vitali Klitschko vs J C Gomez 3-21-09

[VictorCharlie]

He better come in better shape and a lot more technically sound if he ends up fighting Haye

[superheavyrhun]

Vitali looked competent, but Gomez didn't have the tools to dismantle him and Klitschko was comfortable, and ought to have put him away earlier. At least gives Haye a plan b again if Wlad gets jelly-legs regarding the fight.

Over to RTE now for the Bernie Dunne bout.

[killersheep]

Call me crazy but I think Wlad would have beat that version of Vitali.

Gomez did what he could, but his gameplan wasn't quite right, smothering his work and trying to hook over the arm of a guy that much taller were bad ideas.

Vitali looked to have very poor conditioning, he did what we all expected in the end, but not nearly the way at least I expected. I'm sure some of it was from Gomez bouncing around though.

[Hunter]

Well Vitali did what was expected. It was an ugly fight but that can be blamed on Gomez, who bascally kept charging inside and than tieing up.

You cant fault Klitschko for the fight being a stinker because Gomez wasn't throwing and basically just wanted to clinch the whole time.

[TheDemolitionDan]

Vitali looked pretty good, nothing spectacular. Gomez did what he could early, but he wasn't in the best of shape and plus there's not much you can do against a giant. It was ok not as boring as I thought it would be.

Also, ESPN's coverage was horrible I hope there are no more big fights on ESPN. Stick with HBO or Showtime.

[Hunter]

Vitali looked pretty good, nothing spectacular. Gomez did what he could early, but he wasn't in the best of shape and plus there's not much you can do against a giant. It was ok not as boring as I thought it would be.

Also, ESPN's coverage was horrible I hope there are no more big fights on ESPN. Stick with HBO or Showtime.

Are you out of your mind I think they did a fine job, and would love to see more fights on ESPN.

[TheDemolitionDan]

Vitali looked pretty good, nothing spectacular. Gomez did what he could early, but he wasn't in the best of shape and plus there's not much you can do against a giant. It was ok not as boring as I thought it would be.

Also, ESPN's coverage was horrible I hope there are no more big fights on ESPN. Stick with HBO or Showtime.

Are you out of your mind I think they did a fine job, and would love to see more fights on ESPN.

Really? I thought the camera angles were horrible and it wasn't even in HD. Atlas and Brian Kenny did a good job calling the fight, but the whole brodcast stunk IMO.

[Spicoli]

Vitali looked pretty good, nothing spectacular. Gomez did what he could early, but he wasn't in the best of shape and plus there's not much you can do against a giant. It was ok not as boring as I thought it would be.

Also, ESPN's coverage was horrible I hope there are no more big fights on ESPN. Stick with HBO or Showtime.

Are you out of your mind I think they did a fine job, and would love to see more fights on ESPN.

Really? I thought the camera angles were horrible and it wasn't even in HD. Atlas and Brian Kenny did a good job calling the fight, but the whole broadcast stunk IMO.

It was choppy. But I think they had no control,and were calling it from Stateside Studio with major editing and camera,interviews being decided by local German (?)broadcasters.Some how regardless...Teddy still came off like he had jet lag

[Hunter]

Are you out of your mind I think they did a fine job, and would love to see more fights on ESPN.

Really? I thought the camera angles were horrible and it wasn't even in HD. Atlas and Brian Kenny did a good job calling the fight, but the whole broadcast stunk IMO.

It was choppy. But I think they had no control,and were calling it from Stateside Studio with major editing and camera,interviews being decided by local German (?)broadcasters.Some how regardless...Teddy still came off like he had jet lag

If HBO or SHowtime wanted the fight it would have been on HBO or Showtime. It is nice to see ESPN in there picking up the fight otherwise it would have been on PPV.

[TheDemolitionDan]

Are you out of your mind I think they did a fine job, and would love to see more fights on ESPN.

Really? I thought the camera angles were horrible and it wasn't even in HD. Atlas and Brian Kenny did a good job calling the fight, but the whole broadcast stunk IMO.

It was choppy. But I think they had no control,and were calling it from Stateside Studio with major editing and camera,interviews being decided by local German (?)broadcasters.Some how regardless...Teddy still came off like he had jet lag

Well, if they had no control over it then my opinion would change. I do like the fact that it was free and on ESPN. Boxing should start doing this getting some fights on CBS,FOX,ABC, etc.....just as long it's in HD.

[superheavyrhun]

Well, if they had no control over it then my opinion would change. I do like the fact that it was free and on ESPN. Boxing should start doing this getting some fights on CBS,FOX,ABC, etc.....just as long it's in HD.

Back about 5-10 years ago, when boxing was solely on Sky Tv in the UK, it was pretty dismal and hard to access for many people. When Sports Network and Calzaghe though went with ITV, a free-to-air broadcaster the profile just went through the roof. However, it seems to have retreated back to the subscription channels for the most part, so it may fade once more, unless Froch becomes as big a star as Calzaghe was, as he's the biggest on ITV at the moment.

More fights on free TV would make as big a difference to the sport in the US as it did a few years ago over here, and can only be a good thing.

[DaxxKahn]

Really? I thought the camera angles were horrible and it wasn't even in HD. Atlas and Brian Kenny did a good job calling the fight, but the whole broadcast stunk IMO.

It was choppy. But I think they had no control,and were calling it from Stateside Studio with major editing and camera,interviews being decided by local German (?)broadcasters.Some how regardless...Teddy still came off like he had jet lag

Well, if they had no control over it then my opinion would change. I do like the fact that it was free and on ESPN. Boxing should start doing this getting some fights on CBS,FOX,ABC, etc.....just as long it's in HD.

There was a time that all the big fights were on ABC...Thats how the people who did not follow the sport knew ir was an important fight

[Cortez The Killer]

Teddy spent half the time commenting on the fight (if that?) and the other half criticizing the fighters/promoters/event every chance he had.

He stops just shy of criticizing the viewer for watching it



I agree with most of you that although that Vitali didn't look very impressive. But with his size/age/injuries he's not going to be getting any better.

I would favor Haye to beat the Vitali that showed up last night and probably the Vitali that will show up to the ring for the rest of his career.

[DaxxKahn]

Vitali looked pretty good, nothing spectacular. Gomez did what he could early, but he wasn't in the best of shape and plus there's not much you can do against a giant. It was ok not as boring as I thought it would be.

Also, ESPN's coverage was horrible I hope there are no more big fights on ESPN. Stick with HBO or Showtime.

Are you out of your mind I think they did a fine job, and would love to see more fights on ESPN.

Agree I mean this was a HW title fight with the second best (Depending on who you ask) HW in the world....The last HW champion to have a live HW title fight on TV for free was Lennox Lewis on FOX network.....That was a long time ago.....(SHO/HBO do not count as free they are premimum chanels)...

I wish the trend would continue