It wasn’t poison.Wlad just loves making excuses.’Every rose has its Thorn’. It’s also Wlads way of talking dirty.Maybe he will do his own rendition of ‘Talk Dirty to me’.
Exactly. There's another story from 2004 where someone else in the gaming industry said the shift was not surprising, particularly given that Brewster was a SoCal fighter and all those Angelinos flooded in to throw some YOLO money on a local underdog.
That's basically what I heard. Brewster has some Hollywood/LA comnnections, heard many dropped some money last minute, changing the odds.
If Wlad was poisoned it was an odd sort of poisoning. If Wlad had felt too out of sorts before the fight he wouldn't have got into the ring, right? And Wlad was throwing a lot of heavy leather for the first 4 rounds; his energy levels didn't seem to be a problem until the 5th, when Brewster caught him with some big shots. Wlad was always more careful with his gas tank after this fight, which supports the idea that it wasn't an aberration. Context is also key: Wlad was just two fights removed from being dropped four times and blown out by Sanders in 2 and had minimal time with Steward to improve his defence, so he surely felt a lot of pressure and was caught between styles, reducing his confidence and stamina. Team Klitschko had an incentive to claim foul play and muddy the waters because it made the loss look less bad. This doesn't necessarily mean they were lying but they're not impartial either.
strong probability. lots of things happened. so the world beater Brewster....endures and conquers in the first fight and gets creamed in the second. do a lot of digging and you will find several more odd occurrences. Boxing is a very very shady business.
That was Vitali, not Wladimir. Neither Anthony Joshua nor Wladimir Klitschko have ever tested positive, but Tyson Fury has tested positive for steroids.