Wlad forgot the fundamentals of boxing after years of grabbing and clinching

There were two things I've never seen before with Wlad:

1. He had Fury right in front of him, Fury was off balance, Wlad starts to execute his straight right. Then breaks off the punch in the middle of the motion. WTF? Sky commentators were wondering WTF that was lol
2. After one clinch in the mid rounds, he got turned around. He thought the ref will break it up, but he didn't. Wlad turns around and gets tagged by Fury like a bloody amateur How on earth can that happen to a guy with 64 fights?

So yea, Wlad looked like an inexperienced beginner at times. Whatever mind games Fury was playing they clearly confused him.

 

Fury stayed on the outside making it impossible for wlad to punch and grab. What surprised me was a guy with a phd couldn't figure out that furys arms are longer than his!LOL

 

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He must've gotten it online lol.

 

Ppl tend to forget stuff when they keep getting hit in the face. The irony was that there wasn't actually that much hitting going on strangely enough.

 

Exactly.

 

I noticed that too, he started to punch and then pulled it back...reminded me of a baseball player stopping his swing....I don't know what that was about, but it was unusual, for sure.

This is a great fight to watch Wlad throw the way he needed to on Saturday.

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Nope. The only thing that he forgot to do was to punch.....

 

Wlad was basically exposed as what he has always been, a limited fighter, a one or two trick pony.
Don't get me wrong he's been a good champion, but as soon he was faced with a challenger of his size with a bit of movement and a jab, he had no answer.

 

This.

If Wlad wants to beat Fury he needs to dig out the videos of when he was in his twenties. :bbb

 

Exactly, you can't forget what you've never known.
He was limited from the start (especially mentally), but the weak era he was in let him get away with his limited style.
(aswell as the home advantages he enjoyed which let him use his excessive holding-leaning tactics illegally for too long).

He was exposed and shut down by a very limited Tyson Fury, which makes me wonder what would've happened had he met a really talented size-wise and skillwise HW.

To me it is astonishing that a reigning champion cannot fight on the inside, cannot make changes on the fly and cannot press action and gamble when urgency is needed.
The excuses here are too funny. He "forgot" how to fight inside and press action after some years??? Did he forget how to swim or ride a bicycle aswell?

 

Wlad had the yips