I just watch an Interview of Lennox Lewis about the ray mercer fight. He said the ray mercer fight was so tough because he had to fight in a small ring. I've never seen the Klitschkos fight in a smaller ring, how do you think the Klitschkos would fair if they fought in a smaller ring against a pressure fighter?
It'd be tougher because neither has good footwork going backwards. They're clumsy and awkward. It's maybe worth mentioning that Vitali broke the WBC rules against Gomez in order to make the ring bigger than they legally allow. He just paid a small fine for it because the WBC are in his pocket, probably because they want him to become a politician and return favours.
In almost every fight they are the ones coming forward, taking the middle of the ring with their opponents on the backfoot. I think it would favor them instead of the opposition. Haye sure would have hated it against Wlad.
Yeah, and Lewis' footwork wasn't clumsy and awkward? Of all the elite Heavyweight champs, Lewis had among the clumsiest footwork ever. Great fighter, but wasn't exactly smooth on his feet.
His point is neither have good defense and use the larg:rofler rings to back up and than hug. If either had better abilities to slip, block and parry I'm sure they'd prefer the smaller ring.
Chris Byrd wants a very small ring for the fight Wlad vs. Byrd in 2006 and he get it. The ring was very small. Against Austin the ring was small. No problem for Wlad to fight in small rings. But IMO it is much better for Heavyweights to fight in bigger rings. I want to see boxing with footwork, speed and no "stand boxing."
Wlad has no confidence in his chin and will never opt to fight in a smaller ring with anyone consisted a puncher.
Right, a mayor of Kiev, Ukraine is going to have a lot of pull for a Mexican organization atsch The ring was too small, not too big.....once again Jack, you don't know the facts. Don't you get tired of being owned in every thread by now?