Frank Bruno vs Wladmir Klitschko

Bruno was good at KO'ing washed up old men, blown up cruisers, bums, and shot fighters, I'll give you that. Anytime he came up against a decent puncher...robot dance.

 

Wlad would slowly break down bruno.

 

Bruno would flatten him after 5-6 rounds. Far too good and Wlad does not have the work rate to cause Bruno stamina problems.

 

i can see this fight going one of two ways.

bruno wins by ko early

or wlad wins by late stoppage .

bruno always seemed to have a stamina problem but was a really hard puncher!!!!

 

What did he do better? Please expand. Lets look at Bruno`s losses. Witherspoon Tyson x2 LL and Bonecrusher Smith. 2 HOF heavyweights and 2 EXCELLENT contenders. Meanwhile Vlad had 3 losses all to journeymen in devastating fashion. Bruno when hurt was like a dear caught in a cars headlights. He just froze and took his licks. He wasnt an intelligient fighter but boy he COULD take a punch. When Vlad was cracked by South African Corrie Sanders he suffered one of the most humiliating losses by any top heavy of all times. Top heavyweights dont get beaten like that.

Bruno was an immense talent and went through his early opponents like Godzilla when through Japan. BUT he wasnt a smart fighter. When hurt he couldnt take a knee didnt know how to get on his bike or even to cover up. He just stood there and got punched into a bag. My money would still be on Bruno purely because of the era he fought in. The 90`s was the second great era of heavyweight boxers. The current crop are worst than when Mike Tyson landed on the scene in the early 80`s and that includes Vlad. Anyone remember Axel Schultz? Thats whom Vlad would have been if he was around in the Bruno LL Tyson Holyfield era. Just another able contender.

 

Are you saying Michael Spinks wasn't a top heavyweight?

And Bruno was slow, one-dimensional, and very unintelligent. He had great difficulty slipping a punch and couldn't fight at all off the back foot. Oh yes, and he forever suffered from terrible stamina.

Bruno has one chance, and that's to bullrush Wlad and KO him early. If he failed (and the probability is that he would), Wlad would keep him at long range using his jab, and use his superior leverage in clinches to tire Bruno to a standstill.

 

Bruno ko wlad

 

Wlad and Bruno are very similair.

Both huge, great jabs, good skills, great power in the right hand. And both have stamina issues and poor chins, its a pick em really, though I would take Bruno.

 

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This is honestly a pick em fight.

I would favour Wlad but Bruno would be the most dangerous challenge he had ever faced and would negate many of his strengths.

If Bruno came along today he could prety much help himself to a belt.

 

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Mate, a pint of what you're on! I've posted at length on Bruno before but fans like you keep blowing up his record and ability to levels it never achieved. Wlad 2008 would destroy any version of Bruno. And I wouldn't trust Bruno to beat Sam Peter, Bruno's glass jaw would come into play, and I suspect a Chagaev fight would be a late stoppage win for the Uzbek man. Bruno never had the stamina for a long fight, and his chin was easy to find and brittle. Look at his record and try and find one real contender Bruno ever beat, answer is he didn't. Wlad's recent contests have been against dangerous opponents: Byrd Brock & Thompson. And he's stopped all of them. Bruno never stopped guys like these, oh sorry, Carl Williams, and a fat Joe Bugner, be serious!:hi:

 

LOL, no he would not....

It would not matter what era he fought in (and this era is probably no worse overall than the 80s), Bruno's demons would always haunt him; mentally he lacked the tools to beat the best, be that the 80s, 90s or 00s; he physically was was arguably the finest specimen to be a contender in the history of the sport.

 

Bruno's lack of stamina would not be much of an issue against Wlad, because his workrate is non-existent at times.

If Bruno could outjab Lennox Lewis he wouldn't have had any trouble with Wlad :deal

If Wlad got the right hand going he would have a sniff, but would in turn leave himself open to being slapped into row Z by Bruno.