---- Most of us belief that Wlad Klitschko's style dramatically changed around 2003-2006. He was a very agressive/athletic fighter and became a more defensive, cautious, robotic and precise fighter. This is usually considered his prime. However, since 2006 I have seen two kinds of Wladimir Klitschko. You have the defensive and boring Wlad, the one that fights chess matches. He jabs a lot, is barely hit, and doesn't end fights quickly. The perfect examples are the fights against Ibragimov, Haye, etc. There is another recent Wlad Klitschko who is much more agressive. This one has usally seen his opponent in danger. Then, he hunts him down, punishes him of the corner, around the whole ring. Of course he is cautious, but you can see this Wlad trusts much more on his power and skill. For example, you can watch him in the end of the fights against Byrd, Chambers, Thompson II. He just pummels his opponents. I think the latter version of Wlad Klitschko (semi-agressive, but also defensive at the same time) can be competitive against any heavyweight in history.
Any versin of Wlad can be competitive vs any HW. I mean both versions you mentioned. Wlad is a lot more aggressive as of late. he was only cautious against Haye, vs Peter II, Mormeck, Thompson he was pretty aggressive.
Any HW? That's a stretch. He's more comfortable and aggressive against fighters that pose zero threat. Fighters that are either pushing 40 or fighters that can't crack an egg, or both. Wlad was not semi-aggressive against Chambers. Steward was screaming at Wlad to throw more punches. Since there is no version of this Wlad against an actual force of an opponent. He would never actual take the opportunity to fight this way against any HW. This version is an imaginary idea against actual legitimate past HW greats which is why you can't schizo split a separate entity of Wlad that doesn't exist.
Wlad is always more aggressive in rematches, well, maybe not Brewster II, where he threw too much for his own good he goes defensive with the jab only when he has someone who poses a threat in front of him (Haye, Peter), and yes, he'd be competitive in any HW era, he might of even dominated the weak era of the 80's like he did with today's HW's
The latter version of Wlad comes up when his opponent is horrible overmatched like Mormeck and ancient Thompson. **** discovery.
WRONG.!!! wlad is the Hw version of khan, by this i mean that both have all the physical tools to do well, but mentally they dont have what it takes. everytime these 2 guys have seen adversity, they have looked close to awful.
Im pretty sure Wlad is doing quite well. reigning HW champ, hasnt lost in 8 years, havent been KD in 7 years. Im pretty sure Khan would love to be in his shoes. :smoke
I'm pretty sure Khan would also like to fight at home against opponents who are either old and completely washed up or outweighed by 30lbs and giving up large amounts in height and reach - or sometimes both. Instead he's fighting guys his own size in far more stacked divisions, away from home. I'm pretty sure that if Khan was fought every fight at home against featherweights then he'd be pretty dominant too :roll:
So, now Wlad is winning only because of size or because he's fighting old fighters? Nice Before he fought Haye, everybody was clamoring for the fight, a lot of people predicting the he would lose. He beats him, oh its because he's a lot bigger. Also, this fighting at home ****, take it somewhere else. He fought in over 10 countries or so. Look up that thread about him fighting only in Germany. Can educate you on this topic.
:yep I'm mainly just playing . . . Although I do think it's daft to ignore the advantage that size provides Wlad in some fights, as well as comparing Khan's level of competition with Wlad's recent.
Uh, most of Khan's fights have been against people giving up comparatively large amounts of height and reach. The only fighter he's fought who was taller than himself was Breidis Prescott.
:good Watch Wlad fights before 1999, this is the Wlad of today (better version) but Wlad was change as a fighter from 1999-2003.