Quote Originally Posted by Majesty View Post
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
Did he win the other night? Did he stop the guy? Hasn't he stopped the majority of his opponents? Hasn't he won the vast majority of his fights? Then I fail to see how he's "limited" he's not limited he fights smart which is why he's won 11 in a row and had 8 KO's.

I don't think there is any boxer dead or alive who wouldn't want to be able to control a fight like Wladimir did on Saturday. He dished out the punishment, he controlled the pace of the fight and he barely got hit...how the fuck is that limited?!?! So people assume he's SCARED to get hit, how about NOT GETTING HIT is part of the fucking sport?? He's also THE Heavyweight Champion so if he's "limited" it's not affecting much