Putting Vitalis POWER into perspective for the FAN BOYS

Lennox made some comments in the Arreola fight about how Vitali wasn't hitting him that hard with the right - and wondered if he was nursing an injury. I took that to mean "he's not hitting him as hard as he hit me"

I assumed Vitali was avoiding putting 100% on his punches due to injury concerns.

 

Sure. Could be. I wasn't disagreeing with your analysis - just commenting.

 

Vitali arm punches more than Wlad does. Is that just poorer technique, or is he doing that deliberately? I'm assuming strength-wise they are similar, and Vitali likely naturally a little stronger because he's a little bigger. Wlad's faster with better technique, so punch for punch Wlad is a more powerful puncher when he commits to the shots

 

hummm

Just watch his fights, scrap the silly statistics. He is so obviously not punching very hard now compared to earlier. It has nothing to do with later opponents taking his best, he doesn't commit to his punches anymore (or he can't).
So while you're right that he's no Earnie Shavers, the excercise in statistics is quite unnecessary.

 

Iceman71, you raise some great points. That's some well thought out stuff.

In the end Vitali beats the **** outta people, and Tyson knocks them the **** out.