Klitschko v Ibragimov - World Heavyweight Title UNIFICATION DRBR

[Mr. Cosell]

If you are a new fan to boxing then you're going to be disappointed very often with that attitude.

At a certain point it made no sense to risk a onesided fight like that to make a statement.

He should have taken more action earlier....Wladimir wants to be a crowd pleaser, he was disappointed he didn't KO Sultan but he won and there is no way he can go back and KO Sultan now....he'll come back and KO the next poor bastard he fights and I feel sorry for them.

I'm by far a new boxing fan, mainly I'm just drunk and pissy, but you and I both know that Vlad was good enough to completely destroy Sultan, despite was "awkward" or "countering" style he may have had

[El Kabong]

Yes but the ghosts of Wladimir's past attempts to "jump on and take out" a southpaw proved a little more disasterous than this effort, however boring it was

[OumaFan]

Wlad did slap Ibragimov's right hand down well.

I blame Manny Steward to an extent. He's the one who got Wlad to start all the excessive hugging. But at least he was punching.

Its partly the style, Sultan's is still not as easy to look good against as say Brewster's is. But I'm not even a fan, I'm not gonna make excuses for everything, Wlad could have done more and was just content to do as little as possible.

I didn't even see the Duddy fight but that sounds like Duddy. Worst defense I've seen in a long time. Its like he thinks ducking the other guy's punches is condescending or something. Pavlik-Duddy is just a ridiculous mismatch.

[leftylee]

Duddy nearly got KNFO in the first round, Seriousley Pavlik would eat Duddy.

[CutMeMick]

Yes it was a boring fight. (Although theres been worst)

Wladdy won, but come on people. What did you want him to do throw the right hand repeatedly and possibly get countered with the left by Sultan. I mean watch the fight look at Sultans stance and how far back he was cocking that left hand. The slightest misscalculation by Wladdy and Sultan would have capatalized on it. If Wladdy missed with that right at any point he would have been off balance and would have been vanurable for Sultans left......
I would have liked for Wladdy to throw the right hand a little more. I do like that those of you who are complaining don't see the guy has 44 KO's in 50 wins. If the KO comes and is there he'll get it. Yes he was defensive Yes he could have been more aggressive but 1 fight out off 53 that he's been in where he does this and everyones fucken on him like flys on shit.

[El Kabong]

Thank you Mick!


No one said anything about how Wlad's defense was a lot better....did you not notice how he blocked Sultan's punches?

I just hope Wladimir doesn't make a habit of fighting in a boring manner as it will be bad for him and he'll end up trying to over compensate for past fights and it'll catch up with him

[CutMeMick]

No one said anything about how Wlad's defense was a lot better....did you not notice how he blocked Sultan's punches?

His defense was superb. The best we've seen thus far from him.
I mean Sultan landed in total 97 punches thru 12 rounds. That's less then 10 punches per round about 8 punches.

I just hope Wladimir doesn't make a habit of fighting in a boring manner as it will be bad for him and he'll end up trying to over compensate for past fights and it'll catch up with him

I hope so too, I know he wont. It's 1 fight in 53... I'll def. give him the benefit of the doubt.