As to Vitali's KO power, which most seem to agree has not been as apparently in his comeback fights, since his surgeries/ back trouble................... But given that our own inside operative, Chef, said right after the Briggs fight, that Vitali was a bit disgusted as to why he couldn't KO Briggs, and wanted to know why Briggs didn't go down, and was told it was due to his armpunching style..........Which he committed to working on for his next fight................This Solis fight............................So I assume Vitali is apparently now working on putting his body behind his shots, once again, ir order to close the show, and go home early. :good Will he take Solis out, with his recent efforts to stop the arm punching, and get his KO power/form back? Does Solis have that good of a punch tolerance, to where he can withstand the newly motived KO punching from big VK? Can a fighter Vital's age change his style of punching enough to increase his KO power? Try as he may, the arm punching style may be something he can't refrain from, once the fight starts.........much like Golota's famous shots to the nuts.........:blood This content is protected
I think vitali changed, he used to break guys down and punish them bad. Now it seems his power has ehavily decreased. He is fighting on ring iq and volume. Which is even worse because now he is frustrated he cant knock you out so he tries hard to ko you and therefore end up sadistically beating you around the ring. Solis will suffer the same faith as briggs.
In reality Doctor VK's last win over Briggs was another KO victory for him. The ref's failure to stop it was a crime. Likewise Briggs' corner for not throwing in the towel. Briggs is lucky to be alive. As for Solis, he and his team are behaving like low life bums. This fight is an absurd mismatch besides. I think the only reason the Cuban fat slob didn't collapse in exhaustion in his last fight was thanks to the ref's timely intervention. I'll be very surprised if Dr VK doesn't put him on his fat ass by round 6.
did you see the pic(I thought it was on fightnews frontpage, guess they changed it or i´m loosing my mind) of shannon at the hospital after the fight?? His face was an utter mess. If solis is aggressive he'll get KO'd, if he boxes in a turtle shell and only has the goal to survive like kevin johnson, I gues he can loose via points.
True, plus Briggs was fat, old & shot against Vitali. Lennox brutally RUINED Peak Briggs in '98, both physically & mentally. :deal Vitali does get a wide UD or RTD over Solis though, who will almost surely turn up disgustingly obese.
The reason Vitali has been virtually unhittable since his return is that he doesn't commit as much to his punches. He leans back, avoids his opponent's shots, and then counters, again and again and again. He doesn't have to KO them, because he still beats them within an inch of their life with arm punches- unless they run like little girls (Kevin Johnson). He should keep doing what he's been doing. That's why he's an unbeatable champ at almost 40.
Great point. I think the arm punching obviously costs Vitali the dramatic KO wins that fans love to see, bit it also affords him a very elusive style of in and out. Without getting hit by any countershots, his in and out style of delivering his heavy handed arm punches makes him very hard to hit. It'll be interesting to see if he really has reworked his style of punching in hopes of getting his knockout power back, and if so, what the full body punching has costs his defense..
You make it sound like if Vitali doesn't KO a guy it's a bad performance. Perhaps that's because we've become accustomed to him doing so in a vast majority of his fights. If you asked me I'd rather be blasted out early rather then brutally battered and injured a whole 12 rds. you didn't mention that Vitali is old as well. This has a Vitali win by KO written all over it even if that means the corner stops it.