I was at a wedding, so I couldn't watch it. By all reports it was a pretty dominant performance. Some are trying to say that Brewster didn't show up- from just what i have read, it seems like things went more or less the same way as they did for the first four rounds of the first fight, with conservative jabs replacing the big punches that gassed Wladdy and unlitmately lead to his downfall. In any event, Wlad showed a lot of guts in showing up against a guy who had beaten him, and a big puncher at that. The truth in these things is usually somewhere in between extremes of oppinion: if Brew didn't want to fight, it may have had something to do with swallowing 50% of Wladdy's jabs. I still like Brew, and I wish him well whether he continues his career or not. We has a lot of good memories, and I am sad to here that for whatever reason, this one was not competitive. It feels like Wladdy has finally turned the corner now. No one was impressed by the TOS techinical decison. After the Peter fight, a lot of us said "Yeah, but he hit the deck three times." Nor where a lot of us inpressed by Byrd, Brock or Austin: these guys did not have the power to physically challenge Wlad. Avenging a defeat against a dangerous puncher puts things in context. And at some point, you have to say that an impressive string of victories is an impressive string of vicories. Now lets see unification with Sultan/Chag.
Well said. Reports out now that Wlad was fighting with a broken finger at some point -- impressive. Brewster's head wasn't into the fight... maybe the eye concerns played into that, which was disappointing. I'm not a Wlad fan but I respect what he's done... I want to see a rematch with Peter in the future.
