Best Wladimir Klitschko fights

Positively torrefied.

 

About 70 fights and barely any picks

 

He went all out guns a blazing against K'ovaylent Bonds and smashed his nose to smithereens. I've been told it was because he wanted to make it with the ring card girl who gave him an offer right before the fight and Wlad made it quick, beating him from pillar to post in a few rounds. It was like thunder and lightning in there for a few minutes, but it was as much lightning from the fists as thunder from the ballz, I hear.

 

Nearly all of his fights terribly boring

 

When you are that much better that your competition, fights tend to be one sided. Wlad was not only a heavyweight champion, he was a pound for pound talent.

 

Wlad was actually a destroyer type on the way up. As his jab and footwork developed, his opponents often backed up. Gifted with power, he could get a KO at any time.

You wont see harder left hooks than the one Wlad laded on Ray Austin, whom he Ko'd without throwing single right hand, or a better display of the jab which he hit Brewster with. The taking apart of Chris Byrd int he second fight was unreal. Watch the speed, accuracy and power when Wlad opens up. Byrd's face looked like road kill. The KO of Barrett was impressive, he left him face down in a pool of blood. Others already mentioned the Pulev fight.

 

Wlad's a fighter of two halves. Pre-Byrd II his fights were generally quite entertaining (Peter was an exception). Wlad had no compunctions about letting his hands go, and would go for the knockout from the opening bell. Post-Byrd II is when he started to become dull, safety-first Wlad which culminated in the atrocity that was the Povetkin fight.

I don't see anything dull about his earlier fights though.

 

I agree that his style was more entertaining but I do not recall any memorable fights during that period.The issue was his glass chin so something had to be done.Emmanuel was the right man for the job.

 

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The future seemed as shaky as the current heavyweight division, although Wladimir Klitschko eventually stopped Jameel McCline after 10 well-booed rounds at the Mandalay Bay Events Center tonight.

Klitschko dropped McCline -- who seemed frozen, unable to throw punches for most of the scheduled 12-round bout -- with a left hook-right hand-left hook combination. McCline, who began boxing only six years ago after serving five years in prison for gun running, dropped on his seat and was up at the count of nine. The bell rang, but his New York trainer, Jimmy Glenn, asked the referee, Jay Nady, to stop it.

In the heavyweight fight, it wasn't defense as much as a lack of offense. ''I hope the fans had fun,'' said Klitschko, who defended his World Boxing Organization title.

Wladimir was hardly impressive against a novice who is 28-3-3 with 16 knockouts. This Dr. Klitschko -- both brothers have doctorates in sports science -- was well ahead on the scorecards. McCline was given two rounds by one judge and one each by the other two.

''The plan was to take my time,'' said Klitschko, who landed only 183 punches in 10 rounds, according to CompuBox. McCline threw only 307 and landed a meager 61.

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Wladimir Klitschko, the so-called "future of the heavyweight division", retained his World Boxing Organisation heavyweight title in Las Vegas on Saturday night, stopping a seemingly intimidated and unsure Jameel "Big Time" McCline in 10 well-booed rounds.

But if the younger brother of Vitali Klitschko is the future of the heavyweight division, the future is as bleak as the present. "There is no future,"

Klitschko left many doubts. Yes, the Ukrainian is big, 6ft 7in, 240lb. Yes, he can punch a bit. Two left hooks and a right hand sent McCline down in his own corner at the end of the 10th round and the New Yorker's trainer, Jimmy Glenn, refused to let him out for the 11th round, saying "He was running tired and I didn't want him to get hurt."

But the WBO champion, 40-1 with 37 knockouts, looked easy to hit and the few times McCline raised his hands in anger, he seemed to have no taste for the battle. "I don't want to prove my head, how hard it is," he said in English, his fourth language

 

Most guys are destroyer types on the way up cos the guys they face on the way up are mostly roll-overs. Hasim Raham was blowing everybody away in the first 3 rounds on the way up.
Remember also that Wlad was stopped by one of the journeyman he fought.
That same journeyman was beaten by 13-0 Hasim Rahman.

 

I'm not sure if you're being satirical. That was one of the most disgraceful performances from boxer and referee I have ever seen.

 

Wlad moved rather quickly and fought often not he way up , beating opponents like Axel Schultz ( Foreman and Moorer ) and Phil Jackson ( Lennox Lewis ) who fought for world title belts. In less than 4 years he was a world champion. 90% of those destroyer types never become world champion, Wlad if you can get by the hate was a real talent.

 

I think you kinda missed the point.. Its hard to look bad when you are facing low level hand picked opposition.
When the opponents got better , Wlad found himself deposited to the canvas and counted out by two guys who weren't good enough to beat Hasim Rahman.. Those are just the facts.

 

Facts like Wlad is 1-0 vs Rahman, Lewis 0-1? Wlad holds the record for being champion and not being floored. He fought and beat many punchers, and took re-matches vs some of them. Wlad ducked no one.