Wladimir Klitschko Is A Poor Man's Lennox Lewis

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I don't think the statements about "dominating by holding" are fair. Wladimir works at a distance, if an opponent gets past the jab and works to the inside holding is perfect technique....Lennox Lewis did that and he also pushed off a lot and I think that is how Wlad should mix this up and stay away from the holding, people are watching to see if he gets in a clinch just so they can say "Oh there he goes again, he always holds!". You let a fighter get inside your reach and let his hands stay free then you're going to be in big trouble and you should know that.

Wladimir doesn't hold any more or any less than the champions of similar styles did before him: Ali, Holmes, Lewis.

This is the way tall fighters fight, Wladimir puts on a performance to show how to use height and reach....and sometimes that style looks bad.

It was a bad style match up and everyone has those nights

Holding shouldn't be a technique, and while it is, Wladimir definitely takes it to an extreme by using an illegal technique so much that his opponent has next to no chance to win. And I'm not just talking about Ibragimov either because let's be honest he was never going to beat Klitschko.

It's not so much how much holding he does but the fact that it is the only thing he does. I don't think Ali, Holmes and Lewis (especially) held nearly as much as Wladimir does but even if they did, it's not all they did. All did plenty of punching on the inside and Klitschko doesn't.

And pushing off is hardly the same as holding. Lewis did a lot of pushing, so did Ali but at least that keeps the fight going.

As for his next opponents, Chagaev is the next logical step of course and is the fight I would most like to see in the heavyweight division. I don't think Arreola factors in yet and same goes for Dimitrenko who from what I read did not look at all impressive in his last outing.

Valuev - Klitschko is an interesting one that I wouldn't mind seeing and I think it's a bit to early for Povetkin and he would probably go the way of Ibragimov and Brock before him.