Goodness me, we've heard it all now. Fatigue makes cowards of men, fellas. The problem for that version of Wladimir was he wasn't comfortable in the ring, didn't know how to pace himself and wasted a lot of energy through nerves.
Ya wasn't it the vasaline covering his body?Or maybe the green man in front row.? Is the FBI still investigating?
Well, how many panic attacks have you seen while a guy is fighting? Not to mention, all panic attacks don't look the same anyway. But the symptoms where there. Discoloration of the lips, loss of energy, high blood sugar levels.
I dont think nerves had anything to do with it. ......and Emmanuel Steward is partly to blame that night imo. It was Steward who had instructed Wlad to get Brewster out of there early. Wlad was beating the crap out of Brewster, not many heavyweights would have taken that type of pounding, but Brewster did........Wlad got hit with a heavy shot and found himself on empty. I believe Wlad was having nauseating feelings from the knowing that he was feeling Brewsters heavy hands and he had just expended the equivalent of running a two hundred yard sprint full out. Was Wlad sick? Sure he was, but it was the predicament he found himself in that made him sick, there was'nt any foul play involved here, and that was plain to see.
Wlad will tell you to this day that he had to learn to become a fighter...in other words he needed to learn how to control his nerves/anxiety and learn to make entering the ring feel like second nature. Manny Steward has talk on numerous occasions, on how he had to work with Wladimir to become comfortable and feel at ease in the square circle, with a lot of repetitive actions. I believe nerves and anxiety had a lot to do with Wladimir's early problems...he was a deer in headlights and panicked when he got fatigued.