Manny's reaction speaks volumes. WALDO showed more agression answering Manny back than he did in the first 11 rounds.
I think its actually good for Wlad that Manny has high standards though, and it may be one of things that keeps him winning.. A more passive trainer who let's him get away with a lax approach might have proved to be his undoing at some point.
Manny is probably sick of having to fly out to Germany for all the fights. Wlad has had tons of opportunities to look like ferocious the destroyer that the US press wants...it's not going to happen. It's just not his temperament. Wlad was winning the fight extremely easily, Manny was mad about what the papers will say? That's actually bad corner work. What If Wlad had opened up and punched himself out, got countered? Wlad was doing the right thing. When he was chasing after Chmabers, he was off balance. Wlad should fight the way that gets him wins and forget about looking how others want him to be. Germans love him, he's rich and he's a champion. No need to change what's working.
As a long time supporter of the klitchkos I am very happy with what manny did. Yeah its one thing to get the victory and play it safe. But if Wlad wants respect and wants to really call himself HW champ he needs to step it up and dominate. Lets face it Fast Eddie was little to no threat the last three rounds. Finally Manny lit a LONG OVERDUE fire under his ass. People watch the HW division for knockouts not for boring U.D. after boring U.D.
I remember the glory days of the heavyweight division, Ali, Foreman, Frazier... with their 100% ko ratios... as boxing fans we should demand nothing less than every fight ending in a devastating, hospitalizing, career ending first round K.O.
You forgot that back then they didn't wear gloves and fought in an octagon while fending off tigers and still had 100 percent KO in the first round records!!!!
Manny was simply whipping up his fighter and it worked. That's what trainers do. He did it to Lennox Lewis all of the time... most notably in the Lewis vs Tyson fight. Manny was worried about a crazy ass decision.
Worried about a crazy decision in Germany???:huh The only thing that Emmanuel Steward is worried about is lining his pockets with money. Wlad is'nt doing him any favors on the financial end of his splits by fighting safety first fights. HBO already declined to televise his fight with Chambers, you can bet that more fights of non-televised Wlad fights in the US are to follow.......and with it, money out of Emmanuel Steward's pockets. Emmanuel Steward is looking for the money fights in the US, and Wlad's not going to get those fighting safety first, which is why Emmanuel was upset in the corner.