Can not compare any of those guys to Vlad, none of them has his offense of defense and Vlad can crack that right hand at least as well as McCall and Rahman, Vlad hit harder is more accurate and has a deadly left hook as well. Lennox may be more aggressive but if he gets hit like he did by Vitali he may not make it and I think Vlads Jab will make a difference. This is a 50-50 fight for me and I am talking about the Vlad of his last 20 fights against the best Lewis. In fact Lennox better be careful going in aggressively against Vlad, he is not a Razor Rudduck or a Grant or a Golota he is Dr. Steelhammer :good
Wladimir is just as skilled as Lennox and argubly have a harder right hand. Both are great fighters. The main issue for Wlad is against the best version of Lewis, he will face a styles nightmare. Lennox got a much better inside game, great upper cut and a variety of dirty rough house tactics that Wlad seldom use or seen. Wladimir will also lose his weight/size advantage against a fellow 6'5-6'6 245+ pound super heavy who's just as skilled and just as strong. Neither have great chins, but both have underrated chins. I actually don't think Lennox's strategy would have been to 'bomb' Wladimir out, he would have fought an extremely cautious fight and the two will jab each other to sleep before the explosion in the mid rounds when Lennox take it inside and eventually end it with an upper cut.
You chickened out of a bet you agreed to, said I don't exist to you anymore, and you randomly write a reply to me. :-(
Wlad has never beaten anyone worth two bob, his opposition has been dire and for the most part he's looked like **** doing it. Nice guy, but as entertaining as Jimmy Young having a bad night." Dr Shits himself when put under pressure:good
I asked you to quit rubbing it in my face , but you just couldn't do it. You brought it all on yourself. This is all your fault and none of mine.
Lewis. I wouldnt be shocked if it went like Lewis fight with M Grant. Yes I do think Wlad is leagues above Grant. I think Wlad is very very good and hard to beat, but Lewis I think would have KOd Wlad when he lands. I dont think Wlad throws with the same confidence since his KO loss to Saunders, yet think Wlad has come on since then overall. Early Lewis KO, possibly first round, but then if Wlad lands... I think Lewis lands first
I personally thought it was a crappy fight and a dismal performance by Wlad, but if you liked it, what can I say?
I can agree with that. He's the same size now as he was when he was fighting at Cruiser, he just decieded he didn't want to cut the weight anymore. I watch his fights for free. His last fight worth revisiting for entertainment purposes was against Brock. Brock did better than anybody, shame about the eye.
For the past year, Dino has made thread after thread stating Wlad is ducking Pulev, that Pulev will beat Wlad. I offered him an account bet that if Wlad agrees to fight Pulev by 2015, he has to leave. If not, I will leave. He refused. I humilated him in every one of his Pulev love threads, until everyone came down on him and he accepted the bet. But only if Wlad beats Pulev. I see him at it again this week with the Wlad trolling, so I taunted him once or twice about our bet. He said, he'll walk away from the bet if I taunt him again. He than searches my history, finds me mention his name to someone else in an unrelated thread, and says the bet is off. He got cold feet and welched, he loses.
The comparisons of Wlad to Grant or Golota or Ruddock are the essence of specious reasoning. I pick Lewis to win (as I would pick a prime Lewis in almost any heavy match-up) but it is not a stroll in the park for him.