Name me a great HW that has never been KO'd and i'll name ten that has... sanders retired about 5 years ago maybe thats the reason they havent had a rematch :yep
Or maybe it's because WALD got his brother to do the fighting for him, knowing that he'd get KO'd again if they had a rematch :think Oh I'm sure you can name plenty of great heavies that have been KO'd, I wouldn't doubt it for a second. It's who you get KO'd by and at what stage of your career that makes it meaningful. That and not claiming to have been poisoned after the fact, obviously.
Yes but his Cruiserweight accomplishments outweight WALDS at heavyweight, all within a 20 fight career too :deal
WALD would be fun to watch if he'd only let his hands go more often. Lewis was too safety first at times but when he had a bum in front of him he'd generally land the bomb. Ibragimov and Thompson both wouldn't have got past 4-5 rounds with Lewis. Probably 2 rounds each with prime Tyson.
Everyone in this thread keeps talking ****, especially Gay Derrick, and Wlad just keeps on winning. He just keeps on making all these idiots look stupid with their predictions of him getting knocked out. I haven't seen Wlad actually hurt in a fight since the Brewster fight. In the Peter fight he was just knocked down, got right back up, and kicked Peter's ass. Keep talking ****, he'll keep winning, and you'll still keep looking stupid.
Look at the difference in quality of opposition.... Lewis had 32 KO's in 41 victories, hardly a poor KO record and when you consider he spent 11 years at the very top in an extremely strong division it's pretty good. I don't know what WALDO's KO record is, I know his percentage is better than Lewis's but that doesn't tell the full story. I suspect Bruno had a better KO percentage than Lewis too but that doesn't make him the better fighter it just means he padded his record out more.
Regardless of everything else you said, if a man gets knocked down by another man in the ring then it usually means he's hurt atsch You're right about him making fools of the people who predict he'll lose though, for what it's worth.
Even if Sanders made another comeback & Wlad fought & beat him these haters would say he was too old. There's no winning against the pure hate these guys have for Klitschko.
You are right, he wasn't hurt in the Peter fight because Peter never hit him with a power shot. All 3 KD's came from glancing blows. Wlad is much better defensively than he was back then and Peter is much better than the green and inexperienced guy he was back then. Should be a very interesting fight when they rematch next year. I think it comes down to whether or not Peter comes in good shape or not, if Wlad is able to get to him first before he chin-checks Wlad and if the referee allows Wlad to clinch/hold as much as he was able to last time.
Peter caught Wlad flush with a hook at the end of the 3rd round. This is undisputed. So he is going to have to do more than check Wlad's chin, as Wlad has never lost getting checked once. Peter has to knock him down, and then keep knocking down until it is stopped. Wlad has proven that is the only way other than a stamina collapse to beat him and Peter has yet to prove he can do that to another fighter with a pulse other than Maskaev. Odds favor Wlad.