Who is the worst heavyweight titleholder since 2000?

[Primo Carnera]

are you happy with his holding tactics during that time?

I hated Wlad holding but he was still the best fighter. Wlad did not have to hold but he was so scared about his vulnerable chin that he did it excessively.

I don't think you can say that for sure

would he have beaten Peter in their second fight if he was stopped from holding?

he shouldn't have won the fight, he should have been DQ'd without a doubt

would he have beaten Provetkin?

would he have beaten haye?

haye was one of his best performances but he still held excessively

as soon as he was stopped from holding against any half decent opponent he looked terrible

I don't think we will ever know if wlad was the best boxer during that period, he was just the best at wlad rules

I hear what you're saying on most of that, and like you, I thought the Povetkin fight was a disgraceful fight from start to finish.
But the Haye fight is a little different. Haye was so cautious that Wlad didn't have to hold that much. Haye was looking for a way in all night but didn't want to commit. He played right into Wlad's hands and then blamed his big toe.
Haye's performance against Wlad was similar to Wlad's performance against Fury. Smaller man , less reach, worried about getting tagged by the bigger guy to the extent that they went gun shy.
And I'm not a Haye basher, I quite like the guy. he fucked up big time that night and made himself look a cunt.

I shouldn't have brought up the Haye fight, its a touchy subject

forget I said it

It wasn't just the Provetkin and Peter fights wlad held in, there were lots of them, I just brought those two up because the peter fight was the day he won the title. He should have been DQ'd so wouldn't have won it in the first place (then what would have happened?) and the provetkin fight was probably the worst, he should have been DQ'd several times over

I remember Matthew Barney fighting Carl Froch and Henry Akinwande fighting lennox lewis, Barney and Akinwande were DQ'd in those fights for holding, well done ref, yet they weren't a patch on many of wlad klits fights

Yeah , agree with all of that. I remember Akinwande. he basically got DQ'd for not wanting to fight. I always thought that that must be the most embarrassing way for any Boxer to lose a fight, to go in the ring and not want to fight.