I made a mistake when I voted and checked the 16-25% button without thinking. Actually I think Rahman has less than a 10% chance of winning. His chance is basically the "when two big men get into the ring anything can happen" type. I think Wlad dominates.
Kind of a trap fight for Wlad, who seemed to suffer from excessive patience in recent fights with Ibragimov and Thompson. If he takes a methodical approach against Rahman, and lets him hang around, he gives Rahman more opportunity to land something big and turn the fight in his favor. I'm still picking Wlad, but given the intangible of this being Rahman's very last chance, I think I might make this a 70/30 fight.
I went for 16-25, with '16' being my exact guess. Midway stoppage for Wlad, who'll likely win every round (except maybe a tentative first).
Spot on. Boring fight but Wlad's jab is awesome and i'm surprised Rahman didn't swell/cut more. I'm still pissed off that Povetkin pulled out. :fire
Rhaman seemed to be in reasonable shape. He's a big man who carried 250 well. If Rhaman had stepped on the scale in his under ware, I think he is under 250. Wlad jab was back to top form, and how hook was pretty good in this fight as well. This is Wlad's 10th win in a row. I don't see him losing any time soon.
You might be tempting fate there. I expect his next few fights to be against tougher competition than his last few. The names Chagev, Valuev, Haye, Povetkin all spring to mind.
Povetkin, Valuev and Haye are all fights I am looking forward to, I hope he tackles them all back to back whilst Chagaev gets well.
Rahman looked like **** to me. But I agree with you about Wlad's jab. It's a beauty. And he gets the right across behind it RIGHT on target when he's ready. I think Wlad could retire undefeated. You certainly have to take the fight away from him to beat him, take him out of his comfort zone. The only fighter that could do that is Haye, and he's getting stopped, at a guess.
Rahman was ****. Just as we knew he was BEFORE his name came up after Povetkin pulled out. Before that he was just a washed-up has-been with zero heart and ambition left who was being sized up by David Haye as someone easy to beat up in his heavyweight campaign debut. It's not wladimir's fault that Povetkin got injured but there's no need for his supporters and that silly cheerleader Manny steward to try making us believe Rahman was any sort of decent challenge. I'd even rely on Holyfield to put up a better fight than I expected (and got!) from Hasbeen Rahman.
but i know what you mean, Haye is 50-50 against him, although big bro's taking that 1 instead by the looks of it
Yup...happy with that one. Wish it could've been the highlight-reel knockout I'd been hoping for though.
Did this fight really require a thread in this forum? The whole point of posting threads (regarding current matchups) is that they have some form of historical significance, which this fight clearly did not have.