Wlad is a...

Wlad is a grown man who fights like a frightend child.
I'd like to sign up to the Wlad hater squad as I'm sick of this jab close gap and hug bull****.

 

Uhmmm, why don't you uhmmmm, give us a recap of some of those?

 

Since the the Peter fight he brutally beat and knocked out Byrd for the Title. Brutally knocked out the undefeated Calvin Brock. Brutally knocked out Ray Austin with a Quad Hook combo! (In the second round, while never having to throw his right hand). Fought his revenge match against Brewster, and brutally beat him into submission. Dominated the Undefeated WBO Champion Ibragimov, although Iggy wasn't putting up enough offense of his own to allow Wlad the opportunity to knock him out. The blame lies on Iggy there... Wlad was easily winning the fight, and it was Iggy's job to give the fans some action, as Wlad would have literally had to lay on top of Sultan in order to make the fight exciting. Then... he goes on to take Thompson apart, and knock him out.... in the 11th round of a pretty high pressure fight where he took a good bit of punches too, from a tall, unorthodox southpaw.

Seems pretty impressive to me. Maybe your standards are unreasonable?

 

u have a good point. he gets too reliant on his jab-right cross but he adjusted and began to throw to the body and use the uppercut a few times. he also began to throw the lead right which turned the fight imo. he showed a lot of progress in this area against Peter and Brewster so he has the capabilities. I think it has more to do with Sultan and Thompson being very awkard leftys throwing wlad off his game. Additionally, I thought the game plans against both were pretty bad. He looks better and more comfortable against conventional fighters although he is 4-1 against top southpaws.

as far as Thompson's speed, it's hard to tell. most of his work seemed to come in the clinch while wlad held him. he would hammer wlad to the body which was pretty ineffective. He did land a few good left crosses. i'll have to look at the tape but nothing jumped out at me.

I feel Peter is still the tougest fight. Power, chin, heart, aggression. Then Valuev due to his chin, stamina and size. After that, I just do not see anything competitive. Ruslan has skills but his health status makes me think he is done. An ACL injury is going to hamper his lateral movement. Not to mention his bacterial/viral conditions.

I'll wait on Haye to actually fight some decent comp before considering him.

 

Mayweather?

 

Don't think Wlad is near his peak yet, and he looks the biggest 241lbs guy I've ever seen. I suspect he'll peak at 35 like Lennox Lewis.

 

yeah i dont want to really talk about Haye-Wlad. But im leaning towards the thinking Haye must land something very early otherwise it becomes a boxing match and he will struggle.

Povetkin is in over-his-head against wlad. Even some of his advisors/trainers are of this mind but his promoter wants it really badly.

Wlad really uses his size well and Thompson did the same negating the jab