Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
I think Calvin Brock would be a good solid fight for Sam Peter in his first title defense. Sam is going to have to learn how to beat a boxer...if he gets more crafty then he'll pose more of a threat but you know what he's thinking all the time when he's fighting "must land haymaker, must land haymaker"


Wladimir Klitschko needs to start jumping on opponents, it's taken him longer to learn than it took Lennox Lewis to learn but he's going to get there and he's going to be even better at KO-ing fighters earlier.

Wlad used to give up his height it hurt him vs Corrie Sanders where Wlad was fighting in a near crouch and it obviously made Corrie's job easier.

I think Wlad has gotten away from clinching too much and I think he's going to use his jab to keep the distance instead of clinching to get out of range. He's going to use the jab as a defensive weapon as well as an offensive one. The left hook of Wlad is what really wobbled Sam Peter and after watching the McCline and Maskaev fights I think hooking off the jab will put an end to any offense Sam Peter can muster.

I think the rematch will be more exciting and there will be a KO in the end.
I think the result will be the same but no ko. Brock would be a good test for Peter. He won't test him too much; Sam more than likely will still win even if he tries to tee off all night and can't clear him out, but he can also try boxing with a boxer. Brock was so nervous-looking against Eddie Chambers of all people that he'll be tired down the stretch and Peter can collect the latter rounds.

Steward tends to train his fighters to be more exciting. He screamed at Lennox to take out Tyson, screamed at Taylor to take out Spinks and screamed at Klitschko to take out Ibragimov. It wasn't that these guys weren't winning- he sees the crowd and knows what it looks like when his fighter is in there not losing as opposed to winning. He had to train Klitschko how to clench because of how quickly things can go wrong for Wlad off one well-placed punch, but you're right, Klitschko is moving away from it. Manny wants him to utilize his greatest talent; that big right hand.

But I don't know if Klitschko will be a 1, 2 or 3 round KO kind of guy. Think of the recent fights he's had where he could have tested his opponent and didn't only to find out the guy really didn't have anything for him and he pulled the trigger later on. Ray Austin is different; I don't think I've ever seen someone take a KO beating from 90% jabs.

Klitschko now fights tall like he should. I'd like to see him fight a little faster. That's one thing Lennox definitely had over him; he could move like he was a lot smaller.

The one thing I do want to go away is the chin talk regarding Peter. Jameel McCline has NEVER been that kind of fighter and strangely he turns into a monster when he fights Peter. I think the pre-fight interview is very indicative of what was really going on. Notice Maskaev wasn't able to produce the same result.