^ Granted the holding in the Povetkin/Klitschko fight was disgustingly excessive.

However 3. points should preclude this fight from ever being rated as lamest title fight.

1. You can see clearly from the highlights that Povetkin was responsible for a great number of these clinches by bulling his way in.

2. It's obvious the fight was fought at a high energy pace beyond anything ever produced by say LARRY HOLMES for instance

3. If you only seen the highlights you would think this was an excellent fight.

In fact Povetkin was one of Klitschko's most competitive opponents and you can see clearly the skill level involved during the actual boxing.

Just look at the angles that Povetkin is trying to employ, they are from all sorts of strange angles, testament to the versatility of the Russian and to the ability of the Ukranian to neutralise it.