Fair play to Pulev, he was game!

Yeah, he may have been outmatched but he proved that he's no quitter.

 

Game? I expected lots more.

Povetkin's try, stunted as it was by Klitschko's negativity, was still a lot more impressive.

 

I agree, the one thing of Pulev's showing that convinced me tonight was the way he kept getting up from all the kds and trying to take the fight back to klitschko albeit he was hopelessly outmatched.

 

Or David haye could learn he don't have a chin so why not develop some head movement and not put it in the line of fire

 

Leapai got up from just one less and lasted the exact same amount of time (alright, technically five seconds less than Pulev...but just over two minutes into the 5th all the same), and unlike Pulev actually came forward instead of standing off swishing his glove in the air pointlessly.

So was Leapai just as game? In fairness, if you're saying Pulev was, you have to say Leapai was too.

As for best Klitschko fight in years - well, it may have been more enjoyable than Povetkin but it was more or less on par with Leapai, Pianeta, and Wach. All got dominated. The last fight that wasn't nullified into complete ugliness (as Povetkin was) but still remotely competitive and entertaining was Thompson II.

 

Leapai's weren't?

 

What more was there to expect? Pulev has nothing but a jab and that played exactly in this fight.

 

By your standard of rising from knockdowns when hurt and hopelessly outmatched, then yeah.

He was game, sure, but not especially game as compared with recent Klitschko opponents, and far less than Povetkin.

Povetkin, however, rose the same 4x that Pulev did and never stopped attempting to rip Klitschko's head off, forcing him to clinch fearfully all night. Pulev was the one clinching (and rabbit punching like crazy) the more this wore on.

 

nothing but respect for a guy who tried.

Haye did what he did because he was scared to death thats what would have happened to him

no respect for haye and his 12 million dollar paycheck to run like a girl

 

Haye was 3.5 years ago.

The last seven challengers have taken lumps "gamely" - except they all folded before halfway mark, except for Wach and Povetkin. Of those seven challengers, Pulev didn't take more chances than half of them.