Povetkin, What am I missing?

How on gods green earth did Povetkin beat Byrd and win every round against Larry Donald?

What am I missing?

What I saw last night was a very limited heavyweight. Povetkin is slow footed for his size. His handspeed is fair to average. His defense is fair to poor, he gets hit with straight shots and drops his hands when pulling out. He looks like he would swell and cut so easily with his fair skin. His power was nothing to be admired. He is not an accurate puncher and wastes a tremendous amount of punches.

His strengths. He obviously has a winning attitude. When Chambers would hit him clean he always answered. He has a good work rate and throws a lot of combinations (even if he only lands infrequently).


I do not see anyway this guy would beat a prime Chris Byrd who would seemingly box circles around him. I did not see the Byrd fight and I am assuming Byrd has really fallen as a fighter.


So what am I missing? How is this guy beating quality opponents? Chambers looks like he was paid off last night to not throw punches. I believe he had thrown like 15 total punches in round 11 and 16 in round 12! Chambers hit Povetkin at will.

Again, how is this Povetkin winning against top people? He looks like a slow plodder who could fight at cruiser and not even be special at Crusier!@

 

I said in my posting this is an impressive list of quality people he is beating. My question is how is he doing it? I am not seeing this guys attributes.

I did not see the Byrd fight. A prime Byrd, from what I saw last night, would not lose rounds to this guy. Byrd would easily outbox Povetkin.

Povetkin's only real attribute in my opinion is his desire to throw punches. He looks very average to poor in other categories.

Those of you who saw the Byrd fight, was it a fallen byrd or does Povetkin have something I am not seeing fron the fight last night.

Again it appeared that Chambers gave this fight away like Bhop gives away all of his round by throwing 10-20 punches a round.

 

I think the general agreement among boxers and boxing analysts is that an impressive amateur does not always make an impressive professional (look at Mark Breland). It is a different fight game.

As far as the professional fight game, he is still not terribly experienced at 15 fights.

What I am asking in this thread is what qualities does Povetkin have that I am missing..I can only assume it is desire to win, because his skills sets to me are nothing impressive.

I would contrast Povetkin with a guy like Zab Judah. Judah has very impressive skill sets but lacks the mental toughness and concentration to place him as an ATG.


See where I am going with this?

 

I would tend to agree with this assessment of Donald and Byrd. I did see Donald when he fought Valuev and he still looked like a decent fighter, yes Sasha won every round versus Donald. The fact that he won every round versus Donald, who is a solid B to B+ fighter is leaving me to believe that Povetkin has some intangible quality that is not readily observable.

 

I totally disagree with him being hard to catch clean from what I saw last night. Some rounds Chambers was landing greater than 50% to upwards of 70% of his total punches.

As far as impressive pressure fighter? I would disagree with that statement too. I would say he is a pressure fighter who is average looking. He throws punches for the sake of throwing punches, he is terribly inaccurate and doesnt land many clean blows. I am sure he looks better against poor defensive fighters.


I am not going to dispute his amateur experience it definitely helps and he was a great amateur, but we all know from experience that this isnt always the case.

 

This is a forum and we debate issues here. We do not just accept what others say and that is the end of it.

Your point about Ali is ridiculous and reduces to absurdity.