Klitschko - a disaster waiting to happen?

No doubt in my mind whatsoever that if Wlad crashes to another stoppage loss there will be the usual rush of horrified defenders, jubillant critics, big exaggerations and much rewriting of history. That's how it goes.

And why it's normally so much better to evaluate someone's place in history after they're retired. A win makes you a god, a loss makes you the worse bum ever to put on a pair of gloves in some eyes.

 

Wow! You should write on the front page!! You mean there's a boxer out there with talent that hasn't lost in a while but he can be knocked out?

Congratulations you just described every good boxer on earth.

 

Austin and Brewster.

I do hope you mean NON-FIGHT Jack.

 

Good Post. Thank you for a fair assessment, which is rare on this board.

You are right, he is very vulnerable and does seem to panic as soon as he gets hit big. I too, feel he will be beaten due to this fact. He is a case in which he has extreme strengths, but he also has an apparant weakness. Are his strengths becoming strong enough to protect his weakness? Maybe. we'll see.

 

I hope your not criticizing him for being "dominant" now. Whats next? atsch

 

Dominant. :rofl Another word thrown around loosely by his supporters.

Austin was a neccessary evil. However it was in no way some career defining win. Infact what career defining win(s) does Waldo have?

Maybe Sam Peter if Sam turns out to be a superstar himself. Outside of that who? Chris Byrd? The same Byrd who struggled to beat McCline and Golota?

Byrd remains to be his biggest career win. A guy Lewis never took seriously, who we've witnessed barely scrape by in many of his title fights. An undersized, overachiever essentially.

Maybe Brock outside of that. However Barrett never amounted to much. Mercer was always right on the outside of winning a major title. Jefferson, Botha, who?

Lets see Klitschko get by these names, at least some of them:

Peter (again)
Povetkin
Chagaev
Ibragimov
Solis


And if he does that? THEN you can call him dominant. Not until then sorry. And let's hope he doesn't have to jab and grab his way through them. We don't need anymore reminders of John Ruiz.

 

I'd make Chagaev-Waldo even money

Povetkin I'd personally favor to beat Waldo. He has the pressure style and the skillset to make it happen. Only question mark being his chin but I believe he'd get it done.

Waldo should beat Ibragimov. But again, defining a dominant champion is one who controls the majority of belts at least, and has beaten or turned back the majority of the top 10. Waldo hasn't done that imo.

 

Yet, somehow Austin proved to be almost too much for heavyweight champ Ibragimov who barely scratched a draw with him having to climb up from the canvas in the process