KLITSCHKO v POVETKIN - HBO/BOXNATION - Saturday Night CHAT THREAD

[Freedom]

What time is this scheduled for?

The main event will start at about 23:15 Moscow time, 11:15 AM Pacific time, 2:15 PM Eastern time, and 19:15 UK time.

Boxnation will start televising at 16:00 BST and will first show Chagaev-Pudar and Masternek-Drozd.

Wladimir Klitschko v Alexander Povetkin |Live & Exclusive on BoxNation

[El Kabong]

Wlad - 241.6 Povetkin - 225.7

Povetkin is looking to try and fight in a Mike Tyson style....so methinks this will be his undoing. Tyson's style of constant pressure and rabid combinations is with even the very best of athletes good for 4 rounds maximum if you're being held at the end of a jab and tied up. After that you being to stop moving your head, your feet slow down, you start gunning for 1 big punch as opposed to ripping off combos and all that adds up to you starting to get caught on the way in and then backing up. Tyson's style ONLY works going forward, it's not useful fighting off the back foot, and it's hard to draw someone into a trap when they are probing behind a jab and not wildly attacking.

My prediction is Wladimir by KO in 6 rounds. I think Povetkin will show a lot of heart though.

[Master]

Povetkin is not Tyson, I think he will try to box from distance and come in close when necessary, throwing combinations and then out of range again. It will not work but it is his best hope.

[Spicoli]

Looks like a 2:30 start here. Not a bad fight but save for Wlad getting into a car accident on the way to Arena it should turn into another steady methodical punch-in-the-face fest for Wlad. You just cannot go from fighting a used up bloated beached whale like Rahman and think you are prepared for Wlad. I seriously HOPE this is not a replay of Wlad vs Ibragimov