Let's take another approach. We will consider all boxers always in their prime and peak, regardless 18 or 48 y.o and will start to research boxers resumes.
I agree that he fought / approached the fight equally to the first one. But i disagree that he was the same physically. He looked weak and wasn't ready to fight. His body wasn't ready. I think Covid-19 hit him pretty bad and he's 40+ ....no way he was ready to fight a young and powerful guy like Whyte.
Well, I usually take in fights evaluating from point was this boxer in his prime or over the hill regardless is this U.S, Mexican, U.K, european, EE boxer. However a lot of posters does use dual standards regards to this and then I feel a bit being too honest and too much attempting to value reality not only surnames on resumes. Maybe I'm wrong and should go like a lot of posters there?
Your style is your style But you rip in to people thinking they dont like EE fighters if their view doesn't match yours
Well, I do not list fights where EE boxers had beated up well known boxers well over their hill, despite their name recognition value. I had expected the same fair attitude from ppl here. Yeah, my style never was to namecall if I know that fighter was well over the hill.
At least three people I know have have been feeling the effects of Covind for many months after being infected and none of them had to be hospitalised. I thought from the very first time I heard that the fight had been made that it seemed like an exceptionally bad idea to go basically straight from hospital into camp and what I saw yesterday realised just what I feared. This is just such a no brainer. He looked every bit as someone who had no business in the ring, from the look of his body to how he stumbled around from every slight contact, to his lack of timing and head movement. I can't even see what there is to discuss. Whyte got the win but he gets no credit. And he can't moan about that when the fight was made so shortly after Povetkin was released from the hospital. It had been one thing if Povetkin had looked anything close to the already aged version of the last fight, but he didn't. He didn't just look old, he looked unwell and completely gone. Only his gameness was still there.
You'd be saying the same if Whyte knocked out Povetkin in August I don't think Povetkin should be boxing, but because he is 41 and washed, not because he had coronavirus
It was a further 6 months of aging, the shots he took in the 1st fight and the fact that Whyte had a better gameplan and was juiced to the gills.
I thought that the whole CV19 story might - might - have been a clever ruse by Povetkin to get Whyte to mentally slack off training. But the weigh in was revelatory in this respect. Povetkin looked soft, flabby and shrunken. It was obvious that he'd regressed greatly since the first fight and that it was ill health and not just age alone that was to blame.
No during pad work he was working on the lead right, he kept throwing it with no set up and Dillian timed it with ease, he tried very few hooks or uppercuts.
If Povetkin wasn't ready then his trainers knew it,,,if that is true they could have postponed it if they had wanted to. That they didn't means this was Povetkins cash out fight into retirement of which I'd agree adios.
