How Corrie Sanders Changed the World: Still Feeling It Five Years Later

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  1. Brady Crytzer

    Brady Crytzer New Member Full Member

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    As boxing approaches its eagerly anticipated superfight between Wladimir Klitschko and Sultan Ibragimov, fans around the world prepare to close the proverbial book on one of the darkest and most obscure chapters in the history of boxing’s flagship division. While recent title unifications have revitalized the sport, a heavyweight title convergence has eluded the boxing world for nearly a decade. It is a notion that we as boxing pundits have learned to accept in order to save our ever-weakening hearts, there just is no clear answer why it doesn’t happen, it just doesn’t. Things were not always this way however. Much like Floyd Mayweather’s new five year plan, there once was a structure to our favorite division of heavy hitters. Think back, if you will, to 2003 when the heavyweight division had a “next big thing.” A big thing that’s dreams were crushed on a tape delayed March night by a South African golfer named Corrie Sanders...

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  2. Beatboxer

    Beatboxer Well-Known Member Full Member

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    This occurred when I was first starting to become a serious boxing fan.

    I actually think it was for the better. Wlad began after this to iron out some flaws in his style and to acknowledge that his chin was perhaps a weakness and that some changes would have to be made if he was to fulfil his undoubted potential.

    If Wlad had fought Lewis in 2003 and Lennox dived all over him like he did Grant and Golota, Wlad would have been stopped early.

    It would not be good for the division today if its preimer fighter was beaten by the preceeding eras number 1 fighter in such brutal fashion. It would further degrade an already depleted divison.
     
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