Quote Originally Posted by superheavyrhun View Post
You can see why the big broadcasters stateside don't want to get behind Wlad, he is just so frustrating to watch because of his caution. The finish was good, but suffering the 9 rounds before that just wasn't worth it. We've got to hope that the Haye fight gets made and Haye wins, otherwise it's going to be a case of waiting for V&W to retire before there's any real interest in the heavies again.

Also, the ref should have stopped it 15-20 seconds earlier, Peter's corner should have stopped it a round earlier too.
Wlad is the first person to STOP Peter during a round and yet we just keep on complaining about how the guy gets to the KO....if Wlad was American HBO would be crazy for him, ESPN would never have gotten a chance of showing this fight and he'd pack the house every night (same goes for Chicken Little eventhough he's a gutless coward)...the problem is #1 They aren't American #2 They don't give in to media pressure to fight int he US #3 They won't make their fights later to be shown at a regular time here in the US and for all those reasons the networks don't like them....it has very little to do with how he fights, that's just a straw man argument because the guy gets the KO more times than not.

The fight could have been stopped at any point in time as Wlad let nothing bother him, getting hit low, getting held, getting hit late while he didn't have his hands up, and just getting hit with power shots...Wlad wasn't bothered by anything but the headmovement which was only a slight bother.