I know it's gonna sound like a broken record, but I still can't help feeling that any one of Ali, Frazier, Tyson would have either of them for breakfast.
Have a ****! Been up since 7.30am taking the last two conifers (there were seven) out the new garden I moved house on Friday
I think Lennox would take out Klitschko. Tyson would have knocked his head clean off. Ali would have cut it to pieces first.
If the ref didn't stupidly interfere in Rd 5 before WK hit the floor then AJ could and probably should have ended the fight right there and then. There'd be no talk of a wobble and recovery, he'd be fresh off the back of a devastating KO where Wlad never looked like competing. Instead we're talking about a guy who specialises in early finishes, proving that he has the steam to go into later rounds and win fights. As for past fighters putting AJ away, it's all completely irrelevant. I've not seen a single person claiming AJ is the GOAT.
A more experienced AJ would have finished WK in the 5th. All if's and but's. The bottom line is AJ smashed a rip roaring uppercut on him and it was game over.
Not sure with Vitali. As for Wlad, Tyson would have punched him through the ropes - that said, he handled David Hayes speed and power with the ultimate ease. Against Vitali, Tyson would not have frightened him and he wouldn't have been able to bully him. Vitali would have been so much bigger and stronger than Tyson so it would have been interesting to see what would happen if Tyson did connect on his chin, as we all know that VK had a chin made of granite - that uppercut that Lewis landed didn't have no affect on him. Also, would Tyson have been able to take a punch of Dr Iron fist? What we can both agree on, is that it would be explosive, one way or the other. I'd have loved to have seen Ali against WK (2007-2014 version). A heavyweight offensive master v the greatest heavyweight defensive master. I don't think it would be as easy for Ali as some make out.
And a younger Klitschko would have finished him off in the 6th. As for the uppercut, that must go down as one of the most savage punches in boxing history. For all of the questions about WK chin over the years, I still cannot believe that that punch alone, didn't knock him clean out. I was glad that AJ got dropped badly too as he probably needed to know that he can take such a knock down and get back up - he won't get hit like that by any other current active heavyweight. Heavyweight boxing has been crying out for a fight like that for the best part of 13 years, and I for one would love to see a rematch and then the winner go on to destroy Wilder and Parker and take the undisputed title.
For me, all of this past fighters stuff is nonsense today anyway (although it is great to discuss such scenarios) because I'd back AJ to knock them all out if he caught them clean (Vitali Klitschko possibly the exception - don't think he was ever dropped?) - AJ, WK, VK etc of today are far more bigger, stronger and more powerful than the fighters of the past. At their peak, of which AJ is still, hopefully, 3-5 years off atm, with their punching power, they knock most, if not every heavyweight in history clean out if caught flush on the chin.
I'm old enough to remember them all. Tyson would have destroyed Klitschko. He was not only one of the hardest punchers there's ever been, he was quick too. Especially in his prime. Alí, was the greatest, as he claimed. Both Joshua and Klitschko would have chased shadows while Ali cut them to bits.
Had an enjoyable evening watching the 'Jester From Leicester' Mark Selby retain his world snooker title ...
