Wladimir Klitschko Displays Judo Skills

Generally these guys are fighters and have the ability to crossover. What makes or breaks their success is their approach. Wlad could have done it and even thrived in an era of Sylvia and Arlovski.

Mercer, Toney etc are examples of how not to approach a new fighting discipline.

 

Great find!

Wlad would have probably KILLED Tim Sylvia.

 

Its not really new that he respected mma and trained some just to keep in shape and for fun

 

Timmy isn't even in the same planet as Wlad when it comes to fighting.

 

HAHA at the armbar at the end of the throw. Wlad is cool as hell

 

Forget about Toney Mercer or even Shannon Briggs who also made a brief foray into the K-1. Those guys are fossils. But they're bread and butter is boxing. That said first and foremost they are fighters. Hence why they were willing to make the cross over into the K-1 or MMA. For that they still deserve credit.
That being said when i concur with your first point. They are fighters first. If you like fighting, broadly speaking you will enjoy most aspects of it. I know i sure as **** do. Contrary to the UFC and UFC fanboy mantra there's plenty of pro's who enjoy either or many disciplines as fans of said sport.

 

If Wlad had chosen MMA instead of the fame, fortune, and global popularity found from boxing, he has the athletic ability and fighting skills to obviously have been a champion.

 

Agree. I am a fight fan.

True, complete credit to Toney, Mercer, Briggs etc because to not approach something with any real discipline and still do it shows they are fighters.

 

To be fair they were also doing it for the money :yep

 

The KLitschko brothers were raised on Russian military bases and their dad had them in everything and Judo is like the national sport of Russia I have never met a Russian that didn't have some knowledge of the sport. Since shooting on a heavyweight is not normally done or attempted. and it is predominately stand up and greco I would thi nk that the brothers would be mma champs fairly easily if they wanted especially vlad he would jab and counter people to death.

 

are you ****ing serious?

 

It took a week but we have a bite!

patsch:roll:

 

If you are debating whether the billions of people on this Earth who you will never meet know who the handful of fighters mentioned who you will never meet are then you need to get out more.

Go, leave the house, take a notepad and pen. Travel the world, ask everyone, yes I mean every single person on the planet. Then you can call someone an idiot for an unfounded and unresearched opinion which contradicts your unfounded and unreasearched opinion

Other wise this is no better than a religious debate in the lounge. ''My God is better than yours'' and all that malarky...

If anyone is living in a cocoon of delusion it's the people in this thread debating who is more ****ing famous

It doesnt matter, end of story

 

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"The match drew a lot of international attention with around 500 mln viewers from 150 countries around the world watching the live telecast."

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"The biggest heavyweight fight since Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson in 2002 had a television audience of 500 million people in 150 countries."

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"The Haye fight was in over a 150 countries; the unification fight with Wladimir got over 16 million viewers in Germany, which was the highest rating they ever got for a Klitschko fight. It was a phenomenal rating; it’s higher than the German soccer team."


If you can find an mma match with a fraction of those numbers.. lol. Wlad also makes more in one fight(15 mill euros) than practically the whole ufc roster combined