Kownacki or Izu? Who can be the first Polish heavyweight champ in history?

Unfortunately Wierzbicki doesn't possess the type of skills you see in a potential future champion. In other words, he isn't the Polish version of Filip Hrgovic.

 

As much as I’d like to see it happen for either guy, the truth is it’s unlikely that we’ll see a Polish heavyweight champion in our lifetime. We’ll probably have to wait a good few years for any Polish champion in boxing (the nation is waiting on its fifth in history following the reigns of Michalczewski, Adamek, Wlodarczyk, and Glowacki).

You might as well consider Andrew Golota the first Polish heavyweight world champion. He is absolutely adored in his home country and his people know he got robbed against Byrd and/or Ruiz. The irony is that Golota’s career is a perfect metaphor of Poland’s history – a series of ups and downs. But he was the first white heavyweight in the Post WWII Era to begin breaking the black hegemony, just preceding the Klitschkos. The K2 Brothers and Golota are the greatest Eastern European heavyweights with Golota plying his tried in a 90s golden era; it will be a long time before we see such talents from Eastern Europe. Yes, there is Filip Hrgovic, but his story isn’t all yet written.

 

Yeah, but hes still young, give him time to develop and see what happens.

 

Izu is very very good but he has no stamina, honestly if he had a proper gas tank, I think he'd be top 5 HW easily.

 

Lets be honest, Martin and Kownacki are both absolute sh!t...I mean it was a fun fight and all but they both looked like ass blood.

 

Kownacki is a damn strong guy but he needs to get in better shape. Their is no excuse for having all that fat hanging around. If he gets in better shape he can beat anyone. He reminds me of Ray Mercer. I think he would give Joshua all kind of problems. Joshua has a bad stamina problem and Kownacki just keeps coming forward no matter what. But Kownacki just needs to get his ass in shape and stop drinking beer.