Whyte looked very impressive.

I thought he looked terrible really flat like he had made weight or something, worth mentioning that I watched it with Russian commentary. I think all the rounds were pretty close but I thought povetkins movement and feints were the difference.
I don’t know how anyone can say it was a good performance from whyte before the ko

 

Nah, he was 3 rounds down at the time he was kayoed.

It could be difficult to tell due to the five round blowjob Eddie's commentary team were busy giving him.

 

Guys, stop saying Povetkin is 41. He is only forty.

 

I thought he was 43

 

He did look good prior to the KO, he was in shape, his jab was finding Povetkin regularly, he was throwing more and when Povetkin did land Whyte came back with his own shots. I thought the first round was close, he clearly won the 2nd as he landed a couple of good right hands, 3rd was closer but still thought Whyte won it and of course Whyte dominated the 4th round. Things were going his way and he looked like he was on top.

But Whyte has never been the prettiest fighter to watch as he makes mistakes, Povetkin touched him with a jab, eliciting a right hand lead from Whyte which opened him up, Povetkin steps to his left meaning he has a squared up Whyte in front of him now and boom fights over. Some will say it was a lucky punch but that sequence is a typical move from Povetkin, we saw him use it numerous times vs Joshua.

 

He looked good, but he had the worst version of Povetkin I’ve ever seen in the first 4 rounds, probably even worse than the one against Hunter. His handspeed was like half of what it used to be, his balance was worse than It ever was and he was telegraphing his punches.

Even with all that, he managed to show his vastly superior technique and ring IQ and put Whyte to sleep, the single most overrated fighter on ESB in last couple of years. Now at the tail end of his career, he deserves to do whatever he wants with that interim belt. Be it just waiting for his shot, or have an easy homecoming bout.

What Whyte deserves to do however is to go back to drawing board, as any contender coming back from a devastating loss like this would.

 

I wouldnt say very Impressive but he was winning the fight, fist couple of decent shots he hit Povetkin with he put him down. Povetkin showing his punch resistance had gone. He was doing enough and would have gone on to win in points or stoppage.

Dillian never looks that great he trades and gets caught in all his fights, he like to brawl, take punches and give them back.

Povetkin is just a stylistic nightmare for him to do that with because he punches so clean and technically perfect, that shot was textbook technique that's why he knocked him clean out with it.

He was doing enough, should have won the fight but one punch changed that.

It is what it is, ortiz looked great against wilder but you always knew he would get caught because he was wide open for the shot.

Unfortunately for whyte, he's picked the wrong guy, it's his own stupid fault for taking a fight he didn't need to take against a guy that's all wrong for him. Should have took an easier route and waited for his title shot.

It's an error of judgement that's similar to AJ made against ruiz, maybe dillian has to go into a rematch the same way and try to steal a points win because trading with Povetkin is suicide.

 

Whyte is a sloppy fighter, is not too tall and lacks Pugilistic pedigree, this is an ideal opponent for the 40 year old Povetkin.

 

Wouldn't lump all the English in together 99% of us hate all the match room home fighter cocksuckery

 

Big mistake dropping Mark Tibbs
A big mistake !

 

Either than or wearing that Maximum Violence vest he wore during the ring walk drained him lol.

 

Povetkin looked absolutely awful.

Whyte looked his usual lumbering self.

 

Sloppy is a good way to describe him, but also scrappy and lucky in his career up until now.
Ever since the first Chisora fight, he had quite a number of eye of the needle type fights. He should have lost Chisora 1, got extremely lucky vs Parker, was on his way to losing Chisora 2 until the highlight reel KO, was caught juicing (again) before the Rivas fight, got dropped and didn't look that great in there or in the Mariuz 'washed-up' Wach fight, and now he got sparked for the 2nd time in his career.

 

I fought Whyte was controlled and on top of the fight. for both fighters being locked in the bubble all week with all the people around, fighting at past 11 pm wont have been easy.

But Whyte was in control and on top of a povetkin without looking amazing, I would agree povetkin looked all his years for much of the fight, his feet were off balance and he was struggling to get clean punches off, and was eating jabs. the knockdown was coming for me for whyte and I honestly felt he povetkin was a a minute from going in round five.

But povetkin came out hurt and gave it one last go and set up and caught whyte with a superb shot from the memory bank.

I see whyte stopping him early in the rematch.

 

Yeah I thought Whyte looked really good. In very good shape. Looked relaxed and very confident.

Hard to say who “won” the opening rounds. But Whyte was dominating and actually hurting Povetkin each round.

Looked like Whyte was about to secure a very impressive win when a man on his last 40 year old legs showed that he can still throw some uppercut.

That’s HW boxing for ya. Whyte will bounce back and easily win the rematch.