Wlad's Excuses For His Ko Loss To Brewster

Why? Who never came back after defeat? Everybody comes back from defeat. He had no intention of rematching Brewster much like he had none for Sanders.
The landscape was so garbage Holyfield stuck around and got high profile fights till he was almost 50 years of age.


Wlad on the other hand had to up ship back to Germany where he fought under his own illegal rules for the next 10 years against absolute nothings.

 

There was a reason that everybody else, including his brother, thought he was finished. He froze completely against relatively average fighters. I can't remember anyone coming back from losing like he did against Purrity and Brewster. He wasn't even tagged that hard, he just gassed like a novice. And this was an Olympic gold medalist, in his late 20's with 44 pro fights behind him - there just shouldn't be any coming back from that. And just a year later he seemed to be going the same way against Peter but pulled himself together and never looked back.

Not a fan, but I give due where it's deserved.

 

Brewster took a pounding in the first match. Wlad landed a colossal right hand in round 4, it was the only time Brewster who had an excellent chin was ever floored. I don't know how he got up.

You have to give Brewster credit for being very determined. He came back and landed some hard body shots and hooks. Wlad's sudden collapse suggests something was not quite right with him that night, and I'll leave it at that.

In the re-match, Brewster was badly abused. IMO, he caught Wlad at the right time, before he had a chance to learn from Steward.

 

Thats all well and good , but there was a divisive decision to relocate to Germany where the house fighter has a history of being the beneficiary of corrupt German officiating.
Wlad had a whole team around him in place to ensure he got the 'W' . Method of victory did need not apply.

Wlad didn't change , he and his team changed the rules to ensure he never had fight his challengers like he did in America.
Its no coincidence he looked panic stricken and lost in his first fight back against Jennings the janitor.
Wlad was a cheater and i personally don't give cheaters any credit.

 

You forget to mention that Wlad was staggered by a jab in the second or third round. Buckled. From a jab.

Sanders is made out to be a heavy hitter and he was , but Brewsters power is severely underrated. He banged harder than Sanders for sure , he just wasn't as fast.
That power destroyed Wlad. He just could not handle it.

The rematch is irrelevant. A complete non-factor. Brewster had been diagnosed medically unfit to box.

Only one fight was prime vs prime and Wlad spread out on the canvas after 5 round is the only result that counts.

 

Okay then doctor, tell me one other fight that ended this way? Wlad looked physically ill at the ending, didn't he?

Whether it was from punches or something else, you or I can not say for sure.

I'll let a cut man comment on what too much vaseline can do to the body.

Your post here is pathetically predictable by the way. I suppose you just angry as always. No worries, I won't start a new thread on Johnson's obvious lies and the Willard fight being fixed or talking a " fix " after Ketchel's death. Or him quitting multiple times in fights, throwing low blows, or his laundry list of excuses which as several times longer than Wlad's

By anyone's standards, Wlad is a stand-up person. Far better than you can ever dream of becoming.

In the end Wlad lost this fight, but he avenged it in style. He did not avoid the best out there as champion and gas re-matches as champion unlike you know who.

 

What you say here doesn't change the simple fact that he believed in himself when none else did. His own brother told him to quit. Not to hold all his future fight in Germany, but to quit. He didn't, but instead went on to have one of the great championship reigns in HW history. That makes an impression on me.

I do agree he was overly protected by refs in Germany, though.

 

Up you your hate and tell us again how Rocky Maricnao lacked one punch power


Note for the others ( Not you ) you can educate yourselves. Wlad's BAC level that night was 230! Prove to me the medical experts were wrong.

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Was Brewster-Klitschko Corrupted?
By Scoop Malinowski

Was the Lamon Brewster-Wladimir Klitschko battle for the vacant WBO Heavyweight title last April corrupted? Was Klitschko actually poisoned by some kind of mysterious evil force? Was someone privy to some kind of inside information which mysteriously lowered the betting odds down from 11-1 to 7-2?

Perhaps we may never know the truth. But one thing is for certain - there were many very strange and suspicious occurences surrounding that fight last April in Las Vegas.

Here is a re-print of the letter Klitschko attorney Judd Burstein wrote to United States Attorney Daniel G. Bogden. And when you're done reading all the circumstantial evidence, ask yourself, Is it possible that there could have been a conspiracy to cheat Wladimir Klitschko?

I believe to any fair and open-minded individual, after reading the letter below, and if all of the facts Burstein has collected are true, the answer has to be a resounding Yes.


Dear Mr. Bogden:

I am an attorney representing Wladimir Klitschko, a professional boxer fighting as a heavyweight. I am writing to respectfully request that your office conduct an investigation into the highly suspicious events surrounding Mr. Klitschko’s April 10, 2004 Las Vegas bout against Lamon Brewster, and the equally suspicious frustration of Mr. Klitschko’s subsequent efforts to ascertain whether or not he had been illicitly drugged or poisoned prior to or during the bout with Mr. Brewster.

As explained below, we are not leveling accusations against anyone in particular, and only seek an investigation to learn the truth and, if appropriate, punish the guilty. As evidenced by this week’s guilty plea in your District by Robert Mittelman to charges that he fixed fights and then unsuccessfully sought to bribe both a federal judge in your District and an Assistant United States Attorney in your Office, it is regrettably all too possible that someone sought to illegally influence the outcome of the Klitschko/Brewster bout. We believe that the facts of record to date more than justify a full investigation by your Office.

THE EVENTS PRIOR TO THE KLITSCHKO/BREWSTER BOUT

Before turning to what occurred during the bout, we first turn to a number of events that preceded the bout - events which, when viewed in connection with the events that followed, give off a strong odor of corruption.

First, as reported by Dean Juipe in the April 19, 2004 Las Vegas Sun, the odds on the bout posted by both Mandalay Bay and Pinnacle, leading offshore sports books, plummeted from 11-1 in Mr. Klitschko’s favor to just 3.5-1 by fight time. As Mr. Juipe pointed out, this “could only happen if there was a huge influx of money wagered on [Mr. Brewster.]” The question, of course, is why? To be sure, odds change in the days and hours before a fight, but experience shows that it is virtually unheard of for them to change so dramatically in such a short period of time.

Your investigation will reveal that Mr. Brewster was understandably a heavy underdog and that nothing in the public domain gave any cause for such a drastic change in the betting line. On the other hand, if a drugging of Mr. Klitschko was planned in advance, that fact would easily explain why there was so much “late money” bet on Mr. Brewster.

In this regard, it should be noted that identifying unusual changes in the odds has been an effective weapon in ferreting out the fixing of sporting events. As reported on March 31, 2002 by Edward Epstein of the San Francisco Chronicle: “The [gaming] industry also claims that Nevada casinos have tipped off the FBI to a few college basketball point-shaving scandals over the past several years by looking for unusual betting patterns on games.” Further, a key ground for the general consensus that the March 1999 draw in the Lennox Lewis/Evander Holyfield bout was the product of corrupt judging, was the fact that the odds on that fight went from 11-5 in Lewis’s favor to “pick ‘em” by the time of the fight. Of course, the swift change in the odds on the Klitschko/Brewster fight were far more dramatic and therefore much more indicative of foul play.

 

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Second, there was a very suspicious incident concerning fight credentials. As you may know, certain credentials for a fight - such as the ones that give a person access to all areas of the arena on fight night - are highly prized and limited. For that reason and also, more importantly, because of security concerns, such credentials are released to an individual only if he or she is on a credentials list and he or she provides photo identification. Notwithstanding these procedures, when a member of the Klitschko team went to pick up his credential prior to the bout, he was told that it had already been picked up. When the team member asked for more information, it became clear that someone had picked up the credential by falsely claiming to be the team member. Given the requirement of photo identification, this error should not have been possible. Yet, it happened, thereby creating a situation where an unidentified person secured an all-access pass through fraud, thus providing himself unfettered access to the arena. While this scenario may seem outlandish, is it any more outlandish than Mr. Mittleman offering a judge and prosecutor in this District $15,000 to fix a case? Is it more outlandish that, in 1919, Arnold Rothstein bribed eight members of the Chicago White Sox so that they would throw the World Series?

In sum, before the Klitschko/Brewster bout even began, there were strong indications - in the form of extreme volatility in the betting line and fraud in the securing of an all-access credential - that some mischief was afoot. Those indications ripened with what transpired next.

THE KLITSCHKO/BREWSTER BOUT

As both Mr. Klitschko and his entire team, including Hall of Fame trainer Emmanuel Steward, will attest, Mr. Klitschko was in extraordinary physical condition for the bout. Indeed, according to Mr. Klitschko, he had never trained so well or come into a bout so well-conditioned. Significantly, he had never shown himself to be a fighter who lacked conditioning or stamina. Thus, what happened on April 10 is wholly inconsistent with Mr. Klitschko’s career. To be sure, he has been knocked out before, but never under circumstances such as those that prevailed on April 10. One need only review the tape of the bout in order to have serious concerns as to whether he was drugged or poisoned - especially in light of the events both before and after the bout.

Inexplicably, beginning in or about the second round, and prior to having been hit with any significant punches, Mr. Klitschko exhibited and experienced a rapid loss of energy, coherence and equilibrium. This fact was noted and is corroborated by the personal observations of his corner-men, who uniformly characterized his condition as something they had not seen previously in their long careers. They noted that he appeared to collapse during the bout, not from the effects of any blows, but rather from some other unknown cause. They also pointed out that Mr. Klitschko lacked the recuperative powers he had shown in all of his past fights, which he should have had in light of training and conditioning. These observations are consistent with publicly reported statements of Referee Robert Byrd, a very experienced official, who, in April 11, 2004's USA Today, stated: “I tried to get a response out of him but there was none. I've never stopped a fight like that." Similarly, in Mr. Juipe’s April 19, 2004 Las Vegas Sun article, an employee of the Palms Casino explained why there was no betting line available on the then-upcoming April 24, 2004 bout between Vitali Klitschko and Corrie Sanders: “It’s because the other Klitschko [Wladimir] looked like he was poisoned or something in the fight with Brewster.” (Emphasis supplied)

Further evidencing foul play is the fact that Mr. Klitschko's condition after the April 10 fight cannot be reconciled with the recuperative powers demonstrated after his defeat by Corrie Sanders in March 2003. Mr. Klitschko also lost the Sanders bout by knockout. A review of that fight shows that Mr. Klitschko was knocked out fair and square by Mr. Sanders’s very visible and powerful blows. Significantly, if one reviews the tapes of both the Sanders and the Brewster fights, it is clear that Mr. Klitschko was hit much harder by Mr. Sanders than by Mr. Brewster. Within the boxing community Mr. Sanders is widely considered one the hardest punchers, far more dangerous than Mr. Brewster. Yet, within minutes of being knocked out by Mr. Sanders, Mr. Klitschko participated in post-fight interviews, in which he coherently communicated in several different languages. In contrast, following the stoppage in Las Vegas on April 10, observers reported that, despite being conscious, Mr. Klitschko's pupils appeared dilated, he was unable to communicate and he was unable to lift his head to respond to inquiries made by the attending physicians. This condition lasted for some time. Mr. Klitschko has also confirmed that his head was completely clear after the Brewster fight was stopped; yet he could not speak or move his body with ease

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In sum, the events that transpired at the actual bout also raise serious concerns about whether Mr. Klitschko’s performance was impeded by some hidden substance.

 

Yes, and it goes to show, sometimes it's the sore loser excuse-makers who turn into the greater fighters.
Being gracious in defeat is a nice character trait but it isn't at all necessary to achieve success.

 

I agree with this.

Klitschko unloaded a B52's worth of bombs on Brewster trying to get him outta there and frankly I think he just gassed himself out.