The Klitschko Factor: Assessing Vitali

[Guest]

great points, 1 small correction: Vitali gave Lennox a hell of a fight at STAPLES, not MSG, I only remember because I took my dad to the fight for his 45th B-day

I mentioned the Garden as the place that Ali mentioned, in my bit of underdeveloped musing on why Vitali doesn't sell more tickets. It was Ali's reasoning behind his smack talk.

Bet that must have been great to have been at that one.

[AintGottaClue]

vitlai can sell mroe tickets with just him fighting then ruiz,byrd,lamon all can when those 3 are on the same card. hell didnt vitali vs danny sell more then ruiz,byrd,golota,holy,donald king ppv?

[SacTown1]

I mentioned the Garden as the place that Ali mentioned, in my bit of underdeveloped musing on why Vitali doesn't sell more tickets. It was Ali's reasoning behind his smack talk.

Bet that must have been great to have been at that one.

yeah it was wild, when I bought the tix is was supposed to be Lewis-Kirk Johnson with Vitali on the undercard, then Johnson's fat ass got injured, so all of a sudden we were attending the biggest fight of the year, it was insanity inside STAPLES any time that Klitschko landed a shot, round 2 was more intense than all 3 rounds of Holyfield-Tyson 2 combined (took my dad to that one too, I'm a great son )...even when the fight ended, people stook around for about an hour to trash-talk and wave their flags, it was a fun scene

[guru]

i dont c the big deal about toney. he beat ruiz, but out of the 2 middlweights who became HW champs, two hav beaten ruiz. so i dont think toney is that amazing, plus he cant fight for another 3 months as itis

well by beating ruiz, he beat a guy that fres, rahman, and golota could not... so you have to put him above other guys who have beaten nobody like peter, brock, mccline, fres, etc... also, he's a master boxer, with the exception of byrd, noone else can match him skills wise

[Martin (Top Knowledge)]

great points, 1 small correction: Vitali gave Lennox a hell of a fight at STAPLES, not MSG, I only remember because I took my dad to the fight for his 45th B-day
But anyhow, I agree that he's a good "face" for the division as its champion, he's a big dude who punches hard and is a relatively good citizen outside the ring, I just want to see him vs. elite competition before making any further judgments

oops... The staples centre... LOL!... I reckon you saw one of the greatest heavyweight fights of all time there.

I can only imagine what the atmosphere was like in there... And after Kirk Johnson pulled out a couple of weeks before with torn chest muscles... I bet you were jumping up and down when you learned that the replacement was to be Vitali Klitscho!!!

[SacTown1]

oops... The staples centre... LOL!... I reckon you saw one of the greatest heavyweight fights of all time there.

I can only imagine what the atmosphere was like in there... And after Kirk Johnson pulled out a couple of weeks before with torn chest muscles... I bet you were jumping up and down when you learned that the replacement was to be Vitali Klitscho!!!

Yeah i was pumped up, because I figured the entire card would get postponed or cancelled altogether, but give Gary Shaw credit, he upped Lewis' purse by about 1.5mil to fight Vitali and Lewis took the $$$, people give Lennox crap for being out of shape, but they forget that he was gonna fight Krispy Kreme Kirk originally, which would have been an easy fight, and he took the Vitali fight on about 8 days notice....

anyhow, the electricity inside STAPLES was ridiculous, you could tell from the opening bell that Vitali was more focused than ever, and that Lennox didn't have his A-game, but that's what made it such an exciting fight, I was in the last row, in the corner, but we were surrounded by wild Ukranians, wearing the soccer jerseys and waving their flags, it was a raucous crowd to say the least, and there were about a dozen scraps in the crowd after the fight got stopped, what a night!

[Leo Pradun]

Klitschko is the best HW, I cant wait tll September when hes gonna kill Hasim the asscrack Rahman then all ya haters will shut up.... Keep an eye out for his bro too and my man Nick the slick Valuev, yall cant stop them, Ruiz is done, Byrd is a lil *****, and Brewster and Toney dont even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Vitali.....

[The Pretender]

Klitschko is the best HW, I cant wait tll September when hes gonna kill Hasim the asscrack Rahman then all ya haters will shut up.... Keep an eye out for his bro too and my man Nick the slick Valuev, yall cant stop them, Ruiz is done, Byrd is a lil *****, and Brewster and Toney dont even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Vitali.....

Vitali keeps ducking Ruiz assmunch.

[Bozo_no no]

vitlai can sell mroe tickets with just him fighting then ruiz,byrd,lamon all can when those 3 are on the same card. hell didnt vitali vs danny sell more then ruiz,byrd,golota,holy,donald king ppv?

Vitali vs Williams was a farce, and a PPV disaster. You have no idea what you're talking about.

HBO origionally tried to say it did 150K PPV buys, and lost money at that. It later came out that it did about 75K at best.

[!! Mr. Soprano]

Klitschko is the best HW, I cant wait tll September when hes gonna kill Hasim the asscrack Rahman then all ya haters will shut up.... Keep an eye out for his bro too and my man Nick the slick Valuev, yall cant stop them, Ruiz is done, Byrd is a lil *****, and Brewster and Toney dont even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Vitali.....

Just when I was about to say there are no haters here as Bozo_No_No didn't show up yet.. and there he is.
LOL

Good posts everyone!