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Who Can Handle Vitali in the Historical Pantheon?

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    Originally posted by Dave Rado View Post
    The "overrated Holy" as you call him, when way past his prime, gave Lewis two very tough fights, and although Lewis was robbed in the first fight, many boxing experts scored the second fight to Holy. Prime for prime, most experts would favour the "overrated Holy" to beat Lewis.
    ** Time to get back to the point of the thread davy.

    I don't see any version of unHolyone or Bowe, the guys who first nicked up each others undefeated records, they don't beat Vitali at his best. Even at age 37-38 coming off 4 yrs retirement, he's pitched a shutout against 2 prime slugger/bulls, Peter/Arreola, and one highly experienced, highly avoided southpaw champion, JCGomez.

    His shot selection near perfect and accuracy unparalleled in the division and near best if not best in boxing history. Bowe was too ******, not strong enough, and was carefully matched around any big heavy sluggers until Golota who owned him before retiring him to ignomy. The unHolyone way too inconsistant and running out of gas in 12 rders against Foreman and Bowe, sometimes in midrounds against little guys.

    So, who could beat Vitali best to best. I give Tyson the best chance, I'd put money on it. Followed by Dempsey and Ali, but none of my money goes on them.

    The interesting thing about Vitali is that he will retire with the alltime KO% record for champions as far as I can tell, 92-93%, yet he's not a big one punch slugger. He's a boxer first and foremost, but those rapier stingers he lands round after round have snap backed up by 250lbs of highly developed muscle.

    And to think, some say he's the 2nd best brother.

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      Originally posted by StarshipTrooper View Post
      Originally posted by poet682006 View Post
      To be honest I have him ignored and only glanced at the posts where he's quoted.

      Poet
      - -Poor Poet too dumb to know it!

      Had me on ignore to come and spam my original thread with U silly putty purple slurple...

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