Wladimir Klitschko retires from boxing.

RIP Champ.

 

He went out on his shield In a great fight. You are a very biased, classless and deluded individual. The Klitschkos made a complete fool out of you for years.

 

Isolating his boxing career I would say HOF or maybe ATG and he deserves respect for that. But I never liked him as a guy. Seems to have a dodgy military background and a bit of a "too nice" persona about him. I always have a nagging speculation that he got his dream of being heavyweight as a reward for shady special forces work.

 

When did i say it wasn't a great fight? Putting words in my mouth again?

Unfortunately Wlad was never a class act in the ring where it actually mattered.

 

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Good for Wlad. Great ATG level career, great human being, great ambassador for our sport. History will judge him kindly, the rose-colored glasses will start to be used in a couple years when people realize boxers of Wlad's pedigree only come along once every 20-25 years.

 

Home soil? What? It was at wembley.

 

Pulev next for AJ? i hope not complete mismatch for sure

 

A bit annoyed he's retiring on a loss when it was so close to being a win but I guess he knows best. Thanks for being such a gent and ambassador for the sport. Know way will anyone else repeat his reign anytime soon.

 

In a way Joshua has already surpassed his reign. Only took AJ 3 years and 17 fights to beat the #1 HW in the world.

It took Wlad TEN years before he fought the #1 ranked HW and that was Chris Byrd who was a non factor during the Lewis era

You can't change the fact that his era was extremely weak.

 

get off this thread you absolute maggot.

 

Something to remember him by.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/04/29/23/3FC1447500000578-4459000-image-a-61_1493503730554.jpg

 

i'm glad he had made this decision. He has so much he can do beyond boxing and is best to leave with his health intact. I don't think he would have beaten AJ in the rematch as AJ will keep improving and will have learnt so much from the last fight. I would have quite like to see Wlad smack Wilder about but no way that fight was ever going to happen.

What a career and what a gentleman. A great ambassador for the sport and hope he stays in boxing in some way.

 

Wait. You're saying at 41 Klitschko was the #1 ranked heavyweight in the world? Or are you talking about someone else?

 

Im not saying it , thats what he was.. Don't ask stupid questions.