Quote Originally Posted by Scrap View Post
I always have a look a second time at Fights Ive seen live.So I thought Id Have a second look this morning. After two rounds I turned it off realising my first opinion was correct, crap.
I watched the fight again as it showed up on TSN, our nations sports channel several times since.

I didn't enjoy the fight. Wish I did, was hoping to, but simply didn't.

Maybe I have just grown accustomed to watching lighter weights fight? Not really sure.

As mentioned in here, some things that I did notice that helped me not enjoy the fight, was the lack of mobility and angles. Wlad used his jab to keep that distance, but it was just that and little more, and I didn't think Thompson did much to get inside of it which he needed to. Wlad I was hoping would be forced to be more creative fighting a lefty, but I didn't see it. He did use his right a bit more I suppose. I don't buy the arguement that Thompson did well because he absorbed shots. Heavy bags absorb shots too, but don't lay down in the 10th and ask for their pay cheque. He did this after turning into a former sparring partner for 3 or so round before. The man clearly was not fighting to win. Wlad was fighting to win, and did...but it was was it was. Bit of a snoozefest.

I'm not sure but when did it become acceptable that heavyweights don't have to move laterally or otherwise and use the ring because they are big?