Great Technical Boxers Limited by Mentality

[Majesty]

Wladimer Klitschko

...yeah because being THE Heavyweight Champion of the world just isn't hitting the top of your game

Mike Tyson isn't walking through that door Majesty so why don't you go watch Butterbean or something, that's what you want right A guy who will "mix it up", a guy who "takes chances"....BOXING is hit and don't get hit, it's not a fucking Toughman competition.

I look at this thread and I read "Great Technical Boxers Limited by Mentality" which to me means "guys who had some skill but because of their mindset or some mental issues they could not achieve their potential" Wladimir Klitschko is a 3 time Heavyweight champion, he's The Ring magazine Heavyweight champion, he holds the IBF and WBO belts and just dominated the #3 ranked heavyweight in the world and you think he's limited by his mentality

He IS limited by his mentality. he underperforms because he is afraid of getting knocked out and looks stiff in the ring. He has improved as a fighter but fights like he still has something to be scared about. Just because someone achieves a lot doesn't mean they aren't limited by their mentality. He holds himself back from performing as great as he can because he is mentally scarred from being knocked out. Limited by Mentality doesn't have to mean they always lose. He fights like he is scared to get knocked out again and it holds him back from putting on a performance that makes the heavyweight division watchable. He has people in front of him he can steamroll yet he never presses the issue because he is afraid of getting knocked out again. Wladimer's playing hide and seek with himself but no one's it.

Wladimer is limited by his mentality from being knocked out, he is now a tentative cautious fighter that makes the heavyweight division boring, if he was never knocked out he'd never learned anything new and became a better fighter. Yet he became a better fighter and still fights like he has the world to be afraid of in the ring. He is the definition of a fighter with great skill but limited by his mentality to pull the trigger. It doesnt mean he loses all the time. But it does mean he is a great technical boxer limited by his mentality.

The problem with Wladimer that i thought you'd understand right now is not his execution of hit and not get hit. It's called not taking advantages of all your skills to blast someone out rather then let them stay around.

Like I said before the mentality of "I have all the punches in the world but i wont use them until someone hurts me" is a pretty stupid way of thinking. Use them all the time to make sure they don't hurt you, don't pick and choose when you wanna use them just cause you can. It says enough about his talent that he can get away with it right now in his career but it also speaks for how weak the division is. You have all the punches in the world you use them and win the fight, you don't perform down to what your opponent is doing and do just enough above that to win a fight. That's stupid. All other fighters that perform down to the level of their opposition but still win get hell but people want to exempt Wladimer. Why?:

I'm very aware about Boxing being hit and not get hit, hell Im the guy who made the Larry Merchant vid because he hated on a fighter in Chris Byrd who HAD to fight defensively.

But there is a difference between the style you HAVE to fight and the style you decide to fight. Wladimer doesn't have to fight like he doesn't have speed power ability over everyone else. Wladimer has won a fight in two rounds using one hand yet people try to act like if he didn't use the strategy of jab, grab and right hand that he would get knocked out and he is a much better fighter then that. He just doesnt show it because mentally he is still scarred from getting knocked out. Too many what if's in his head that you'd think would have been gone after the Peter fight. They aren't. Do to me, Wladimer is a great technical boxer limited by mentality