Lamar Odom of the NBA World Champion Los Angeles Lakers visited WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko before a recent training session at the Pound4Pound Gym in Los Angeles.
It was a rare occurence that Klitschko was in the company of someone taller than he.
While the six-foot-ten Odom gears up for another NBA season, the six-foot-seven Klitschko is focused on Saturday, Sept. 26, when he will defend his WBC belt against unbeaten, No. 1-ranked Cristobal Arreola at Staples Center.
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