Now everybody says Vitali is too old

Calling him old could be to do with him being 40 years old and 16 years into his boxing career. Plus he had a very successful kickboxing career (although he got sparked once by a kick to the head).

 

That's what happens when you lose an event so decisively.

Vitali would never have lost an event like that in his prime.

 

at 40 noone should be in the ring, particulalry at the highest levels (even accounting for the subpar heavyweight levels today).

 

BUT, last night the jab and right hand seemed to be thrown less, and when they landed did not have the same forceful impact. I get the fact that Chisora take a good shot, but guy we saw dust Adamek a few months ago looked 3x better than the guy we saw last night.

A younger, and perhaps un-injured Vitali moves better, throws more punches, and does more damage when he lands That guy would have had an easy night with Chisora.

Age might have caught up to Vitali. Don't get me wrong, I think he can get a stoppage win his next title fight, but when you older, an some of the things that made you great are in decline its time to start thinking about retirement.

Boxing can be a strange game as people over react to a fighters last performance. Perhaps Vitali looks like he did vs. Adamek, Arreola, Peter, and company in his next fight and people forgt about this one.

Time will tell.

 

They were thrown less because he fought a better standard of boxer with a harder style and a good chin.

He looked brilliant against Adamek, just accept that he had a difficult fight against a tough opponent, noone said he looked old when he was slapping that boy around in Wroclaw, but now he has a hard fight people are saying he's gotten old overnight

 

this is probably the worst he has ever looked.
He's 40, he's slowing down, his punches don't have that snap in them anymore, his stamina has started to fail him, and the left hand injury( if it's true) didn't help him much either.

Still he schooled Chis with one hand and won a shootout unanimous decision.

 

Yes, the fact that his left was used 1/3 as much as it normally is, and when it was used, it more than likely had very little behind it.......that is a fact that some won't acknoledge.

And yet even in light of this FACT, he still won 10 of 12 rounds.

Yeah, time to call it a career........

 

wait hold on...
Stop being a ****ing child for a second.

What does throwing less jabs has to do with the quality of opponent?

It's not like he bombarded with hundreds of jabs but couldn't hit Chisora because he was too slick, he just didn't throw a jab at all, or very rarely, and when he did he connected.

He barely used his left hand jab, i don't think there's a fight where Vit averaged less jabs per round then this, what does that mean that Chisora was the hardest fighter he ever faced?...horse****.

And yes Vitali visibly slowed down since Adamek, it's as easy to just watch the fights in parallel to spot on the obvious.

 

No it's not, he was put under more pressure and had to work harder with a less hittable opponent

How has he slowed down?

I'm pretty sure the wild swing at his arm from Chisora was what caused the injury

 

Yes, if Vitali's left hand was in full commission, Chisora would have gotten the Arreola/Peter/Adamek treatment, if not worse.

Anyone could see the fight and read the stats and see that Vitali was fighting with one useable hand.

 

i dunno what or who caused the injury....the point is Vitali barely used his range finding jab or left hook and looked lifeless and slow as ****.


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Give Chisora some credit he did what nobody has done since corrie sanders, gave vitali a hard fight, vitali still bested him