Comments Thread For: Sosnowksi Talks Klitschko Fight, Training Camp, More

[ChopperRead]

Zuri Lawrence is actually a clever, technically skilled, seasoned boxer. He's been in with many good heavyweights. The fight with Sosnowski should have been a draw, I remember watching it live and posting in a round-by-round thread here at boxingscene. I said during the fight the New York judges wouldn't be fair to Sosnowski, and sure enough they were not.

You have repeatedly make a fool of yourself with your irrational hatred for Vitali.

People are making too much out of the Lawrence fight. We can all
count on two things with Sosnowski:

1. He will show up in tremendous shape, unlike many recent Klitschko
opponents.

2. He has too much Polish pride to do anything but slug it out with Vitali.
No running and hiding, no crying in the ring if he loses, either.

[ChopperRead]

3 of those four opponents were ranked by Ring Magazine top 10. Please show me a fighter not named Klitschko in any weight division that has done that coming off a retirement. Vitali is a credit to the sport, deal with it. He fights often and against the best oppostion AVAILABLE.

The Klitschkos get the same rap Marciano got and still gets: that they fight old men and "tomato cans." In both cases, they fought/fight the best people out there, so what else can they do? The heavyweight division usually has a fair share of stiffs and older guys looking for glory and a big payday one more time hanging around (see: James Toney, Shannon Briggs). Nothing new. The 1970s were an aberration that raised people's expectations unrealisitically.

[BritishBoxing92]

Albert Sosnowski (45-2-1, 27 KO) who will face WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KO) on May 29 in Gelsenkirchen, has finished his camp in Zakopane. While his Ukrainian opponent has started his serious training in Austria, the Polish heavyweight continually trains his strength and stamina, this time in Warsaw. Being interviewed by BoxingScene.com/bokser.org, Sosnowski spoke about a few significant aspects connected with his preparations and further plans concerning the biggest fight in his professional career. [Click Here To Read More]

this Sosonowski guy ought to have more self confidence if hes is going to fight vitali for the WBC Heavyweight Championship

[Tiozzo]

Zuri Lawrence is actually a clever, technically skilled, seasoned boxer. He's been in with many good heavyweights. The fight with Sosnowski should have been a draw, I remember watching it live and posting in a round-by-round thread here at boxingscene. I said during the fight the New York judges wouldn't be fair to Sosnowski, and sure enough they were not.

You have repeatedly make a fool of yourself with your irrational hatred for Vitali.

You scored that fight a draw and you wonder if I'm ******ed ? Pretty ironic.

Lawrence is technically sound, I agree, and he has fought good fighters (and lost to most of them, 8 times out of 15 by KO). But to say he fought to a draw against Sosnowski is just crazy. Zuri had an easy yet effective strategy : throw a comination at Albert, than grab him. He did that all night long, and Albert had no answer to it. Zuri decisively beat Albert, period.

I don't have hatred for Vitali, I have hatred for the people out there who thinks this man has achieved something when he has obviously not. I have made fools out of the people who nuthug Vitali a whole lot more than I have made a fool out of myself. When the greatest feature of your whole career is HAVING LOST to a great HW, it says it all (Vitali himself acknowledges that this is his greatest achievement, having lost to Lewis).

[Tiozzo]

The Klitschkos get the same rap Marciano got and still gets: that they fight old men and "tomato cans." In both cases, they fought/fight the best people out there, so what else can they do? The heavyweight division usually has a fair share of stiffs and older guys looking for glory and a big payday one more time hanging around (see: James Toney, Shannon Briggs). Nothing new. The 1970s were an aberration that raised people's expectations unrealisitically.

Thats what I have always been saying : they fight the best opposition out there, but the thing is, the best opposition out there sucks for the most part, so even if Vitali fights the best opposition out there, if those men happen to suck a whole lot, I don't have to give him credit for lining up and beating all those tomato cans, cab drivers. BTW, Wladimir has fought much better opposition than Vitali has.

[Tiozzo]

3 of those four opponents were ranked by Ring Magazine top 10. Please show me a fighter not named Klitschko in any weight division that has done that coming off a retirement. Vitali is a credit to the sport, deal with it. He fights often and against the best oppostion AVAILABLE.

It really doesn't matter how those men ranked, because they were all hyped up losers, and untested, or shot like Peter, or too small like Gomez. Vitali is by no means a credit to the sport, he's just a credit to himself since he makes millions fighting tomato cans. That's impressive.

[paul750]

Gomez isn't that small. He's a good 6'3'' with a long reach. He was just past his best. Years past it.

[Tiozzo]

Gomez isn't that small. He's a good 6'3'' with a long reach. He was just past his best. Years past it.

Right, he was past his best more than anything, I agree.