Wladimir Klitschko vs. Marius Wach

[therealremi]

Not that I have anything against Wach, he is a nice guy, but IMHO he should have fought someone from top 20 before getting a title fight.
Still, something tells me he will be more of a challange than Mormeck.

[El Kabong]

I had not seen where this fight has been signed. Wach is ranked #4 by the WBC perhaps Wlad is taking the fight so he can immediately go after Vitali's WBC belt when Vitali retires...if it is true that he's taking the fight. Wach is big, bigger than Wlad....I wouldn't mind this fight happening, I think Wlad wins by early/mid round KO, perhaps round 4 or so

[TigerFan]

Decent fight. Wach is undefeated and is a little bit bigger than Wladimir.

Should result in a highlight reel knockout...probably in 4-5 rounds.

[GaydarbekStraight]

Not that I have anything against Wach, he is a nice guy, but IMHO he should have fought someone from top 20 before getting a title fight.
Still, something tells me he will be more of a challange than Mormeck.

Wach does not deserve a shot at Klitschko, and is still too inexperienced for it.
Are you sure they are going to fight?
Surely he is still a worthier challenger than Mormeck was, even if Mormeck's resume was richer.
Wach should fight a few big men his own level before challenging Klitschko.
It is hard for me to say that Fury or Price are his own level, so it's probably like his handlers know that and just try to cash out big on him.
Today a man can just fight a Klitschko and call it a career, he isn't making that kind of money by doing a Povetkin for years.

[El Kabong]

Wach is decent-ish probably on par with Dimitrenko but has slower hands and a slightly harder punch. He's #4 in the WBC rankings so I think if nothing else it's a move to get Wladimir rated higher by the WBC so he can unify quickly.

The fight I really want to see is Wladimir vs Arreola, because I know Arreola will come to fight....Wlad will still win handily but Arreola will have a go.

[TigerFan]

Wach is the best out of those available and willing to fight. Everybody else is either tied up in other fights or coming off injuries. Plus he makes the most sense economically with the Polish TV money.

Adamek is fighting Walker
Pulev is fighting Ustinov
Povetkin is fighting Rahman
Solis is being sued by Don King
Helenius is coming off a career threatening shoulder injury
Mitchell not ready
Arreola's camp is waiting on Vitali to retire so he can fight for a "vacant" WBC belt
Chagaev been there done that
Boytsov is coming off multiple hand operations...still treading water
Stiverne is ranked very high by the WBC and will likely face Arreola sometime soon
Fury & Price not ready this year

Can anybody honestly pick a better fight for Wladimir?

[El Kabong]

I think Wlad vs Arreola will be THE unification bout and that's cool with me. I am itching to see Wach catch a beat down because he's a big dude and he's been feasting on smaller, older heavyweights.

TALE OF THE TAPE
Height: Wlad 6'6; Wach 6'7 & 1/2
Weight:(from last bouts) Wlad 249 ; Wach 247
Reach: Wlad 81"; Wach 82"
Record Wlad 58 (51 KO)-3; Wach 27(15 KO)-0

Wlad is vastly more experienced (of course) and has a better KO%. Wach's record is littered with the names of journeymen fighters. Tye Fields and Julius Long are amongst his most noteable wins, not very tough I must say.

[shza]

Seeing that Wach is at least huge makes me slightly happier about this fight. If Wlad's just going to be KO'ing some undeserving European I've never heard of, nice to at least have the spectacle of a 6'8" guy hitting the canvas.

[El Kabong]

Seeing that Wach is at least huge makes me slightly happier about this fight. If Wlad's just going to be KO'ing some undeserving European I've never heard of, nice to at least have the spectacle of a 6'8" guy hitting the canvas.

Also the guy is a bit of a bully, 32 years old and Wach has yet to even ATTEMPT to test himself. I would kind of prefer Wach get smashed by another fighter, but Wlad does love to take away a 0.

[palmerq]

Wach is the best out of those available and willing to fight. Everybody else is either tied up in other fights or coming off injuries. Plus he makes the most sense economically with the Polish TV money.

Adamek is fighting Walker
Pulev is fighting Ustinov
Povetkin is fighting Rahman
Solis is being sued by Don King
Helenius is coming off a career threatening shoulder injury
Mitchell not ready
Arreola's camp is waiting on Vitali to retire so he can fight for a "vacant" WBC belt
Chagaev been there done that
Boytsov is coming off multiple hand operations...still treading water
Stiverne is ranked very high by the WBC and will likely face Arreola sometime soon
Fury & Price not ready this year

Can anybody honestly pick a better fight for Wladimir?

yes you are right, there is not much at all for wladimir just now so he might aswell just take the easy polish money.. Although I know nothing about this stiverne fellow but from what I have heard I guess the plan is for him or arreola to get the wbc belt once vitali retires and then make a big fight in america v wlad, that might work out pretty good for wladimir chance to win all the belts fighting a north american champion.. I don't see the point in him fighting povetkin sure he is undefeated and I think not bad and has some kind of belt but the way he fights wladimir would eat him alive and I do not think it would be a contest at all.. Beating this Wach fellow even with his poor resume is as much of an achievement as beating povetkin for a fellow like wladimir...

strangely enough I know think the only competitive fight for the klitschkos is david haye and we saw how that went the first time...

[Mars_ax]

Not that I have anything against Wach, he is a nice guy, but IMHO he should have fought someone from top 20 before getting a title fight.
Still, something tells me he will be more of a challange than Mormeck.

Until I just looked him up, I didn't have a clue who Mariuz Wach was, if it does happen this might actually be an entertaining fight. As good as anyone else who's available for Wlad to fight right now, let it happen.

[El Kabong]

yes you are right, there is not much at all for wladimir just now so he might aswell just take the easy polish money.. Although I know nothing about this stiverne fellow but from what I have heard I guess the plan is for him or arreola to get the wbc belt once vitali retires and then make a big fight in america v wlad, that might work out pretty good for wladimir chance to win all the belts fighting a north american champion.. I don't see the point in him fighting povetkin sure he is undefeated and I think not bad and has some kind of belt but the way he fights wladimir would eat him alive and I do not think it would be a contest at all.. Beating this Wach fellow even with his poor resume is as much of an achievement as beating povetkin for a fellow like wladimir...

strangely enough I know think the only competitive fight for the klitschkos is david haye and we saw how that went the first time...

Stiverne is big power and that's about it, Ray Austin was outboxing him when Bermane finally caught him. I like the big power guys, but unless they have that Joe Frazier type of drive & stamina or the Joe Louis stalking ability they can be in some very boring fight. Headmovement, footspeed, cutting the ring off and stalking an opponent down, and setting up the power punches is what you need to do when you rely so much on power. That said Arreola vs Stiverne will be a very nice battle (I hope).

Povetkin used to be somebody but he's an afterthought now, he's skilled, but his career had so much promise when he was younger and it's sad that he's fighting lesser opponents now than he fought in 2007.

It's a shame Odlanier Solis & Povetkin have been so poor, add in Audley and the heavyweight/super heavyweight division has had lots of shit Gold Medalists (bar Wlad of course)

[rjj tszyu]

Wach is decent-ish probably on par with Dimitrenko but has slower hands and a slightly harder punch. He's #4 in the WBC rankings so I think if nothing else it's a move to get Wladimir rated higher by the WBC so he can unify quickly.

The fight I really want to see is Wladimir vs Arreola, because I know Arreola will come to fight....Wlad will still win handily but Arreola will have a go.

I thought the WBC refused to rank any of the other belt holders?

[GaydarbekStraight]

Wach is decent-ish probably on par with Dimitrenko but has slower hands and a slightly harder punch. He's #4 in the WBC rankings so I think if nothing else it's a move to get Wladimir rated higher by the WBC so he can unify quickly.

The fight I really want to see is Wladimir vs Arreola, because I know Arreola will come to fight....Wlad will still win handily but Arreola will have a go.

I thought the WBC refused to rank any of the other belt holders?

I thought the WBC abolished unifications.
What you say here is even worse than what I thought.

[rjj tszyu]

Wach is decent-ish probably on par with Dimitrenko but has slower hands and a slightly harder punch. He's #4 in the WBC rankings so I think if nothing else it's a move to get Wladimir rated higher by the WBC so he can unify quickly.

The fight I really want to see is Wladimir vs Arreola, because I know Arreola will come to fight....Wlad will still win handily but Arreola will have a go.

I thought the WBC refused to rank any of the other belt holders?

I thought the WBC abolished unifications.
What you say here is even worse than what I thought.

Actually all of the bodies refuse to rank any of the others champions. Not just the WBC.

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