why is vitali seemingly getting a free pass? the problem i feel is that there are fighters like chagaev, thompson, povetkin, chambers, solis, valuev, ruiz, holyfield, haye, wlad, peter all of these are better opponents than briggs. i dont buy this **** that every man and his dog turned vitali down. as far as i can gather valuev and solis turned vitali down. he didnt indivdually approach the others and for a man of his experience, this fight is shite. adamek fighting grant is ridiculous. if the "big guy" excuse works then how much credit does haye get for fighting valuev? grant is shite, as the lewis and mcline fights showed. haye runs his mouth and got called out, he decided upon harrison as an opponent, for me this is good, but only cos of the location. povetkin and solis should be fighting named opponents and arent doing. the hw division is shite outside of wlad
So Vitali is supposed to go beg Chagaev or Povetkin to fight him? I think the only fighter you listed that would fight Vitali is Holyfield...if any of the other dudes wanted to fight Vitali we would know about it.
the point is, vitali is a great champion. this fight is not worthy of a great champion and there are far far better opponents than briggs. is is a joke fight, like the others i mentioned.
I think it's more about "the system" than it is the fighters themselves. They all try to do what's best for themselves and the system allows them to not take the best on.
I can tell you trying to defend Haye but he's the only heavyweight i know that has bashed the Klitchskos for the past 2 damn years. He has post pictures of him holding Wlad head. He said he can ko both of them without a problem. All of this trash talk he's doing, he hasn't ONCE back it up. Yea Haye beat Valuev but guess what? Wlad destroyed "the real" champion Chagaev in which it should be Wlad holding 3 title belts instead of 2. I said "real" cause Chagaev became the first fighter to beat Valuev. Both Vitali and Wlad has been desperatly wanted to fight Haye so bad. Wlad even agree to all Haye demands with the 50/50 split but what does Haye do? He stay quiet. Funny after Vitali and Wlad are schedule to fight Peter/Briggs, now all of a sudden Haye big mouth finally speak????? Now all of this Haye will fight freaking Harrison in a joke fight. See the different between Vitali and Haye is easily simple, Vitali wanted to fight Haye, Solis, Valuev but all 3 refuse to fight him. None of the top 10 refuse to fight Haye now did they? NOOOOO! So Haye could fight Solis,Adamek, Povetkin, Chagaev (his manadatory i believe). But yet again he choose to fight Harrison who Chagaev, Solis, Adamek, Povetkin are much better fighters then him.
Lol. I'm cool with luf but he needs to think long and hard about mentioning Povetkin name cause if he won't fight Wlad, what makes luf thinks Povetkin will fight Vitali? lol.
Ask Haye that question since he refuse to fight either Brothers. Or ask Solis, Povetkin, Valuev that question.
And btw i'm not trilled with Vitali fighting Briggs but again he wanted to fight either Haye, Valuev or Solis but none of the 3 refuse to fight. But none of the top 10 refuse to fight Haye right luf? And besides i don't think Briggs right now is far better then Harrison but atleast Briggs is a former champion that has beaten a real top ten heavyweight fighter while Harrison never has beaten any "real" top 10 heavyweight fighters.
wtf? i'm saying every hw outside of wlad being ridiculous, how is that defending haye. haye is in the category of "outside of wlad" haye, adamek, briggs, solis, povetkin are all taking joke fights
im not saying povetkin would take the fight, but atleast if vitali and all the others attempted to fight top 10 opposition the division would be more exciting