I have no problems with the Klitchkos, its just a shame they havnt got more competition at the top of the heavyweight division.
1. For Wladimir: Revindicate himself against the Sniper, and do not look for his brother do it for him as he did ... 2. For Vitali, clearly beat Odlanier Solis ...
The Klitschkos have my respect. And anybody with some sense should respect them too. PhDs and professional boxers who, even if you don't like them, they always show up in excellent shape. I am not a fan, and you dont have to be a fan. If people knew what respect mean, they would not use the word so losely. But here you have a bunch of losers talking bout respect sometimes.
The hate that the Klitschkos get are coming from a small but vocal minority, you see the same names on every Klitschko thread saying the same thing, day in, day out...
They need to take a few more risks. Tyson originally fought in an era with a poor talent pool but made headlines by knocking those guys out spectacularly and within a few rounds. Lets see the Klitchkos show some grit by wiping their opponents out in style.
They;re technique is methodical and systematic... they win fights.. but not always in the most crowd pleasing way. It's not that they don't get KO's. It's that their KO's usually come from an accumulation of applying their technique combined with questionable skill level and/or conditioning of their opponents that brings the criticism. BOXING fans have no beef with them. But casual fight fans don't have the deeper understanding to appreciate performances like that. If or both of them would get early round KO's and destroy their opponents in a more aggresive manner they would be superstars.
LOOOL What a stupid thread. They already respected by many nations. Expect maybe the only one nation starts from latter G, or U
Unless they build a time machine to beat Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Goerge Foreman and Sonny Liston in their primes, than come back to our present time and cure cancer, I see no reason why I can't continue to refer to them has human garbage.
then you must feel the same way about roy jones, bernard hopkins and joe calzaghe. don't be so melodramatic
As far as their opposition goes, you can't really complain. I don't like the choices of certain mandatory fights, such as Chisora, Sosnowski and Briggs, who are completely undeserving of title shots, but when you look at the elite out there, it's not like there's any top class opponents that they aren't fighting. Even the next tier of fighters like Adamek, Dimitrenko etc., are overmatched, so it's not like you can really hate on them for their poor opposition. The only thing I do have an issue with, is the poor offers by K2. There are fights out there that should happen and that the fans want to see, yet they aren't being given a chance because K2 refuse to offer a better deal. the prime example is Tua. Sure, he's old but there was a genuine buzz around him at the time of the Cameron fight and when a bout with Klitschko came up, he was offered $500,000. The same he made against Cameron, a national level fighter. Are we supposed to think that Sosnowski deserves twice as much as Tua? Are we suppoed to think Briggs deserves an extra $250,000 than Tua? Of course not. Those offers are genuine bull****. Like I've said before, in a couple of years, there'll be a long list of fighters who should have fought either Klitschko but it didn't happen because of money. if their fans want to defend that, they can, but theyll be the ones to lose out. In the past few years, especially since Vitali came back, the money offered to opponents has been poor and unfair, so big fights will continue to collapse, there's no question about that. But as far as their opposition goes, they just keep beating who is in front of them and you can't criticize them for that. It's not their fault the division is weak, but it doesn't change the fact that they are legacy enhancing fights out there that should happen and would, but only if the Klitschko's were fairer in their deals.