That **** was horribly boring last night. Yeah he won by wide decision but it sucked. He waited until like the 5th round before he even through a single right hand. WTF was up with him swatting down Iggy's right jab? Most of the time little Iggy was out of range. **** his right jab, slip that **** and counter with a lead right. I dont expect Wlad to turn into Hopkins for one night but come on he needed to use the right from round 1.
It wasn't only this fight where the right hand was withheld til later. Same gameplan against Castillo, and Austin, too. In fact, the right hand never made its appearance, at all agianst Austin, as the job was done before it was needed. As he said to Kellerman after the fight, the reason he was hesitant to throw right hands early, or too much, was cause if he missed, he'd then be off balance and easily countered, and possibley KDed. I think we all thought that stamina was his main thing he was trying to correct when he got with Steward, but it looks as if he is also very aware of, and puts effort into not being caught after throwing a missed right hand.
