Vitali Klitschko...power overrated?

If I were him, I wouldn't bother changing. What he does is so effective as it is. Unless someone were to actually pose him a problem, in which case, okay. But if not, just keep grinding them down, slow and steady with hard arm punches.

 

Interesting

 

Probably Kirk Johnson fight and Kirk had never been stopped. That was Vitali with genuine 1 punch KO power.

Ya Tyson layed into Danny and Danny didn't go down. Funny enough though i remember reading an interview where Williams said Konstantine Airich was the hardest he'd ever been hit.

 

Christ....it's a question of styles. Some Turkish nobody laid Williams out quicker than VITLAY did, does he hit harder than Tyson too? Tyson was old when he fought Williams, and disinterested too. Prime Tyson is a million times the puncher VITLAY ever has been because he's actually beaten live opponents by brutal KO.

List the opponents that VITLAY has KO'd...the significant ones I mean. I think you'll find there aren't many.

VITLAY has decent power yes, but ATG power on the level of Tyson, Liston, Shaevers, Foreman etc...**** no.

 

Agree. But Vitali's style is definitely different from those. From his Kickboxing career he has adopted a leaning back stance making it harder to throw with all of his body weight. Although when he connects with the overhand right it's usually goodnight.

 

@ your avatar. I remember that.

 

Agreed.

He has heavy enough hands and a good enough workrate where he can not load up on shots, even throw lots of arm shots, and do enough damage gradually.

 

Thanks. **** was funny as hell. Johnson was just ecstatic to have gone the distance. Which he shouldn't have been .And he was trying to taunt Vitali. Then Vitali was like you stupid **** I beat you every round. Look up at my hand, and then he just barely missed landing. About the only fight in him that Johnson had was at the end when Wladimir was separating them. I think I could have run around the ring for 12 rounds. maybe not; but he is or was supposed to be a professional boxer.

 

king vitali is a very very smart boxer and fighter!

 

long life king vitali!

 

There is no way Ring magazine called him the hardest hitting heavyweight ever, that simply isnt true.

What they likely listed was him holding the record as having the highest heavyweight KO percentage which is between him and Foreman depending on if you take all fights or only fights won.

Regardless, no one rates his power high as far as one punch, it is more consistent. All his opponents state he has consistent power through out the fight and its not any one punch that hurts you, its all of them

 

His power is nowhere as good as his KO percentage could suggest. As already mentioned, a lot of his stoppages are due to accumulation, with opponents taking hundreds of shots but still standing (Arreola, Peter). I can't imagine anyone surviving this amount of punishment from punchers like Shavers or Foreman.

When comparing his KO ratio to guys like Holyfield, Tyson or some old-timers, one have to also keep in mind Vitali emerged as top fighter quite lately, and he fought mostly bums for quite a time (only Foreman comes close to that). Also the criteria to get a fight stopped changed with time in favour of todays fighters (for example, Ross Purrity would be probably allowed to continue something like 30 years ago - it was nowhere as bad as Holmes-Cobb).

 

Shavers or Foreman would never be able to deliver punishment the way Vitali does as they usually gassed by 6th round. For his style Vitali hits pretty hard.

 

He's had his share of early KO's but mostly they are accumulation late stoppages

in his comeback he has lost a lot of power

Wlad has the one punch power