how to conquer wladimir's foul techniques?

Hit him in the bollocks.

I would make a big deal of it before the fight by telling them and the ref if he holds me and the ref does not do anything that I will punch him in the sack constantly. Might make them think twice about allowing them to do it. Pretty ****in discusting.

 

Make him think twice about grabbing and leaning on you, IE. elbowing him, hitting him low, throwing him off ya (not as easy), headbutting him.

I know if I was a top level heavyweight, I wouldn't take his leaning tactics, I'd absolutely fight him dirty, I'd rather be DQ'd knocking him spark out with elbows, than to be raped by a giant octopus grabbing and leaning on me for twelve rounds.

 

It's too bad Povetkin is such a clean fighter. If that was a guy like tyson or holyfield wlad wouldn't have made the final bell

 

If he pushed my head down I'd send a nice hook to the balls.

 

Don't square up when coming in close. Move in side on, drive the shoulder into Wlad's chest and use the shoulder as a barrier to create space. Harder to reach around an opponent standing side on and harder to push down on their head in this stance. Then use the elbow or forearm to lever Wlad off him to create room to punch inside and to break the clinch.

Look at Mayweather vs Hatton. Mayweather does this to prevent Hatton clinching.

 

just watch holyfield against bowe and lewis rematch

 

I would punch his body, hips, thighs, armpits and inside of his biceps. Also use my head to frustrate him.

 

Double edge sword.

If Povetkin doesn't initiate most of the clinches by dive bombing Wlad's chest, he probably gets viciously knocked out on the outside.

But he absolutely should have been throwing punches with his free hand. But I am pretty sure he was getting a blow from all the damage he was taking.

Some of you guys are acting like all Wlad was doing was holding. He was beating the **** out of Povetkin.

 

Wlad did plenty of clinching but you are right Povetkin did no infighting. He landed a few rights in clinches that looked solid but never followed through

His head was down because he ate short jabs and hooks coming in

Jones had a quote saying the leaning is what hurt AP the most but how bout the punches that ****ed up his face

 

Honestly what a lot of people have been saying...Just punch him in the balls a couple of times.

 

Basically, yes.

 

With Wlad's physical advantages, I think he'd be able to initiate clinches even if his opponent employed those tactics unless he was fighting another huge guy.

If the ref doesn't stop him, you'd have to foul him every time and hope that dissuades him and also hope the ref doesn't DQ you.

 

What there too much holding last night? Of course.

We can argue who was at fault but the key point people are missing is Povetkin looked like he was hit by a truck.

Whether you like Wlad or not, he delivered massive amount of damage. This wasn't a B-Hop or Floyd fight where guys look pretty clean after. Povetkin looked half dead. And he hit the canvas and was an iron chin fighter.

 

To me that makes all the holding that much more aggravating. Wlad held all the physical advantages. To me there was no need for the hug n hold. Now, I do realize that Povetkin was bulling in. And there were a few moments where Wlad actually tried to time him with the uppercut.......wish he had used that more, and the clinch far less.