Klitschko hater quote of the week!!!

Jones was past his prime and was obviously not the same when he fought Johnson in his next fight. While Wlad has never been literally knocked out, his reactions to getting hit solid are priceless, the guy has more panic attacks than most mental patients.

 

Funny post here. Wlad go toe to toe? He does, what do you think he did in the Thompson fight? Stuck that right over and over again before Thompson could do anything. What you really mean is, "why does Wlad fight the way he does, why doesn't he stick his chin out and let a HW hit it!" And when Wlad does clinch an opponent he does it just like Ali did. Ticks every opponent and their fans off, just like ali did. Watch Wlad fight, and you might just learn something. He's good. The hook off the jab is golden. Lennox would have had a heck of a time keeping it from KOing him.

 

It seems to be more a mental issue than a chin issue. Directly after the Sanders fight he looked completely coherent and was standing on seemingly steady legs. Someone with a horrible chin who was just smoked in 2 rounds would usually be sitting in the corner looking disoriented as the doctor shines the light in his eyes. I think in reality Wlad may have a pretty solid chin and if he could control the panic attacks could go undefeated for the remainder of his career.
Most of the KD's he has suffered have been the result of poor stamina or being off balance.

 

Boy, Wlad and Steward know they are starting to dominate and things are really getting great, when the criticism is about what is in his "mind", rather than what is the ring.

 

I wouldnt call Thompson/Wlad toe to toe action by a long shot, I'm Talking Brewster/Liakhovich, Morrison/Ruddick, Bowe/Holyfield etc... Wlad doesnt have the chin nor the mental toughness to prove his skeptics, like myself wrong, he had has opertunity against Iggy, but he appeared to be scared to throw the right for fear of being countered, yet, when he did land a picture perfect straight right and had Iggy hurt on the ropes, let him off the hook by going back to his clinching style yet again.

Say what you want about Ali, but his chin was tested and he passed with flying colors, Wlad on the other hand still looks very unsure of himself in the ring at times, and when the going gets tough, he's seems to deflate faster than a Huffy tire on a glass filled street.

 

If he would have fought Iggy toe to toe you would have given him props?

Nope.

 

Uh, who's the man right now:huh .
Let's give him a break.
He TKO'd Brewster, so he avenged that loss, Sanders wouldn't last two rounds with this guy today.

 

Your right Irlandsk, though what you described the doctors not doing in the Sanders fight, is the complete opposite of what they did in the first Brewster fight. I dont know what it is with Wlad, I too think it's more mental than physical, he just dont know how to fight his way out of a tough situation. In the Peter fight he did kinda tough it out, but he did it in a coward like fashion, turning his back to avoid punches, excessively clinching before his oppenent to get off his punches, he didnt look like a champ, more or less a guy trying to survive in there.

 

WALDO has more stoppage losses than Khan so must be considered more chinny. Also Khans opponent had something like a 90% KO rate which is apparently an all important statistic when judging a fighters prowess - he was obviously fighting a monster, a true all time great.

Also Khan was ahead on the cards at the time of the stoppage, and before the fight someone he didn't know used the toilet in his dressing room. Obviously a fix.

 

Yes, especially if Iggy landed solid on Wlad and he was still standing or didnt have a panic attack. I didnt give Iggy much of a chance going in, but I did think he may surprise Wlad with a slick left hand here and there, but both men fought a terrible fight, and fight fans let them know it.

 

Call me a conspiracy nut but I really believe there was something dodgy with that first Brewster fight. If you watch Wlad against Purrity, he actually was gassed and took many more flush shots from Purrity than he did from Brewster and yet he was not at all out of it at the end, you could see he was coherent and disappointed that his stamina let him down.
The only time I've seen him completely out of it was in the first Brewster fight but he seemed out of it before he got hit with anything significant. He wasn't even responsive in his corner after the second round. I don't buy that he gassed after 2 ****ing rounds and any fight where that scumbag Don King is involved can have any number of corrupt actions involved with it.
The Sam Peter fight showed wlad's poor reaction to pressure, I think he learned a lot from that fight however and I don't think that nearly dropping a solid fighter like Peter in the 12th is a good example of a guy just trying to survive. He dominated most of that fight, which was foul-filled on both sides.
The guy has improved a lot and has come back from three disastrous losses to rule the HW division, he deserves credit for that.

 

Good post.

 

Hmmm even I can agree on the last 2 paragraphs.

Anyway, this thread is ****, a pale imitation of the real quote of the week threads. It's not even like the 'hater' said anything too ridiculous for Gods sake

 

I already tried to tell KOBE it's an imitation.

KLIT-ites need to come up with their own posting techniques...:verysad

 

That was a fair and accurate post for the most part. I cant say for sure what happend in the Brewster fight, but if you watch the fight closely, Brewster did land alot of effective body shots early, I remember RJJ commenting on it, and Merchant saying something like " So you think Wlad doesnt have a glass body, but he has a glass chin Roy"? Who knows for sure the cause, though Wlad's team did fire cutman Al Gavin after the fight, because of him wiping Wlad down with Vaseline before the fight.

Wlad does deserve credit, but it's not like he's dominating a weak division like Tyson did in the late 80's, Wlad's had his up's and downs, and he still has a few guys he needs to beat before he proclaims himself king IMO.