Ex-fukking-actly!!
I'm not letting Wlad off the hook with the "he's shot" excuse. To say he's "shot" implies that he was a barnburner style fighter before that. An aggressive, offensively-minded, Tyson-like destroyer who went out of his way to destroy fighters. And bringing up his KO record means diddly squat. 90% of those guys were scared little lambs being led to slaughter. Look at big bad Ray Austin, who cowered like a stepchild caught with his hand in the cookie jar.... looking for a soft spot to land. Wlad was a grappler, who grabbed, mauled, clinched, fouled.... and otherwise frustrated the fukk out of the few brave fighters who actually tried to win against him (see: Povetkin). When he went up against someone his own size who wasn't actually scared of him (ie: Fury).... he fought just like I KNEW he would fight. Like Bambi reaching out for a wild berry in the middle of a hail of gunfire.
Absolutely Brock. Let's get back to Wlad-bashing, one of my favorite pasttimes.
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