Alexander Povetkin retires from boxing

He was never THE CHAMPION but he picked up a WBA belt at some point. Probably means more to him than us fans though.

 

All the best for Sasha.

 

A good but not great boxer who never came close to winning a world title. LOL at the mugs in here thinking that the WBA (regular) is a world title. How many times have we been over this?

He was battered by Wladimir Klitschko who also held, pushed and used the referee to his advantage. He was then pummelled and outclassed by Anthony Joshua.

I have a lot of respect for Povetkin because he was a blatant hot sauce user and didn't give monkeys. The reason all other boxers had so much respect for him is because they all are too.

He knocked out Whyte in devastating fashion after looking like he was going to be the one knocked out. He wasn't at his best in that bout and he wasn't at his best in the second. Whyte got complacent and paid the price but is a much more formidable boxer than Povetkin ever was.

Overrated, despite being my favourite boxer of all time alongside Vitali Klitschko.

 

Better late than never

Hope he enjoys retirement

 

Good. Like others said, he should have done it after the first fight, but I guess he wanted to toss the dice once more.

Anyway, surefire HOFer, and one of the best non-champion HWs of the current age. Very exciting throwback style as well, and managed to keep himself relevant in the scene for over a decade despite often being oversized by his opponents. Yes, the shadow of PEDs will always taint his career, but frankly that's just a reality in today's day and age and not something to be dwelled on.

Hope he saved enough money for his retirement, and didn't take too many bad knocks that will affect him in later years.

 

Very good fighter was Povetkin. Wish you all the best in retirement.

 

DA!!
Cheers

 

It's more common with MT, most of the Thais who have won Olympic medals come from an MT background.

 

Might be the most watchable HW of last 20 years or so. Aside from the fights against Wlad, Firtha and Hughie Fury, I’d be okay with rewatching any one of his fights during a free time. Him having a much better combination punching and countering skills than your average HW contender, in addition to having a great punch variety and being easy to hit almost always delivered good scraps.

Not sure about HOF though, not when guys like Chris Byrd, Jerry Quarry, David Tua, Shavers, Mercer aren’t in either.

All the best for the future, in any case.

 

Great breakdown of the man, Serge. I never really paid too much attention to him and always felt that he allowed Teddy Atlas to emasculate him, but your post shines a completely different light on Sasha. Hopefully he has saved his hard earned money and can enjoy his retirement gracefully.

 

You think differently because you value professional boxing belts very highly, at HW this sadly is thing where these champs fights at the best 2 times per 1 year, sometimes 1 fight per 1 calendar year and pro boxing does have xx orgs and 4 from them are more well known.
Each from them does have their champs and belts and ranking.
While Olympic champ is 1 alone for 4 year cycle and am world champ is 1 alone in this ONE year. Nobody ELSE.
Without clauses, months longs negotiations and things like this.
He does have value for achievements like Foreman. Both of them more values their Olympic Gold medals.
This is what this is here.

In so called " amateurs " you fight every one put in the front of you and everywhere you should to fight with them.

 

yeah, some 3 fights before his fight vs AJ he looked over the hill for sure.
If bear in mind that he had competed at world elite level since late teen years, this already was Father Time here.

I think he should had retired at least after fight vs Price.

 

He has been on the slide for the last couple of years so a pretty good decision.

He should be happy with his career. Olympic medalist, World Champion and plenty of pay days.

Hopefully though history doesn't forget his failed drug tests.