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.
i gotta say man, i think people have a hugley exaggerated image of how it used to be, just because there arent 20 world class HW fighters doesnt mean wlad wouldnt KO most past HW fighters...

peolple even seem to think the HW division ewas like 60 times better off in the early 90s with fucking buster mathis, michael and leon spinks... wtf man, who else is supposedley better then all of wlads opponents?

ROBOTIC?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

WTF MAN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

you people dis him for having no stamina when he comes out and throws everything he has (which takes no tactic) and when he does the most insanley tactical thing ever and barley misses a single counter punch he gets told he doesnt throw enough?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!


come on, mayweather could do the exact same thing and everyone would kiss his ass for it

and about american atheletes...

the best athelets are wide recievers running backs and defensive backs

out of those tree only the build of runnning backs would really transfer to boxing, and most of them wouldnt make good fighters


im guessing your not reffering to linesmen...

at least i hope not...