Wladimir Klitschko's handshake obsession...

fights are won in the gym and through natural talent, not at the press conference

 

It's weird and uncomfortable watching him go on about it. I do like Wlad though.

 

I've never known a man to love shaking hands so much.

In truth it's part of his passive-aggressive approach to mind-games, and it normally works.

 

So that means if Haye knocks out Wlad he didn't knock out a 100% prime and ready version of Wlad but a weak, mentally derailed one?

 

It is a bit cringe when he does the "Don't you want to shake the magic hand, David?" thing. But I found it pretty funny, in a weird way, when he listed all the people that have shaken his hand. The number 50 on his hand was pretty good, though. It would be even better if he gets that knockout number 50. War Wlad!

 

I think when wlad first did the hand shake thing everyone was like wow Haye is a ***** he won't shake wlad's hand, how unsportsman like. So he has thought ahhh that got me good press and it must annoy Haye so he kept doing it, now he has over done it so he actually looks like a bit of a dick!

This now looks like Haye has got to wlad but I don't think it has affected wlad, I just think wlad thinks that doing it would make Haye look silly... It did a little at first but now wlad looks silly. All verbal sparring.

 

He want to tell him "haha you have just shake the hand that i wank with" :yep

 

talk about not reading things right...

This is humour and it's obviously gone right over some of your heads

 

Ukranian humour that obviously doesn't translate

 

more like dry humour and you guys don't get it at all.

 

I like what he said, he's a pretty funny guy - as is Haye

 

In a sense it is humour (not funny though) but it started out because Haye wouldn't shake his hand and Haye got bad press for this. Wlad has now over done it and it isn't as funny as he thinks it is.

 

A handshake has a certain social connotation, and generally it's a power play, where one guy wants to grip the other harder.

Wlad has enormous hands. He'd win in a grip contest. Haye knows this, so he does not want to give Wlad that confidence boost. Wlad also knows this and wants to show his size/strength to get into Haye's mind. It annoys him that Haye won't let him.