What Does Wladamir Klitschko Have To Do To Become A ATG?

[Gettin Jiggy]

Wlad has done all any champion can ever do, and that’s beat the best of his era. There are no significant heavies out there that he’s ducked, and for the last five years he’s decisively beaten whoever has been put in front of him A few more years at this level and I think it’ll be hard to deny Wlad his place at the top table.

He’s hardly the first champion to be boring or to fight in an era lacking top quality opposition. How many prime great light-heavies did Bob Foster beat, for instance? Yet no one disputes Foster’s greatness.

what a great post! k given!

[GJC]

He'll make it through longevity eventually, not his fault that he hasn't had much opposition but credit to him for dealing with what is in front of him.
I'll be pleased to cheer him into the HOF as it will mean he has retired and I won't have to watch another fight like his last one.

[NakiFan]

If you ask me it's the British fans on this site who do not give Wlad credit and try to disparage his career.

I am American and Wlad is my favorite fighter. Of the posters I know well who are American the majority are also big Wlad fans.

I wondered when I would come across what is categoricaly the WORST post i have EVER seen and here it is lol.

All americans do on this site is go around making posts like Tyson vs Wlad or X american vs Y European, with the intent of tearing the european down and belittling him compared to the american fighters.

[Сливк.]

I wondered when I would come across what is categoricaly the WORST post i have EVER seen and here it is lol.

All americans do on this site is go around making posts like Tyson vs Wlad or X american vs Y European, with the intent of tearing the european down and belittling him compared to the american fighters.

word, good post.

[Junito-Rulez]

Wladimir did everything he could to earn this spot. If he keeps doing it, there is no reason he shouldn't be an ATG. If he can KO named fighters in his next bouts( Haye, Chambers) that could help.
Wlad is so far already an ATG, Vitali is the better fighter but is not an ATG.

[NakiFan]

YOu are forgetting though, if wlad gets ko'd a couple more times his legacy will be tarnished, he has to avoid that

[GJC]

YOu are forgetting though, if wlad gets ko'd a couple more times his legacy will be tarnished, he has to avoid that

Very good point.
Its the problem with trying to place a fighters historical legacy before the story is told.
Don Curry's name came up tonight in another forum, I think he is struggling to get in most peoples top 20 atg welters.
If however you asked the question the day before he faced Honeyghan it would be a quite different answer.

[Obama]

Getting KTFO has proven not so bad when it's ATGs that knock you out. Problem with Wlad is, he gets KOed by B level and below fighters.

[Jim Jeffries]

Getting KTFO has proven not so bad when it's ATGs that knock you out. Problem with Wlad is, he gets KOed by B level and below fighters.

Who was below B level? Because you surely can't count Puritty.

[cashdon]

Sadly, I think its safe to say with the sad state of the heavyweight division, he would never be considered an all time great. Now with his size and power I believe he could gave been a factor in any era (past or the future). But with his boring style and no opponents to even push him to prove his greatness he is better off trying to find a time machine if he wants to be an ATG