Byrd, Brock, Povetkin, and Eddie Chambers in tourney to be Wlad's mandatory

[Kev]

Thompson is 35, been around a while and has earned his shot.

I was actually just thinking about making a thread about this. CC. The guy never gets talked about. If what's his name, the big clumsy guy that fought Wlad two times ago can get a shot, why not Thompson. This might not say good things about American heavyweights but he might be the best out there and nobody mentions him.

You're probably right about the other guys. I guess Povetkin is the only real wild card.

I don't think many Heavys wanna mix it up with Thompson cause hes a high risk, low reward fighter.
He's beaten some decent names but hasn't made much noise off the wins.

So I really don't see any one of the top guys fighting Thompson unless he becomes someones mandatory

His win over Krusneqi was a WBO eliminator so I'm guessing he's Ibragimov's mandatory. If so he probably gets a shot at the winner of Ibragimov Chagaev and if so imo he goes from an unknown to holding two belts overnight.

Then Wlad would have to fight him pretty much and a win there could leave Thompson as the universally recognised undispited heavyweight champion of the world.

Stranger things have happened........