My thoughts on Vitali Klitschko

Rocky for 1 thing would use the crouch to go small, slipping punches on the way in (something Adamek can't do) to unload at his range. Rocky is far harder to hit and is far better at getting into range and landing meaningful punches. Are we forgetting Byrd managed to get past Prime Vitali's outside game to beat him up at mid range?

Granted he maybe a bit small to pull it off, but Vitali has been caught roiding in the past, so for the sake of argument we can put Rocky on roids

 

I was very impressed and I don't think there's been a 40 year old heavyweight who is better than Vitali at 40. He is very inconsistent since his comeback, though:

Peter: very impressive, even though Peter was in his worst shape ever, he destroyed mentally and physically

Gomez: Vitali looked okay, Gomez may be better than given credit for and has the style to make an old man look bad. Bonus points for wiping the sweat off of Gomez' forehead during the press conference.

Arreola: Many thought Vitali wouldn't be able to handle the pressure from a young, big hard hitting opponent. To my surprise, Klitschko fought a perfect fight and dominated Chris. Arguably Klitschko's career best performance.

Johnson: Even though Johnson had no motivation to fight whatsoever, Klitschko looked pretty bad.

Sosnowski: The Pole was in there longer than he should have. Again, Vitali's timing and reflexes seemed off, typical signs of aging. Looked bad again.

Briggs: He dominated Briggs nicely, but somehow I had the impression that Shannon shouldn't have been on his feet after the barrage of punches he took.

Adamek Here he fights a top4 contender and completely controls him and seems to be exactly as fast and well-timed as he was 10 years ago.

Mind you, he still only lost a handful of rounds in all of those fights combined, but he does seem to be somewhat inconsistent.

 

Braddock, Patterson and Henry Cooper had no business at HW. Neither did Jerry Quarry. Yet they are mentioned as important wins to Louis, Liston, Ali. Today they and Marciano and so many others would be cruisers. Joe Louis only fought 17 opponents over 200 pounds in his career.

 

Really, when did this happen? atsch

 

Excuse me? Vitali was injured. Byrd wouldn't have won the fight without the injury. What story are you trying to sell here?

 

What happened to Vitali's leg in the 8th/9th? His timing was on last night, but his body only has 1 or 2 fights left guranteed.

 

:rofl:rofl

 

At best it was expected that Adamek would take two or three rounds, by being able to get in and out.
Be one of the few that could take a round from Vitillie, no one really expected Adamek to win.



First thing that went wrong is Adamek found out Vittilie can hit in the first round, and that few inches more reach had a hammer on it.
Vitiallie was getting off first, and controlling the distance.

Both the brothers can move backwards very fast. Neither are there to be in a slug fest.
Against speed one comes in at a lower weight, to be faster too.
Everyone says the brothers are faster than expected. Once again some one fast is not as fast as expected.

Vittilie did let Adamek survive a bit because last time vs Solis everyone was upset.

I remember how some Brazilian who had never been down was taken as Wlad's first fight I think it was after Brewster, so he could get some rounds in. A perfect long hook to the temple KO'ed that guy in the first and Wlad had to apologize because the idiots booed.
I remember Tyson having to do the same.

I must admit I saw Vitillie missing a lot of punches, some he should not have missed. Everyone misses a punch here and there. Had he caught with a few of those punches it could have been over 2-3 rounds earlier.

 

Peter: No he wasnt in his worst shape ever

Gomez: He is underated, not for nothing he dominated the cruiser for 10 years! Vitali was not 100%!

Arreola: Agree

Johnson: Vitali won every single round. Its not so easy to look good, when the opponent is only in a defence mode!

Sosnowski: Vitali gives not 100%. He plays with him

Briggs: terrible job from his corner and the ref

Adamek. Vitali plays with him