How good is Wlads win over Brewster

Spot on.

 

Brewster's style doesn't usually bode too well over the long term............

 

The Wlad of the rematch would have easily beaten any version of Brewster, barring a lucky punch. He was actually beating Brew much worse in the first match, before gassing out.

Brewster was alway a boxer who was limited in terms of skill, but had a hard punch and a lot of heart, making him dangerous. If he didn´t manage to bomb his opponents out, he was usually outboxed.

He was seriously lucky that Wlad gassed out in their first. He managed to blitz Golota and catch him cold, which was impressive. Karsniqi was outboxing him handily before the KO. Lyakhovich, who IMO is nothing special, beat Brew in a even match. Most people felt Kali Meehan, who is hardly a top boxer, should have won the match against Brewster. Brewster also had losses against Clifford Etienne and Charles Shufford, who were pretty much journeymen.

Now Wlad is far superior to Lykahovich, Meehan, Karsniqi, Etienne or Shufford (who Wlad KOed in 6 if I remember correctly)

So while I do believe Brew was somewhat damaged from his wars in the second figth, I just don´t think it made any real difference.

 

Brewster was faded. He was like Fraiser, nice peak but extremely short. His style had deteriorated his body by the time he got into the fight with Wlad the second time. Not to mention he tried to change his style to a boxing style, instead of the style that got him to the top.

 

WTF? Golota?

You shouldn't even be allowed to grade fighters with a post that crazy. God almighty. The lunacy is palpable. Brewster knocked Golota around the ring like a pinata at a Mexican fiesta.

 

The win was good since he revenged the loss from the first fight.

As said before, Brewster probably took a worse beating in the first fight, but managed to turn it around.

Nothing but respect for Brewster who seem to be a really good guy, but he never was a good "boxer", so with that said I think Wlad proved himself to be the better one after all.

The win will not be one of those fights you highlight when looking back at wlads career, though !

 

Brewster fought Wlad the second time in July of 07, that means he was 15 months inactive from the time he fought Liakhovich, in one of the best Heavyweight wars seen in years. Brewster's toughness, heart, and will to win has been the ingredients for success for many years. His low skill level as well as poor defense, gave anyone with decent skills a chance to beat him in the ring, while he lost to pretty medicore fighters in Shufford and Eitenne, he also found himself in close matches against lesser opposition in Maheen, Krasniqi, where a late round rally and knockout bailed him out in the end. Against Liakhovich he met his match, and lost to a guy that fought his type of fight, which is toe to toe.

I feel Wlads win was a good one for Wlad, but proved very little to the public. Brewster was clearly not the same fighter that night, and it showed. If you watch the first, he did land telling blows against Wlad, even before the 5th round implosion Wlad suffered. Brewster cared more about his family and his own well being, something he never thought about before the eye injury, Brewster's mental toughness and heart just wasnt there that night, so Lamon just took the money to be target practice for Wlad, and has been MIA since.

 

Definately a good win for Wlad, just not a great win in the larger scheme of things.

Wlad needed that win for his own psyche, but Brewster never really was in his class other than being able to chin-check Wlad if he got careless.

 

I think wlad took punishment in Peter fights aswell!

 

I love the argument "Brewster had been out of the ring the same amount of time before the first Wlad fight" So what? All that says is that he shouldn't really have been fighting Wlad in the fist place. The fact that he then managed to smash Wlad up says more about Wlad than Brewster.

 

The first Wlad/Brewster fight was an aberration. Wlad for unknown reasons (medical, stamina?, drugs?) simply imploded and collapsed. Brewster barely landed anything significant before Wlad was ready to fall over. Before the collapse, Wlad was pulverizing Brewster. Brewster IMO showed only a top notch chin in that fight. I know others disagree, but I watched it and Brewster showed very little before Wlad started stumbling all over the place. Brewster had been in some battles by Wlad 2, but: a) he should've never been in a battle with Meehan b/c that guy ain't very good; and b) he didn't do worse that what would've happened if Wlad hadn't fell over the first time.

 

He avenged a loss and that's all there is to it. Yes, Brewster had some wars after that first fight but he also went through some vicious wars before that. It's not like his ability to handle Wladimir's power decided the rematch, it was Wladimir serious improving and not giving Brewster a chance to land anything so it was pointless to continue and take punches without landing anything.

 

There's a reason behind that, Brewster actually wanted to give Wladimir a rematch and mentioned it in the post-fight press conference. All the excuses Wladimir came up with to discredit Brewster's hard earned victory is what forced him to decline a rematch and simply asked Wladimir to earn his shot.