Is the general opinion of wlad deserved?

[Hornfinger]

OK well let's leave the Chagaev fight alone then...I mean Wlad COULD have waited for the WBA title holder's injury to heal and wait for him to come back around and fight, but Wlad (as his 55-3 record suggests) likes to stay active and he risked his titles to fight a guy he hadn't trained to fight....but I digress.

Wlad hasn't taken a risk with his titles his whole reign. Chagaev a risk that's hysterically funny.

[El Kabong]

Wlad hasn't taken a risk with his titles his whole reign. Chagaev a risk that's hysterically funny.

Well either you're saying Wlad is just that good or that he's ducking someone.....well we all know he's not ducking anyone .

Wlad has offered to fight anyone and the only top rated people he hasn't fought have just declined to fight him (namely Valuev, Povetkin, and the WBA title holder though I hope that ends July 2nd). Who else does Wlad need to fight to prove he's great?

[Hornfinger]

Wlad hasn't taken a risk with his titles his whole reign. Chagaev a risk that's hysterically funny.

Well either you're saying Wlad is just that good or that he's ducking someone.....well we all know he's not ducking anyone .

Wlad has offered to fight anyone and the only top rated people he hasn't fought have just declined to fight him (namely Valuev, Povetkin, and the WBA title holder though I hope that ends July 2nd). Who else does Wlad need to fight to prove he's great?

No I'm saying there has been no one in the division that you could consider a 'risk' at any strech of the imagination.

There is no one to duck.

Wlad's problem is that if he easily dusts haye off there is NO ONE in the division to give him that defining fight. Vitali has a similar problem although he got to fight Lewis in an epic and the fight probably did define him. Wlad hasn't and probably never will have that. It's just unlucky for him.