Wlad v The "Tall Pine " 20rds

Wlad wins. Willard just was not a good boxer, nor did he have good defene.

 

I'd take Wlad, but Willard is so much better than given credit for.

 

wlad, a slow ko victory

 

The distance complicates things a bit.

20 rounds will suit Willard just fine.

Will Wlad try to pace himself for 20 rounds or put all his eggs in one basket and try for a knockout in a shorter period?

Either way he has a world of problems on his hands.

 

i cant see wlad doing anything out of character he would be mindful of the 20 round distance and fight as such .

 

The difference between 12 rounds and 20 is huge. I agree that he would probably try to pace himself but it would not be easy.

 

Jack Dempsey was the world's highest paid athlete in 1925, a year in which he did not compete in an official match.

Toledo was very far from a sellout, and that was the first major sporting event after WW I. It does in fact seem to be the case that exhibitions, rodeos, and acting were more lucrative than defending a title from before WW I until Carpentier challenged Dempsey for the first million dollar gate.

 

i have already posted that i think wlad would win by late ko between the 17th and 20th rounds and will admit i have little knowledge of willard .i think that willards only real chance would be to set a quick pace and pressure him making wlad fight a quicker paced fight than he would want to in the hope that the extra distance would work against wlad

 

I think a modern ref, with any humanity or compassion, stops this before the 10th. There would be no 20th round, or 12th even...

 

A modern reff with any humanity or compasion would have worked in a different business in those days.

 

Yeah, that's it.

 

I am trying to bend my mind around this statement but it only makes me hurt.

 

Neither a Damascus experience, an epiphany nor an apostasy.

Wlad beats his face into an tossed blood & pulp salad with bone croutons.