Sultan ibragimov was very good...

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

Any fans of Sultan 'Barney Rubble' Ibragimov? Fought his way to a unification fight with wlad (The first since holy v lewis) and got out of the sport with his health & wealth in tact. Looked about as tough as cream pie....Deceptively slick!

Ibragimov is an olympic silver medallist losing the gold on points to the great felix savon (The same savon that KO David Tua, Shannon Briggs, and Lamont Brewster!)

Iggy is one of only a handful of SOUTHPAW HW champions ever!

Very good fighter! Not flashy or anything but he fought smart....He was good enough to beat everyone not named Klitschko in my view.

Iggy boxed circles around shannon briggs and an ageing holyfield ! He also destroyed big lance whitaker knocking him down three times en route to a seventh round stoppage! (Whitaker had kayoed oleg maskaev in 2 rounds and was also the first man to defeat monte barrett!) The pre fight press press conference brawl was entertainment at it's finest....

Mike Tyson loved this guy. Tyson said he had simliar hand speed to himself, Tyson wanted to be in his corner for the Wlad fight but couldn't leave the state after legal issues.

Bernard hopkins said that no other heavyweight possesses the same speed and strength that ibragimov did!

[erics44]

ill be honest he passed me by

[TitoFan]

There's no doubting the Sultan's skills and potential.
Too bad he decided to shit on his pants when given the opportunity to make something of himself against Wlad.

[erics44]

wlad won that fight with size

both men were negative

everytime sultan stepped forward wlad stepped back

a man the size of wlad would normally be looking the KO a man a small as sultan

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

I don't think size had much to do with the outcome! Skill did! Whitaker was 6'7 and briggs 6'4! He boxed ring's around those two! Plus he's a southpaw (but then again wlad is a master at countering the southpaw style, see byrd and thompson!)

It was a case of Styles....that's all that fight was! Both fighters are know to be intelligent, cautious fighters! It was never gunna be a classic....

Klitschko's performance was reminscent of some of the performances of Ezzard Charles and Larry Holmes; dominant but unsatisfying in an aesthetic sense. The lack of aesthetic appeal should not convince the discerning boxing fan or student that the fight was anything other than a dominant performance in difficult, even ugly, circumstances by an exceptional fighter.

I thought Klitschko's jab and wait strategy was very smart and IMO he got two legitimate knockdowns too... .

David haye who is polar oposite to ibragimov put on a stinker too but was utterly dominated, wlads style just shuts down most others! We should not judge these men on there performances with wlad but judge them on there performances that got them there! See Iggy v briggs/holy, haye v ruiz/valuev, chambers v dimitrenko/peter etc...

[erics44]

i think it did

wlad was bigger and had all the physical advantages

if they had have been the same size the outcome may have been different and the fight would still have been shit

[DavilaJones]

Klitschko's performance was reminscent of some of the performances of Ezzard Charles and Larry Holmes; dominant but unsatisfying in an aesthetic sense. The lack of aesthetic appeal should not convince the discerning boxing fan or student that the fight was anything other than a dominant performance in difficult, even ugly, circumstances by an exceptional fighter.

I love you for this quote. It embodies everything I believe in the sweet science.