Alexander Povetkin is he over rated?

His style cannot work against Wlad? A swarmer with technical skill and all of the abilities that Povetkin has (and a great chin, but I can't state that as a fact for arguments at this point) is THE style to beat him. God damn, it's unbelievable what a few consecutive wins against pretty good competition will do to a fighter's reputation. Wlad is indestructible to some people on here.

 

well considering i was talking about byrd not povetkin. but nice one

 

Byrd almost lost to McCline and probably should have lost to Golota. The only real impresive win for him came against Tua and he's a guy who's tailor made for him to toy around with. Byrd has trouble with any high-output swarmers and when you add everything else that Povetkin brings, he has absolutely no chance in this fight, unless he breaks both of Povetkin's shoulders.

Haha, ****. Well, you can apply my comment to everyone who says that Wlad is a killing machine because he beat Peter, Brewster, Brock, Byrd, and Austin and Povetkin can't even get past his jab.

 

Byrd is well shot, he will be destroyed. He was even hurt to the body against the last light hitting journeyman that he fought.

Picking Byrd at this point is ignorant.

 

he has faced and convincingly beat very impressive competition for so early in his career, but unless he works on his defense, he can forget about dethroning wlad

 

Will see what happens when he fights someone worth a ****, Brock was overhyped and he got his head knocked off by Wladimir. The fighters coming up in the Heavywieght division are decent nothing more nothing less. I guess him and Chambers are the best fighters on the come up, niether fighter really excites me.

 

I really hope Povetkin has the grit in him like Fitzsimmons, Dempsey, Louis etc The kind that can slay a big guy. Even when they are physically inferior their mental fortitude is so much that they refuse to yield.

Povetkin is the sort of fighter we need today.

 

Povetkin will go through Byrd like crap though a goose. Povetkin is for real.

 

there's no such thing as a hw "russian" jerry quarry.
you can't compare white russians to white americans.

 

this is the dumbest post I've ever read. Stop your ethnic stupidity.

 

It´s hard to say if he´s overrated or not. I´m sure some people overrate him and others might underrate him. To know if he´s truly overrated, you´d need to know how the whole collective boxing world rates him on average and then also know how good he ACTUALLY is - which is very early to tell.

I´m sure a lot of people really want a fighter to save the division, so they´ll label the first boxer with the possible potential as such. Povetkin has certainly been the most promising and yes, gotten the "savior" label. This means that if he loses before getting to the top, a bunch of people will scream about him having been overrated from day one.

What is certain is that Povetkin has done excellently well in the division so far. He´s facing a recent heavyweight champion in his 14th fight. A champion who despite probably being on the slide now, reigned for a very long time and beat very good fighters. Povetkin´s wins over Friday Ahunanya, David Bostice, Richard Bango and Larry Donald in a 13 fight career are also very impressive, as is his #29 ranking at boxrec.com after so few fights.

I´m sure Povetkin will go far, even if he doesn´t turn out to be the next Tyson, Lewis or Holyfield.

 

it's not about ethnicity you ****ing moron.

 

Overall, good points. I favor AP over Byrd. But if Byrd has more than a bit left, this could be a tough fight. When a fighter reaches a certain age (37), it's hard to tell what they have left.

He may not be a "killing machine" but he's done a good imitation of one lately :yep Not sure if you want AP in there too soon vs Wlad. Let's see what AP can do vs the Byrds & Brocks, fighters Wlad

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I bet if Povetkin loses a fight before winning a title, a lot of people will write him off, but he´ll come back and dominate nonetheless, just like Wlad after the first Brewster fight.

 

How so?

In a few years, Byrd will be done. Right now he is on the decline...but he has still beaten and fought FAR better competition than AP, that cant be debated. Experience means something when your talking an up and coming YOUNG fighter vs an VERY experienced veteren.

AND, as I said, I wouldnt be surprised in the least if AP pulls this out. But as I also stated, to count Byrd out completely is also insane. And as you said "ignorant".

And WTF happened to your avatar.....?