Where's the White Wolf?

who cares. Wasted talent

 

Damn! You are bloody right in saying that he is from Belarus.He fought under the banner of the Belarussian flag at the olympics.He is American based,but his heart and soul are belarussian.

 

True a bit, but he did give us the fight with Brewster, and that's one of the best heavyweight fights you'll ever see. Probably more action in that fight than any number of Wlad's wins combined.

Too bad because Liakovich was a good technical fighter for a heavyweight. He showed in that fight that he was not afraid to throw very impressive lead rights to the body of Brewster, controlled the distance for most of the fight, and used the jab to consistently keep Lamon off balance.

When he did get cracked, he showed an iron chin and heart to get up from the knockdown to come back and win.

That fight alone is a career's worth. Too bad we haven't seen more of him at that level, but one never knows.

 

This is the old A vs. B vs. C logic. How can fighter A beat fighter B yet lose to fighter C, who lost to fighter B? I have pondered your question as well because Brewster laboriously landed punches on Sergei only to see his opponent still standing while Briggs was able to hurt Sergei on a number of occasions.

Personally, I feel the Brewster fight took everything out of Lyakhovich. You just can't absorb that type of punishment and walk away unscathed. That fight was so brutal that it basically ended both of their careers on the same night. Brewster lost his belt and suffered the eye injury and Sergei was softened up for Briggs. One of the telltale signs of a shot fighter is a drastic reduction in punch output and, unless Lyakhovich was genuinely intimidated by Shannon, he just was not letting his hands go. Sometimes a fighter can get to another fighter before a fight but Sergei's a seasoned pro with a long amateur career so I'm not sure how much I buy the theory that Briggs won some mental battle. Briggs says he did though and he was the one looking at him during the press conferences. None of us we'll ever know.

 

This very well may be true. Despite clearly winning, he did take some wicked right hands in that fight to do it.

Liakovich did fight a different fight against Briggs, however do remember that for 11 rounds it was the right one. He was not engaging with Briggs like he did against Brewster maybe because he didn't have to. Briggs was so slow and inactive and his only chance was to land a powerful bomb, that Sergei fighting a cautious yet winning fight wasn't a terrible strategy.

It might not have been crowd pleasing but it was effective for 11 1/2 rounds. I don't buy that Briggs got in SL's head. Sergei's mental toughness seemed fine to me and Briggs always says he plays head games. It is boxing and even the best executed strategy can fall apart at any time.

 

dude is finished. like punisher said, GUNSHY. and he can't control his weight.

 

I can't remember what Weldon was telling Sergei but yes, as you say, he was winning the fight going into the 12th and the judges scored it as such. There was something that kept Lyakhovich honest throughout the fight and that was Briggs's short counter left hook. Sergei was weary of it after he got hurt by it early.

 

his fight with brewster was great but he hasn't showed much since. don't think he's really that motivated of a fighter.

 

One of those ****** Ukrainian Paper Champions ought to offer him a title shot, instead of defending against Hasim Rahman, and other nobodies.

 

he was in a title eliminator vs value and he made valuev look good!!!1:!:

 

Toney took care of Rahman in 3, and that idiot Wlad was too chickenhearted to finish the job. Some ****ing champion. :deal

 

To the guy in Jersey, i know who the white wolf is! Both Chagev and he r lazy hard headed *******s who don't listen. Chagev is no white tyson,either!

 

Outside of that great fight w/ Brewster he hasn't done much with his career.

He could have been one of the elite hw's of the past 5-10 years but somehow he managed to blow it.

It might not be too late to still make a run but he has wasted too many years.

 

He was a one-and-done champion. The Brewster fight took a lot out of him and getting knocked out like he did against Briggs certainly didn't help matters. Quite frankly, Lyakhovich's win was the most legit of the Russian Invasion between '05-'06. Brewster was building up steam with wins over Golota and Krasniqi (who was still legit at the time) and he wasn't gonna relinquish his title without a fight. In other words, his belt was going to be the hardest to take.

Wladimir Klitschko and Oleg Maskaev just happened to run up against guys who they had already destroyed years earlier (light-hitting Byrd had no shot, Maskaev had Rock's number) and Valuev's win over Ruiz was spotty. Lyakhovich had to win the belt against a hard-hitting guy who never saw a slugfest he didn't like.

 

god damn your posts are stupid. Do you even know boxing....give white wolf a shot? none even knows were he is.

Klitschko a "paper champion" shows how little you really know