Wladimir Klitschko Plans To Make a Statement

[TheGreatA]

More comparable with these left hooks:


Tommy Morrison


Mike McCallum (01:40)


Donald Curry

[Derranged_]

Since this fight was announced several months ago, I've 'flipped-flopped' more times than John Kerry on my prediction on this fight. I first thought that Wlad would dominate Ibragimov enroute to a KO; I then changed my prediction and said that Ibragimov would make this a difficult fight but with Klitschko still winning...

However, after reading the media reports, the interviews with the fighters and their trainors, and several opinion pieces, I've changed my prediction once again. Here it is:

Klitschko is going to dominate this fight from start to finish, will win every round, and finish Ibragimov via devistating KO/TKO before the end of the 7th round...

[-Antonio-]

Wlad is just better. If Sultan wants to paw with his right, Wlad will just come over top with his jab. If he decides to jump in with a left, Wlad will tee off with his right hand.

[edgarg]

I stopped reading when i read "his left hook is Frazier like"
Common please!!!

The article writer gets into a sort of dream-world where fantasies become fact, so please forgive him. I myself have had several bitter exchanges with him in the past due to his fantastic comments, to the extent that I had to block his vulgar replies, and this is the first time I have written mentioning him. His writing is generally good, but sonmetimes it seems as if his imaginations wanders. To describe Klitschko as a 355lb ferocious left hooking body puncher like Joe Frazier makes me wonder whom he's describing. Klitschko is top class no doubt, but he is a schooled fighter, with ALL the basics deeply drilled into him. He's not very different from what he's always been, never mind the "magic" of Manny Steward. All I can see that he does now, that he didn't do before, is that he clinches when he comes close to an opponent. He tries (unsuccessfully) to d**** himself of the other guy to use his weight to tire him out. He tries to hold around the neck for a moment to deliver an uppercut. These are all Lennox Lewis tricks. His punch output has dropped lots, which is supposed to preserve his stamina. Weellll-until the Brewster fight, there's never been ANY question of his stamina, as he himself has repeated over and over. His early Purrity loss "might" be accounted for by ""lack of stamina", stetching a few points. He was 21, just ending his 2nd pro year. It was his 25th fight in 24 months, and worn down to 225 lbs-25lbs lighter than Puritty. For 10 rounds he'd beaten Puritty all over the ring, punching 3 minutes in every round and winning each one by a mile. So.........Puritty wouldn't "go away" and Klitschko got tired. His corner stopped it after the 10th rd.
His chin'd never been any problem with over 100 amateur and many pro fights...until he was hit in the right place by Corrie Sanders by a punch he never saw. He was butted too if you look carefully at the slo-mo. He kept getting up, so the ref stopped it. This can happen to anyone, and it always does, sooner or later. It even happened to that extremely slick boxer-puncher Juan Carlos Gomez, who still has only that one loss, and if he was a little bigger, would for sure be a Heavyweight Champ too.

Klitschko's KD's by Sam Peter have been repeated in every Klitscko story. yet, you can see that they were NOT KD's, being a dead centre rabbit punch, a shoulder grab and push, (all seen and mentioned by the analysts)and an over-far head pullback and feet slip away. The KD's are always mentioned, but that Klitschko won EVERY round, except those 3 on the official score cards-mever mentioned. He gave Peter a boxing lesson, and nearly KO'd him in the 12th with a single left hook. Maybe THAT showed Jameel McCline where Peters' weakness was, since he, a light puncher, knocked Peter down 3 times, and looked certain to stop him. I was always neutral on the Klitsckos, seeing them as a breath of fresh air into boxing circles, but the flagrant and unfair attacks for being educated, quiet, gentlemanly, well behaved, public=spirited, charitable etc, caused me to become a supporter. I've already said too much I'm sure so will quit now.

[Pugilistic™]

and he will when he beats sultan by mid round tko

[edgarg]

TO THE MANCHINE-You're on the mark in my opinion. Not the Morrison hook but the Robinson one. Most hookers seem to me to be just sweeping, with no fulcrum and no pivot, and when they miss, they're off balance and wide open. But Robinson punched from his feet, with his elbow tucked in, and delived right to the objective, and was rarely, if ever, off balanxce because of a missed punch. At least not any that could be taken advantage of. Your example video brought back memories to me as I saw the fight on TV at that time, and I thank you.

Klitschko's hook off the jab" which the HBO guy gets ecstatic over, seems to me to be very rudimentary, as if he doesn't quite believ it himself. merely a jab with a late inward bend and movement of his wrist, with very little power. BUT, the left hook to Sam Peter in the 12th round was picture perfect, right to the point, like the Robinson hooks. I should say here that it was clear to me and friends watching the fight, and later confirmed by Manny Steward in several interviews, that in the Peter fight, which Klitschko HAD to win, he dared leave himself open to Sam's reputed enormous punch. So he followed instructions closely and punched only about 60% strength, so as not to leave himself open if he missed. It was a thrilling fight, and showed exactly what a skilled boxer can do against a crude swinger, who, at the same time, is sufficiently good enough to be a threat.

[TheGreatA]

The Morrison hook was just too good to not put in there.

Wlad threw a very fast counter left hook that landed perfectly, all credit to Sam Peter for staying up.

I think Wlad should go all out against Ibragimov and punish him with jabs, left hooks and right hands.
For the last few fights he has been content on just using his left hand, he didn't use his right at all against journeyman Ray Austin and he barely used it against Brewster.

I'd like to see Wlad throw an uppercut every once in a while too.

[BrooklynBomber]

The Morrison hook was just too good to not put in there.

Wlad threw a very fast counter left hook that landed perfectly, all credit to Sam Peter for staying up.

I think Wlad should go all out against Ibragimov and punish him with jabs, left hooks and right hands.
For the last few fights he has been content on just using his left hand, he didn't use his right at all against journeyman Ray Austin and he barely used it against Brewster.

I'd like to see Wlad throw an uppercut every once in a while too.

He actually did, against brewster, the first one was rather miserable but the second one landed nicely, I think it was in 5th or 4th where he got Brewster on the ropes

[Leo Pradun]

decent article but Klitschko is not known for his body punches up intill the sam peter fight I dont think I have seen him throw a body punch and in the fight I think he threw like 2 or 3 of those.

[The Hammer]

His left hook is nothing like Fraziers.

True...

Wlad's left hook is much more powerful! A couple of left hooks KOed a big man in Ray Austin, who hadn't lost (let alone get stopped) in the previous five years...