Why Does Wlad Get So Little Respect?

Very simple. Although he is a dominant champion, he is the dominant champion of a poor era. He has the misfortune to have come along at such a time that before him came a string-a broken string albeit-of Holmes, Tyson, Holyfield, Bowe and Lewis and he doesn't measure up to them.

 

Russian and his native Ukrainian are the others.

 

Haters, thats all it is..Believe it or not, he gets more respect in Classic than he does here. They are a little less biased over there.

 

Wladimir Klitschko would get a lot more respect if he would stop playing around and just knockout the bums they put in front of him. Boxing isn't a steeplechase nor is it a huggybear competition. Boxing should be a short, violent confrontation ending in a knockout. If Klitschko was a real fighter that is what he would be doing.

 

No. The truth is that he has unfortunately come along at a time when boxing is at an all time low as far as exposure. The quality of heavyweights in the world will NEVER be low. Especially nowadays when you have so many other fighters from different countries becoming involved. There is a difference between lack of talent, which there is NOT... and lack of STARS, which there is. The reason that there is a lack of stars is because most of the best talent in today's heavyweight boxing scene is not in America. The exposure is simply not there for the common fans to know who most of the top contenders are, and they really don't even get much exposure to the Champion unless they just catch his fights on HBO. ESPN's sports center, and other shows like it don't cover hardly ANY boxing anymore, and none of the fights are being thrown onto prime time television networks like they used to back when boxing was huge.

It's all about exposure guys, there isn't a lack of talent. People like something that you can cling to. People need to see fights from the contenders overseas. People need to see documentaries on all of the fighters and get a look into their real life. Boxing needs to get back onto Network Television, and needs to release their fights and highlights to stations like ESPN so fans can catch them on there. Did you see how much of a difference the show 24/7 made? Even though that was on HBO, people ate that **** up. People LOVE to get to know a fighter before the fight. Can you imagine if they did a 24/7 show for Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye... and aired it prime time on NBC? Then aired the fight on NBC as well? Do you have any idea how much exposure that would get? How many viewers that fight would have? The winner of that fight would be HUGE.

I wish someone would hand me the funds to take this task on board, because I know I could do a much damn better marketing job for these boxers than they are getting right now. You have to get your ass out there and throw this in the public's face. Realistically, very few people actually get onto the internet and follow the boxing news on a daily basis. You have to bring this information directly into their home and throw it in their lap.

 

says who?. Where are you gettin g your info?:deal
What I was saying is Wlad fights top 10 guys EVERY fight. Give him credit for that. I hate when guys rip Wlad for fighting a certain guy when that fighter is top 10..or worse when Wlad gets ripped and its a mandatory. What a joke

 

Average at best,chinny & now gun shy to boot!i have no love for todays current heavyweights,over sized & under talented!I stoped defending them long ago!

 

Because he hasn't beaten anyone nearly as good as Haye.

 

Sit tightatsch:good

 

wlad deserves as much respect as lennox

 

And Wlad will be eating Haye's right.
Then it's good night......:tired

 

No, I don't believe he does. :verysad

 

You aren't very bright.

 

Fair enough, I just think Wlad is the more technically skilled boxer. Vitali has been the greatest heavyweight since Lewis and I didn't mean to take anything away from him. I think Vitali would beat Wlad, but that a fighter with Wlad's skill and a better chin would outpoint Vitali and come out on top. All I meant was if you could combine the two, you'd have an all-time great with a respectable p4p position for a heavyweight. Seperate, you just have two guys who dominate a weak division and perhaps unfairly, get no respect.

 

He gets no respect because he is boring @ss f_ck, he's in a weak division, nobody wants to see that bullsh!t @ss robot jab, his robot brother adds to the hate, and of course he's overrated.