Just watched the Bergeron fight and one thing stuck out for me. Exactly like in the Chagaev fight, Valuev looked like a sleepwalking zombie for most of the fight, until the last few rounds where he really came alive. In both the fights in teh last few rounds he looked impressive, bossing the opponent with his sheer size, showing pretty good footwork and a good workrate/decent combinations. So why can not he do that for the whole of the fight? For me it seems like he lacks the aggression required to be a boxer, just far too tame. His skills are not great, but he has enough, that if he fought with fire and aggression he would be extremely hard to beat for anyone.
i cant remember that old saying, but basically the bigger you are, the more gentle. or something like that. that's why it's rare to get aggressive big fighters. not just the atheletic requirement. but that burning aggression smaller fighters have. so fighters like vitali, wladimir, lewis. they all want to win so badly. valuev is a classic example of a gentle giant. look at the lower weight divisons like pacman etc. they all fight like demons. some reckon it's genetic from evolution. smaller people had to fight harder than their bigger foes back in the cavemen days. after all it's not the the size of a dog in the fight. but the size of the fight in the dog, that matters.
I was wondering the same thing. It's like he wakes up in the championship rounds after being seemingly bored for the first 10. The funniest part about the 12th round was when he started dancing like Muhammad Ali and throwing the bolo punch like SRL. It almost made the horrible fight worth watching.
