Quote Originally Posted by TysonBomb View Post
lmao

Was Holmes popular? He was American and nobody cared ... he was relatively obscure compared to past heavyweight champions. Wlad has a nonsense doctorate in "Sports Science." I'm not slamming any doctorate degree (I've come to realize that they're all rigorous ever since I started med school) but its meaningless.

I do agree that Wlad being non American or non British makes him less popular but the point is that he literally fights scared. Freaking cruiserweights have this guy shitting himself ... I mean, how many times did he clinch a senile and decrepit Mormeck?? And if IIRC, he clinched Sam Peter nearly 100 times in their first fight.
Larry Holmes was popular enough I'd say, sure he was "the guy after Ali" so I'm certain nobody allowed him to forget that. But the guy was well known, people followed his career, went to his fights, and yeah he (like Wladimir) had a division devoid of true threats.

You say "Wlad fights scared"....if he was "scared" he wouldn't be in the ring to begin with now would he? Wlad likes to avoid getting hit in the head and he fights accordingly. Perhaps David Price should follow suit...also it'll catch up with Tyson Fury soon enough as well. These heavyweights are bigger than they have ever been, they're fast, they're athletic, and it probably doesn't tickle if you get punched in the face by one.

As for the clinching, Wlad has longer arms than most of his opponents and therefore it benefits him to not be in so close. Also Wlad is bigger and uses his size to wear down on a fighter. Tyson used his size to his advantage as well...you don't see anyone bitching about that? Well why didn't Tyson ever fight from the outside? He always had to get in so close before punching, rabble rabble rabble!!!!