The right style to beat a prime Wladimir Klitschko?

Agree wholeheartedly.

 

Lennox Lewis

 

I can think of a couple of fighters/styles that would give Wlad some trouble.

Wlad style is based on his size advantage. So one of the problem would be if his opponent is as big as he (and also had some speed and skills on top of that). Someone who can't be easily outjabbed from distance and hugged to death inside. Lewis would be obvious example.

Tyson was master at cutting the ring against larger opponents. I doubt Wlad could keep him away all the time.

Also, someone like Sanders would be always a problem for Wlad - big, aggressive southpaw with speed.

 

A short banger could have some success I feel, but he'd have to have the right combination of mental and physical tools to make it work. He'd have to walk that delicate balance between being close enough to land his own punches, but not so close that he's tied up easily inside. Quite tricky.

Sam Peter in the second fight tried to implement some bob and weave, but he was hoplelessly too slow moving in. Wlad had no problems whatsoever shifting backwards and keeping the distance, and pot-shotting Peter to death. Very demoralising for the big Nigerian.

Now perhaps a fighter with Joe Frazier's closing speed and ability to get in really low under a good deal of Wlad's punches could be a different story. He'd have to be prepared to take punches to land punches, and be very mindful of Wlad's ability to tie up inside. He'd have to dish out some dirty stuff, and try and take Wlad out of that comfort zone.
Wlad is not offensive-minded when retreating, and maybe a tenacious guy with fast closing speed could put him more on the defensive than he'd like to be.
I don't think that Wlad is at all interested in getting into a give and take type of fight. It's not in his mentality, and perhaps an opponent that has him constantly backing up, or backing up more than he'd like and not getting into a rythmn to set up his own offense, could have success.

 

But to finish him, you need to land. That's been a problem for the vast majority of his opponents.

 

Some one who fights like this guy.

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It's okay, I don't think you're trolling :good It must be hard to troll with your tongue glued to a window anyway.

 

I'm surprised actually , knowing you are not a big fan of the Mauler, when I saw you had posted again ,I thought here comes some flak . Not sure even now, you don't mean Wlad beats Jack all day.:think

 

Yeah, very much agreed. He's extremely mindful of his own vulnerabilities, and that's a credit to him. A lot of fighters are either incapable of adjustiing or too stubborn and set in their ways to fully learn from their mistakes.

He's a bit of a strange one. To me, and if I read your post correctly, to you too, he is fairly average in many respects, but extremely good at what he needs to be good at.

One has to wonder if he's either a woefully underappreciated fighter or a good but not great fighter that has taken advantage of a really poor era. Maybe somewhere in between those two extremes.

 

I think Lennox could take Wlad in a few rounds.

Its hard to pick a style, simply because so much more than just style comes into it. Size, reach, speed, power, chin and so much more.
But i think Lewis is just perfect for taking Wlad early.

 

Wlad's got better wins but what about H2H monster Vitali?

 

It is hard...it's just something I like to think about, because it's a problem that all of his opponents have had trouble with. I like to try and work out exactly how, from a technical point of view, a fighter deals with his dimensions and movement.

I tend to agree with your take on Lewis. Simply put, Lewis is as big as Wlad and technically very good, and that in itself creates problems Wlad has rarely had to deal with.
But also, the two losses Lewis suffered were due to big right hands, and Wlad has that. Interesting fight.