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I actually preferred the Wlad that was around before he lost to Sanders....He threw his punches with perfect style...he was a freaking text book....
He still throws his punches with good technical skill, but that style that Sdunek trained him in was exactly the way Boytsov fights today, it's an action packed style, lots of power punches but you leave yourself open for counters. The problem with the style is that it didn't get Wladimir to use his physical advantages when appropriate.

If Wlad still had his same old style I think there are a number of fights that would have either ended quicker (Rahman, Chagaev, Ibragimov) or Wlad would have lost (Thompson [he would have tired out by the 12th] and maybe Sam Peter...although if Wlad poured on the punches he may have stopped Sam)

I always wondered how Bruno would have done vs some different fighters of his era: Bowe, Holyfield, Moorer, Mercer, Morrison, and Ruddock. Doubt Frank wins many of those but he would have made them interesting
I think your last sentence brings us to the crux of the matter. Brunos people would never dream of putting him in with a 'live' fighter unless it was a title fight, in which case its unavoidable. I aint shitting on bruno or his fans but he was an extremely limited fighter who was VERY well managed