Quote Originally Posted by Britkid
Personally, Wlad and Vitali in particular, personifies all that is wrong in Heavyweight boxing. It is not all their fault, but the reasons are:

Vitali was just a big hulk of a man, if the top Black American athletes had continued in boxing, he would of a been nothing more than fringe contender IMO.

Wlad is just as annoying from the point of view of the fact, he is not without a lot of talent. But ever since Purity he has rarely used it! Instead, he is robotic and predictable, and has been caught out a couple of times, because of that. Wlad could of been a hugely dominate World Champion, the equal of Lennox, at least, but he has failed...

I look at what Heavyweight boxing was in the 70s and 80s, and it makes me shake my head. The personalities and fighters I could identify with, have disappeared, and in their place, have come these huge East Europeans, who lack in ring generalship, and because they do not have English as their first language, they lack the ability to get their personalites across, and thus for the English speaking world, boxing is poorer.
He is the exact opposite of robotic and predictable!!He is the smartest heavyweight in the past 15 years!You heard what Byrd said after the fight how he never trained for the kind of fight Wladimir brought to him, and Byrd knows how to adapt to any style.He could easily be better than Lewis and at 30 years old has 49 fights to his credit and is still improving!!Get over Lewis, he is retired like Vitali, give Wladimir his credit!