An Inch or A Mile: Klitschko vs Peter

I don't understand how anyone can watch this and still deny Wlad has a fine jab?

 

Man, how time flies. Wlad looks so young then.

 

Past prime MW James Toney did a better job out boxing Peter than Wlad did.

Any genuine great HW would have made mince meat out of a joke like Peter. Hell , it didn't even take a great to demolish the guy. Look what Helenius did to him.

 

I'm not a fan of peter ,but he was in far better shape for Wlad than he was for Helenius,plus he was 5 years younger.

 

Peter was Peter. The guy never had good conditioning. If he had elite level endurance he would have knocked Wlad out in 2005.

Wlad produced the same cowardly hug fest in the rematch against the same Peter Helenius toy'd with before knocking unconscious.

 

I don't know, mcvey - In this bout, as I recall it, the jab did look good when Wlad was fresh out of the stalls but, it also dropped in effectiveness fairly quickly. The clean, extended, straight, snapping jab soon became either an outstretched left arm or a left prod or a left sweep to his right.

Wlad has often shown us nice looking boxing, in bits and pieces. Nothing sustained, however, I feel.

 

I always learn something new from you breakdowns . Great work escudo.

 

Peter's own jab to his chest and stomach had him hesitant to throw it later into the fight, so I do see where you are coming from. I'm no fan of Wlad's by the way.

 

From memory Peter landed a hard left hook, I think it was in round three and Wlad took it well. This is when I thought he's win the fight for sure.

While Wlad did go down, they were partly from foul punches.

 

I know, Chap - and I doubt anyone reading my posts on here and on the General Forum would have me down as one, either.

I think that, given Wlad was on the comeback trail, after Brewster, it was a reasonable performance from him, at that time. But, it also showed that he was still vulnerable to anyone, who was prepared to get stuck in and had something vaguely resembling an offense. I also believe, although I'm prepared to be corrected, that the first Peter bout was where we began to see Wlad's overt 'Hold-Mount-Lean-Down' technique, in it's rawest form.

 

Yeah , Peter caught Wlad on the back of the head for two of the knock downs but that was mainly due to Wlad turning his back from the combat and trying to run away.
He pulled the same stunt in the Fury and Povetkin fights.
See here so you know im not lying.

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You critique Johnson for struggling with guys other greats would blow away , would it be fair to say no other genuine ATG would go through the horrors against Peters like Wlad did?

Peter at the time was hyped up life Jeff Lacy was , although a lot more fans didn't buy into the Peter hype like they did with Lacy. Remember he was actually the second coming of Mike Tyson and was going to blast away Joe Calzaghe?
Don't you think if Wlad the the skill and talent of an ATG he would have been able to mop the floor with Peter like Calzaghe did to Lacy?

 

This is a good point, wlad is so mentally weak as a fighter and terrified to get hit, that he literally runs away if he cannot ilegally clinch

Makes you wonder how would his career went if they didn't allow him so much clinching

 

There is a substantial amount of truth in this post.

 

That's when he really began to turn me off ,that and the," water will eventually wear away stone" style of drip ,drip until his opponent is virtually defenceless before he hazard's a concerted attack. If he had been American I think he would have been severely castigated by their media.The German's seem not to care how a result is achieved, just as long as it is achieved.