Great post. In his prime, he was the typical Universum golden boy - overpaid by pulic service television (ZDF) regardless of opposition. I think it is more a question of wrong weight class, wrong tactics and inability to adapt than being shot. Even in his prime, he fought stupid fights and he (and his corner) simply couldn't adjust (resuling in tough fights against medicore opposition: Gevor, Griffin). All in all, he fought numerous top ten/five opponents but not the elite (Taylor, Pavlik, Abraham, Golovkin).
He looked like a zombie against Soliman and came back strong to dominate Stiglitz in a weight class he does not belong to.
Thanks. Always been a pet-peeve of mine when people intentionally misspell a boxer's name when they obviously know full well how it ought to be, as though it were some kind of cleverly subversive way to disrespect them. Like the clowns who constantly bashed "Mijarez" and crooned for years about his loss to Darchinyan, as though it weren't sensible to have rated him on p4p lists before that (which I stand by until this very day - Vic was just a terrible stylistic brick wall for him to run into)
I voted yes in the poll but I'm having second thoughts about writing him off, especially if he gets a shot v the Abraham v Stieglitz winner...:think
Yep! I think so ,too! He had struggled with unknown journeymen before he fought De la Hoya,got close point decisions(I had Gevor ahead on points in their encounter) and beat a shot version of Castillejo(who got beaten by Carrara in a trench war which took a lot out of him) but has got one shot after another at a world title.Amazing! Yep! He has done alright .
