I heard yesterday, was shocked! Gave Vitali, Rahman and Wlad one of (if not the!) hardest nights of there careers! Never bragged about it (unlike morons like haye who claim to be HW saviours and then back that up with nothing but verbal diatribe!) Vitali to this day reckons sanders was his hardest ever opponent, rahman rates him as the hardest puncher hes ever faced and the loss to sanders made wlad want to become a better fighter!

Avoided? Definitely! Overlooked? In a sense yes!Ibelieve a fight with moorer fell through,and HBO pulled the plug on a tua fight! Shame cos i wudda picked him to KO moorer and a tua fight would have probably been a classic slugfest!

Great 'H2H' fighter (Top 20 of all time!) One of only a handful of SOUTHPAW HW champs ever!

RIP.