What was up with all the arm slapping from Wladimir?

no, often it was his forearm!

 

If he would have done something with all those slaps, then we wouldn't have anything to talk about....

 

he'd never try that against a right handed fighter,he'd be eating rights hand shots all night

 

It seems as much a sign of disrespect as anything tactical. As though he was dissmissing Sultan's jab as a mere inconveinience which it unfortunately was.

What a poor excuse for a heavyweight unification fight!

 

Tell that to Calzaghe

 

I bet it wore Ibragimov's arm out... so it worked.

 

This was a **** fight. The best thing about that night was the replay of Pavlik v Taylor. Wlad was freaking playing patty-cake with him all night. He could have taken him out if he would have thrown at least one right hand. I hate the HW division.

 

Yea, he was doing the Chris Byrd thing.

 

how would a golota vs. wlad fight go??

 

Flatlander, you misunderstood what the rule means.

wladimir was knocking sultans lead hand down because of his height advantage the natural way for him to push sultans guard away is down, rather than more traditionally to the side.

the rule states you cannot strike an opponent with the palm of your hand. in other words you cannot hit them in the head or body with an open palm.

wladimir wasn't attacking sultan with an open palm. he was simply doing an extremely aggressive deflection move against sultans lead jabbing hand. that's all.

if wladimir tried to punch sultan in the head or body with the inside of his glove then yes, it's illegal.

EDIT: sultan's hand, and right down his forearm is considered his guard. not a bodyshot (ribs, solar plexus, lower stomach, chest etc.)

 

Yeah, that tactic is really old, in the Shufford fight he used it to pull Shufford's hands down right before a straight right that put Shufford down.

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