Re: What would happen if Klitschko called out Ali's opponents?
1: You don't read so good. I never said once and in fact insisted many times that I think Holyfield would beat Adamek and I also stated the fact that they are the same size! Same goes for Holmes and I only offered I thought Adamek might be able to outpoint the old version of Foreman Holy fought but the prime one would beat him. BUSTED!
2: You cannot do this to anybody's record because..
(a) Modern HW boxers are not ALLOWED to pad their records against Cruiserweights like Ali and previous champs were allowed to and..
(b) Modern HW boxers are heavily criticised by a more scrutinizing and in your face media should they stage fights against bums and losers like Ali and previous champs did.
The opponents of Lewis and Klitschko's are not only heavier but have such better win/loss records, better KO ratio's to leave no doubt about the lack of quality of the era in question.
Let's look at Ali's top 5 opponents...
1/ George Foreman - Best win, comparable to modern opponent! But George fought like an absolute idiot and is almost as responsible for losing such an easy fight as Ali can be given credit for winning it!
2/ Ron Lyle - decent opponent, good win, but Lyle was coming off a loss. Neither was he particularly skilled or anything special in terms of power or size today. (A little below average).
3/ Joe Frazier - A chinny, featherfisted punch bag half blind dwarf who would not be allowed to box today and were he to cheat the medical could only hope to compete at CW.
4/ Ken Norton - A glass jawed HW with a basically non-existent punch!
5/ Earnie Shaver's - Hardly any wins against good opponents, struggled against bums, a threat only to CW's and bums or both and who's overrated power was immense against CW sized opponents but which against modern sized athletes amounts to a KO ratio in the neighbourhood of Chris Byrd's!
6/ Sonny Liston - A notorious CRuiser cruncher, bum beater and loser luncher that never once beat a single opponent that did not fall into atleast one of those categories. His cherry picking only rivalled by Butterbean and LaMar Clarke and who was so slow and uncoordinated he was lucky he faced such poor quality opponents to be able to connect!
This myth is busted... BUSTED!
Last edited by Max Power; 12-01-2013 at 11:20 AM.
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