After a week long hiatus with a near death illness…no shat ya’ll…Wacko was sick as fwock! I’m still trying to pull through for yee ole’ fourf of July party…we shall see.


Anywho, still roughly 7 or 8 days away HBO is bringing us the rematch that we all some of us have been waiting for: Wladimir Klitschko vs. Lamon Brewster. I should be all better to hit the bottle once again & hammer out another round by round for your & mine’s own drunken pleasure. Cheers.


They say that the bigger they are the harder they fall…& quite often…in boxing, nothing could be more on point…& Wladimir Klitschko has nailed that one to a tee.

While their first encounter ended in a shocking knockout loss…extra shockingly in Lamon Brewster’s favor…we will be treated to a second serving of the now thrice disposed & thrice re-crowned Ukrainian heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.


Oh joy, oh joy!


Back in the year 2000 (man that seems soooooooo very long ago!) the younger Klit was being heralded as the heir apparent to Lennox Lewis’s throne. There was no star in the stratosphere that shone quite as brightly as Wladimir‘s. He was young, he was pretty, he was powerful…just what the division needed then & exactly what the division needs now. With wins over the likes of Bostice, Jefferson, Shufford, McCline, Byrd, Mercer, Botha, & Barrett he was fast rising to the top…only to be derailed in 2003 by an aging heavyweight knockout artist & long shot Corrie Sanders of South Africa.

Many of Wlad’s most ardent supporters like to avoid discussing the loss to Sanders…much like they do the Brewster loss…& the even earlier loss to Purity. We’ll have none of that here.

After losing to Sanders, it would prove to be a hard & often tedious road back to the top for Wladimir. Wlad would go on to fight two more times in 2003 & quite spectacularly against two lightly regarded & easily stoppable heavyweight contenders in Danell Nicholson & Fabio Moli.

He was back…the savior was back. He had skipped the high road & jumped on the fast track.

In April of 2004, the Ukrainian former champ would return to his second home of Las Vegas, Nevada to match power & skills with Lamon Brewster for the vacant WBO Heavyweight title.

That trip back to the top ended in (queue the drama!!) tragedy for Klitshko as he would batter Brewster from pillar to post before gassing out over the span of five rounds. Again…it was a shock to everyone ringside & couch bound…which brings us back on track with the first or second paragraph of this novella.

Back then, Wlad was the man to beat…much like he is now, & thus the drama of the rematch.

This weekend we have two heavyweights that are both on the path to redemption…each of them in need of the win. After a couple of bad performances, a devastating knockout, and a loss to Serquei Lyakhovich over 12 one sided rounds during which he suffered one hell of an eye injury, Brewster has been on a year & a half layoff with no tune ups in sight. Not exactly the best of circumstances for a rematch with a heavyweight champion.

While this might seem unfair…this is the way of boxing & now that Klitschko once again holds two of the world sanctioning body’s titles & not to mention, the public’s adoration, we have our rematch…be that what it might.

This Saturday, July 7th 2007, live via satellite & Germany’s tick tock we’ll be comin atcha once again from the watchful & ever so comfy couch & home of the drunken round by round kingpin at 5:00 p.m. courtesy of HBO’s World Championship Boxing from the Cologne Arena in Cologne, Germany.


As always with these precisions I say to the oh faithful viewers & readers of the game…it’s fight night & with that…it’s time to break out the chips & salsa accompanied by your poison of choice.

The poll is above…so make your picks & let’s get this thing underway. As soon as I’ve fully recovered I’ll be back in the thick of it with the lot of you…but until then…make your picks & voice your opinions.

As always…much love…cheers & koneecheewah bitches.