A lot of people are unhappy with the state of the heavyweigth division, while I am mostly unsatisfied with matchmaking. You mentioned Nikolay Valuev, and I agree that he was not worthy of a title, I had Donald beating him and the Ruiz fight was also extremely close. But let's look at his opposition: Monte Barrett, Larry Donald, Jameel McCline, ... good fighters but in my opinion far from elite.
Samuel Peter, Lamon Brewster, maybe Tua even at this stage of his career, would have crushed him.
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