Klitschko primed for tough fight!

[Lucky13]

"He will be the best fighter that Wlad will have fought in his career," said Steward, who is training Klitschko.

"This guy is very intelligent, a smart fighter. He is a champion," said Klitschko.

"He is holding a title and he is undefeated and won a silver medal at the 2000 Olympics. He is not impressive, but is a very effective fighter."

Steward - who prepared Lennox Lewis in the previous world heavyweight unification fight against Evander Holyfield in 1999 - revealed the 31-year-old Klitschko has raised his intensity in training.


"We are training six hours a day. We're not taking him lightly," he said.

"He knows how to win fights. He has pretty good hand speed, makes a big guy miss a punch.

"And he's left-handed and puts himself in a position that makes him hard to hit. He's fought big guys all of his life."

But despite praising Ibragimov's attributes, Steward lamented the lack of quality opponents for Klitschko.

"It does frustrate me," said Steward. "I feel like I'm working with one of the best heavyweights in history.

"I think he's at his peak but he doesn't have anyone to fight.

"Wlad is just unfortunate that there are no names out there. The only way to gain recognition is to try and be the unified champion."

I have a feeling this fight won't be a walk in the park but Klitschko has a great team in his corner. I expect a knockout.

[The Hammer]

It's really important to the heavyweight division that Wlad is at his best and scores an impressive KO win to unify the two titles. I like Sultan a lot, he has the heart of a lion and some very good boxing skills, but he's still just a B+ heavyweight.

Despite his lack of a great chin, Wlad is otherwise a bona fide A level, elite heavyweight.

[-Antonio-]

Sultan is going to get worked.

[MELLY-MEL...]

i see iggy giving wlad big problems, and he has a shot to pull off a huge upset! not saying he will, but i may put a few bucks on the guy cause teh odds are huge against him!

[Run]

Yeah the fight won't last 4 rounds.



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[steven_z]

My feeling is that Steward says that Ibragimov the best of Klitchko's opponents just to motivate him. Iggy moves nice, will pose problems for Wlad, but still Wlad will be landing the jab, since it's very quick. Let's assume it will be not 50 jabs/round (as Wlad capable of), but 20. That will be enough to win a decision, since Ibragimov lands only around 100 punches in the whole fight (against 20*12 = 240 jabs for Wlad). I didn't even took into consideration major Klichko's weapon - right hand and the fact that Ibragimov will get very tired by late rounds after getting hit with that jab. Most likely the fight will end by late rounds knockout, around 8-10 round.