Miscellaneous Heavyweight thoughts

good post, I especially agree about #2. When was the last time the two olympic gold medal winners fougth for the HW title? 74 in Zaire.

 

i agree with #3 tony thompson is criminal underrated on esb, the same thing was for ibragimov, he was so underrated. but vitali is much better than povetkin, and povetkin is a great fighter, but wlad will knock him out, wlad is just too big and too fast and too strong

 

anyone the brothers fight are complete cans...

 

1. Wlad is the more skilled brother, but falls apart when the going gets tough. Vitali is less skilled, but the tougher brother. Wlads the better boxer, Vitali's the better fighter.

2. Povetkin is overrated, keeps delaying inevitable with Wlad. Never fought a big puncher in his career. His best wins over all light punchers, Bryd, Donald, Chambers.

3. Thompson took the Tye Fields route, fighting C and D class heavyweights for 7 years of his career to stay undefeated. His best win is over Luan Krasniqi, and a faded one at that.

4. Chambers is skilled and extremely fast in the hands, he was beating Povetkin to the punch early in the match, his stamina lost him that fight, not his skill set which is superior to Povetkins IMO.

5. Arreola sucks, but so does 80% of the top 20 heavyweights, at least he got power.

6. Then his career should be very up and down then, and will never quite get to the top just like Guinn.

7. It should be an interesting fight, I doubt Solis will knock him out quick like every other contender he fights.

 

h2h Vitaly beat Wlad in 90% of the time which does not make him pedestrian.
So bad Vitaly is so injury prone which significantly reduces his credibility

 

Much beter thoughts/

 

It will be interesting to see where Wladimir is put in boxing history. I think he will be quickly forgotten. But maybe in 30 years time his name will pop up.

 

True, I personally like Vitali better, he's tough and doesn't fold after taking a decent punch or when his oppenent is on the attack.

 

Surely most people in boxing rate Vitali more than Wlad?

 

Although I really like Vitali and am glad to see him fighting again, he really has done a disservice to Wlad because he is there lingering around as the #2 heavy whom Wlad will never fight.


So when the thread starter mentions "the klitschkos" always being lumped together as if they were the same person, it takes away from Wlad (who has more left in a career than older vitali).

 

Styles make fights. Vitali would beat Wlad by KO but Wlad is the better boxer. Vatili can be out boxed and loose on points. No one is going to outpoint Wlad without the size of his brother.

Simply put every for every fighter there is another fighter with their number. Vitali has Wlads number.