Official Poll: Ike Ibeabucci and Wlad Klitscko

You can say limited resume all you want, he still went toe to toe with Tua (A guy who you are talking high about in this very thread) and won. He also beat unbeaten slickster Chris Byrd. To simply laugh him off when he beat two elite fighters and was never beaten is insane.

 

This is an impossible argument to prove. Ike was good. But, there is reason Ike is in jail, he is not a mentally tough person. So, he most likely would not be able to deal with someone as smart as Wladimir. I wouldn't doubt if he responded to pressure the way Oliver McCall or Mike Tyson did. Thats the way the mentally challenged react to pressure. Wlad's ring intelligence would beat someone with a ten cent head 99 times out of a 100.

 

I don't laugh him off, I just think he is RIDICULOUSLY overrated based on what he actually did in the ring. Two fights do not prove that he was nearly as good as people suggest that he is.:-(

 

I could really see Ike getting a huge KO in the first 6 rounds, but I think Wlad gets off the canvas at least once and holds on--literally--for a late round rally and decision.

 

Ike had ring intelligence, and him being sent to jail shows he isn't a tough person?

Watch the Tua fight, that'll give you all the assurance you need of that he was a mean SOB

Ikes power and superhuman workrate would KO the mentally weak and china chinned Wlad within 3 rounds.

 

Wlad would jab and counter the **** out of the overhyped, slow crazy man who had his circuits fried vs Tua. This dude left himself so open for straight rights when he'd wind up his haymaker hook that he would've gotten blasted by rights. Dude never fought a good fighter his own size, let alone someone significantly bigger. :!:

 

Byrd who is a much more slick and better defensive fighter than Ike couldn't counter him. Tua may not have been his height, but considering he has ATG power and couldn't drop him despite landing everything on him, Wlad wouldn't either.