Wladimir Klitschko vs. Marius Wach

[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...

[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)