Do people realize povetkin got battered?

Give me a break please. He had a bit of bruising around the eyes , nothing more. Most inflicted by elbows.
Have you a picture of his face looking like it went through a meat grinder?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/10/07/article-2449020-188C5E3300000578-34_306x423.jpg

 

He also had a pretty good cut on the bridge of his nose. To say Povetkin had just some swelling means you seriously need to lose your virginity.

Some of you guys really, really need to find another sport. You can't possibly be this stupid in the real world.

 

Wlad pitches another shutout

 

Here's Wlad illegally pushing Povetkins head down, illegally holding and hitting and then finishing it off with an elbow come forearm smash to the throat and face that wouldn't even be legal in MMA.

http://i.minus.com/ipPIC0hNXkLyy.gif

But in Klitschko land there was nothing wrong with what Wlad did and Povetkin was to blame for using head movement to slip Wlads jab to get inside and throw punches.

 

Do you ONLY care that Wlad won?

What about the fact that he could have won and probably got a KO or TKO if he'd have done less holding/hugging and more punching?

Or is that a fight you enjoyed watching.

To me it was a disgrace of a performance from a guy as talented as Wlad and it was a fiasco as far as a fight for the heavyweight championship of the world goes.

Basically the fight gave new meaning to the terms "winning ugly"

 

Povetkin was never in the fight but Wlad did fight ridiculously cautiously again. Excessive clinching in the sport is something that needs to be dealt with and people need to stop acting like Wlad invented the tactic in his last fight. There are guys doing it throughout the weight divisions and they all need pulling up on it.

 

If anything, the damage done to Povetkin makes this performance less defensible than it would have been had there been no real damage inflicted.

Wlad clearly affected Povetkin with the few shots he landed. Had he bothered to step his attack up in the slightest, he may well have been able to force a stoppage- without putting himself at any real risk. Utilise the jab a bit more, and clinch a bit less and at some point Povetkin either runs into something big or gets busted up to the extant that the fight is called.

If Wlad does that, the conversation we have about the fight is entirely different.

 

Um, battered in dribs and drabs on the very rare occasion Klitschko wasn't greedily humping the challenger to ensure he could monopolize the landed blows...

Very loose interpretation of "battered".

Povetkin naturally as the smaller man had to walk through shots to get inside. Yes, he got marked up in the process. That is to be expected. What happened once he got there is what people take issue with. He was denied the change to capitalize on getting inside - which he sacrificed his body and, yes, in a slow and methodical way, got somewhat battered to do - by the refusal of the ref to let there be any clean infighting unmarred by tie-ups and push-downs.

 

Eeeeeeeexactly.

 

:deal

There is no pride to be taken in "battering" your opponent by consistently cheating up to 20 times a round for 12 rounds.

 

Wlad vs Marciano


who takes it SQ49?