Was Kotelnik a Euro level fighter or a World Class fighter.

[The_Demon]

he must be a euro bum,a british fighter just beat him remember

[Roger Mellie]

Exactly!!


Kotelnik is a World Class contender, he is not a World Class Champion.

Fair enough, but not everybody fights King Kong for their first world title. Lets not forget that Tim Bradley beat Witter for his. Khan is still only 22 and if he is brought along correctly he can have an amazing career, Roach seems to have done a very good job so far, and after only 10 months!

[sunny31]

This is purely objective on peoples opinion on what a world class fighter is, you can't move the goal posts and say he is a world class contender not a world class champion, that is not what the thread asks.

In my opinion he is clearly a world class fighter, if he was only european level, trust me he wouldn't have competed with witter, beat maidana. Witter is not exceptional but he is a solid world class operator, I thought like many kotelnik beat him. The khan match up was a bad style for him. Kotelnik would pose serious stylistic problems for many of the other top fighters in the division, but he will alway struggle against speed + good work rate, and is not on the level of bradley or holt, but I think he could def pick up wins over urango, torres, malignaggi who I consider world class fighters.

Kotlelnik has world class punch accuracy, defense, and chin. His speed is pretty decent but power is probably sub-par at world level. All in all, I would say he is def world class, not a particularly strong world class fighter, he isn't gonna unify belts and is limited at world level, but definitely belongs, and is clearly capable of beating other world class fighters as he has already proved in my eyes, surely if he can beat other world class fighters, he is world class himself.

[STEELHEAD]

Was Kotelnik Euro level fighter or a World Class fighter? I dont care if he was a TITLE HOLDER, he was not a World Class fighter and if there were only one belt out there Kotelnik would not get a sniff of it because he is not World Class, if there were an established Champ and one belt he would be nothing more than a tough contender.


Sometimes throughout Boxing you see World Champions that you know are good fighters but they are not World Class and Kotelnik is a case in point.

Call me hater but i will take notice of Khan's achievements when he shows what he can do against World Class opposition, not Euro title holders.


Poll to come.

The best thing to come of this is that now MAYBE he will fight a World Class fighter to let us know if he can cut it at the top, having said that with Warren as his promoter he might be fighting a blown up SFW.


A post by Machine...............Khan did say that he felt Kotelnik was not only the worst world champion in the division or any division actually, he thought Kotelnik was the worst world champion in boxing history.

on the world scene kotelnik wasn't much but considered him a euro level worldclass fighter.

[Chrismart]

Hes a good fighter no doubt. Not world class, but better than Euro class. Belongs somewhere near the middle.