Klitschko Jabs His Way To Revenge

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

By Sammy Rozenberg - Three-years-ago in Las Vegas, Wladimir Klitschko (49-3, 44 KOs) suffered the worst loss of his career when was stopped in five rounds by heavy underdog Lamon Brewster (33-4, 29 KOs). On Saturday night at the Cologne Arena in Cologne, Germany, Klitschko gained a measure of revenge when stopped Brewster in six rounds to successfully retain his IBF heavyweight title.

Over 20,000 boxing fans chanted Klitschko's name as he pumped his left jab like a drill from the opening bell. Brewster was never able to find a way to get past the reach and size advantage of Klitschko. The left jab was Klitschko's money punch in this fight. He landed over 50 jabs per round, and in the process landed more jabs against Brewster in six rounds than any previous opponent who fought Brewster, even in twelve round bouts.

After five rounds of witnessing Brewster take a beating from Klitschko's left jab and right hand, trainer Buddy McGirt gave his fighter one more round to show him something. He came out for the sixth round like he did the previous five, standing flat-footed and taking a pounding.

McGirt had no choice, but to stop the fight at the end of the sixth round, giving Klitschko his revenge in anticlimactic fashion. Brewster did not complain with the stoppage and actually agreed with the decision of his trainer.

"I have a family at home. Klitschko was the better man tonight. He had a good jab. I knew that I couldn't take those punches all night," Brewster said.

Brewster was coming off 15-month layoff due to detached retina, suffered during his April 2006 loss to Sergei Liakhovich. Once he returns to America, he plans to sit down with his family to discuss the future of his career. [details]

[Steelhammer86]

There's a barrier to Wladimir fighting the winner of the Chagaev vs. Ibagimov October fight. The WBO mandatory challenger will be the winner of the July 14 fight between Thompson and Krasniqi. If the winner doesn't get a promised shot at the WBO title early next year because Wlad is fighting a unification match at that time, there could be legal problems, like with Peter and Maskaev.

However there's a solution to the problem: Wlad could offer Thompson/Krasniqi an IBF title shot for an October date, and the winner of that could fight the winner of Chagaev/Ibragimov early next year to unify three belts.

This October fight would keeps both Wlad and the winner of Thompson/Krasniqi active while waiting for the outcome of the Chagaev/Ibragimov and prevents any legal issues and step aside payments down the road.

[!!Captain]

There's a another barrier to Wladimir fighting the winner of the Chagaev vs. Ibagimov October fight. The WBO mandatory challenger will be the winner of the July 14 fight between Thompson and Krasniqi. If the winner doesn't get a promised shot at the WBO title early next year because Wlad is fighting a unification match at that time, there could be legal problems, like with Peter and Maskaev.

However there's a solution to the problem: Wlad could offer Thompson/Krasniqi an IBF title shot for an October date, and the winner of that could fight the winner of Chagaev/Ibragimov early next year to unify three belts.

This October fight would keeps both Wlad and the winner of Thompson/Krasniqi active while waiting for the outcome of the Chagaev/Ibragimov and prevents any legal issues and step aside payments down the road.

The belts are useless at this point. Klitschko should fight the winner of Chagaev/Ibragimov regardless of the belts. The winner of that fight is the man in the division and to hell with ABC belts and their sanctioning.

[EliteSoldier]

when someone quits on the stool like brewster did. Does it count as a ko still? Because it should, because we all know brewster was about to get ko'd. If not they robbed wlad

[Steelhammer86]

when someone quits on the stool like brewster did. Does it count as a ko still? Because it should, because we all know brewster was about to get ko'd. If not they robbed wlad

Yes, it counts as a technical knockout. They call it a "RTD". So Wlad now has gone from 43 KOs to 44 KOs.

[EliteSoldier]

it's still lame that they didn't allow for wlad to get his knockout. It's not as though brewster was bleeding to death. I'm not dumb, I know wlad hurt him but it's just lame that it ended that way.