Wlad Only Has Two Punches...

[Spicoli]

I dont think its a case of heart or desire as much as his previous defeats being in the back of his mind.Tea spilled over shit.He has honed up his defense behind an often floatie buffer zone jab in a big way to keep his chin insured.I think that eventually someone will drag him into a fire fight and he'll have to press forward to make it through....show the mentality of a finisher when its not on his terms.He needs to bring that righthand more.....its a wrecking ball.He may be smart to steer away from throwing too many uppercuts.Leaves him all heeeeello and bent over.

[BoxingGorilla]

I do wish Wlad would throw one of those steel-hammer righthand shots into someones guts now and again.

The good Doctor will loose sooner or later and it will be a case of a big punch sneaking around that telephone pole he shoves up a fighters nose.

It gets old after awhile, Dr. Klitschko. You are becoming the Lance Armstrong of heavyweight boxing. Soon the big speculation will be which man is the second best. Oh, that would be your carbon copy brother...

[TheDemolitionDan]

Klitschko is a perfect 101 Boxer. If you have an athletic fighter who is taller than his opponents pop in a video of Wlad and say this is exactly how you out box your opponent by throwing the one two. He is perfect, but in terms of excitiment he is very boring which does hurt how you compare him with the all-time greats. Why is Mike Tyson so popular and why is he in the top 10 Heavyweight boxers of all-time is because he is exciting.

[C-Lo]

I consider him to be a two-punch fighter as well. I seldomly see him throw any uppercuts and his left hook is something he is thinking about in order to throw instead of it coming out naturally.

Maybe one of these days he can fight someone that can bob and weave. But unfortunately, with the shape of most of the heavyweights, they would tire out in 2 rounds of head movement.

[El Kabong]

WTF?!?! Wlad's left hook is devistating!!!! He hooks off the jab better than anyone I have ever seen.

The only reason he seemed to use just the 1-2 vs Chagaev is because Ruslan is a southpaw and that would open Wlad up to counters.

Witht he left hook and the left hook ALONE Wlad has: knocked down Ray Mercer and KO'd any number of opponents, the most impressive being Ray Austin as the shear SOUND of the punch tells you all you need to know about how effective it is, when I hear it, it reminds me of Hearns-Duran:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO_sWnawpU4

1 big left hook and 4-5 to follow up...no killer instinct my ass

[ElTerribleMorales]

I just see a guy who has the physical ability and uses just enough to win with taking no chances at all. Manny Steward is right, he may end up in the hall, but the only think that is impressive to me is his jab, when he throws it as a punch and not a paw, and his right hand.

So you must not be a Floyd Mayweather, Bernard Hopkins, or Roy Jones fan either....Cause all three of those guys are careful defense oriented and do not like to take chances.......At least Wlad KO's most of his opponents....

You cant compare Wlad to those 3. He is a heavyweight and usually has a big physical advantage over his opponents because there is no max. size a heavyweight needs to be. Those other guys fought within a limit. Plus all those guy would put blazing combination together and mix it up with their opponents.

i agree that can't really compare Wlad to the 3 mentioned, but him being a HW has nothing to do to it, yea he has a big size advantage, but that's still against guys that can crack anyone with a single shot, so i have no prob with cautious heavies, only thing i can't stand is if they don't engage period, like Ruiz, Wlad still gets the knockouts, can't expect him to go to war every time out, and still have the level of success he's had, and last very long either, he's a good champion

i remember an article i read and it pretty much sums it up pretty well, fighters like Wlad probably wont be appreciated until he's long gone, he takes on the best possible opponants out there, is willing to take on anyone, and 9 times out 10 he knocks them out, give the guy a break