klitschko's are better. And the fact remains he struggles with elite SHW'S. Yes he will give anyone a fight but...

As for Moorer, yes he got beat but do you really think that he was anywhere near himself? Did you see the state of him in the corner? The rematch told quite a different story, no?
Mate holy always made excuses following losses its common knowledge, he did after he fought bowe and toney! Against moorer first time round it would later surface that the chairman of the medical advisory board for the Nevada State Athletic Commission believed his condition to be consistent with HGH use. Has any champion had as many excuses in defeat as Evander Holyfield? Heart problem's and hepatitus are the usual excuses I think! However, watching a television show hosted by preacher Benny Hinn, Holyfield says he felt his heart heal LOL.

Bad shoulder/heart condition (Moorer)

Hepatitis A (Bowe 3)

Stomach and leg cramps (Lewis 1)

Perforated eardrum (Ruiz)

Shoulder injury (Toney)

Shoulder injury (Donald)

An enormous cut [Sherman Williams]

Read an interview with Tommy Loughran sometime. He never lost a fight in his life, according to him.

The rematch was going the way of the first but the heavier moorer's (He was 10lbs heavier than the 1st fight) china chin got found out again...proves nothing really. PPL forget moorer was fighting @ 175lbs a couple of years prior to fighting holyfield.

To say he would have been finished is underestimating Evander seriously. Also it was NOT a standing 8, the ropes were all that kept him up which is officially a knockdown, and then moments later he was fighting back like a true warrior something that you need to be truly great and something neither Klit has ever shown.
Had mills lane not intervened bert would have pulled off the upset. Sorry but it was obvious.

Every time Wlad has been really hurt he has gone
61 FIGHTS 3 LOSSES.

Purrity was just inexperience, a rookie mistake, sanders is the hardest left handed HW ever, no shame in that considering i.e 180lb cooper flattened ali, and brewster was fatigue and basically used as a sparring partner for the rematch! So how has he GONE? If you are de-legitimizing him based on chins then the likes of patterson, dempsey and louis would have no chance because they were put down much more than wlad and knocked spark out too!!

P.S The peter fight KD's were all rabbit punches or the accumulative effects of them, and besides peter was a 250lb bull of a man who put toney down too!! The rematch proved wladimir a boxer who has truly perfected his art, when was the last time he was GONE? Years ago....