Alexander Povetkin- the best of the best!

[Master]

Alexander Povetkin would be top contender in the 90's. He would have been a titlist. He would have fought on equal footing with Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield and provided serious competition for Lennox Lewis.

Alexander Povetkin would have been the best opponent Mike Tyson ever faced in the 1980's, and would have beaten Larry Holmes soundly imo.

Alexander Povetkin would have been undisputed champion from the 1970's backwards virtually unchallenged.

The same Alexander Povetkin who couldn't stop a cruiserweight?

The same cruiserweight that Steve Cunningham stopped?

Dopey...

Simple...

Aside from your triangle theory being irrelevant in the real world...

It's only when you view Steve Cunningham and MArco Huck as what in previous times WERE REAL HW's, and only when you view Marco Huck and Steve Cunningham's records as what would then have been considered real HW records and only when you view Huck and Cunningham themselves as probably better than anything else in previous eras themselves, does everything magically fall into place and Povetkin is to be considered on his proper merits.

Povetkin will be considered on his proper merits which is what he achieves in his life time not anyone elses. If he does not achieve much now then you can not say he would have been champion in 1990 unless you have a delorean.

[Max Power]

Alexander Povetkin would be top contender in the 90's. He would have been a titlist. He would have fought on equal footing with Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield and provided serious competition for Lennox Lewis.

Alexander Povetkin would have been the best opponent Mike Tyson ever faced in the 1980's, and would have beaten Larry Holmes soundly imo.

Alexander Povetkin would have been undisputed champion from the 1970's backwards virtually unchallenged.

The same Alexander Povetkin who couldn't stop a cruiserweight?

The same cruiserweight that Steve Cunningham stopped?

Dopey...

Simple...

Aside from your triangle theory being irrelevant in the real world...

It's only when you view Steve Cunningham and MArco Huck as what in previous times WERE REAL HW's, and only when you view Marco Huck and Steve Cunningham's records as what would then have been considered real HW records and only when you view Huck and Cunningham themselves as probably better than anything else in previous eras themselves, does everything magically fall into place and Povetkin is to be considered on his proper merits.

Povetkin will be considered on his proper merits which is what he achieves in his life time not anyone elses. If he does not achieve much now then you can not say he would have been champion in 1990 unless you have a delorean.

Agreed.

One of those rare moments that I can in fact agree here.

I will judge Alexander Povetkin on the merits of what he achieves in his own era period and will not claim that he could have done this and that in the 90's.

And on the upside here, your friends also cannot make claims that some of those 90's fighters would have trumped Povetkin in this era unless they also have a DeLorean.

Fair is fair!

[Master]

Alexander Povetkin - the best of the rest says it all mate.