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That doesn't explain comments like this:
"...this is the most disgusting piece I've ever read. So biased and foolish. I'm about to puke all over my computer."
Lyle is a bit of a Floyd fanboy but he isn't really a Klitschko fanboy, and you got his article way out of proportion.
That's true.
I said he hasn't clearly lost a round for several years. I bet you can't name a round in the last four years that he clearly lost. And although in most of those fights, at least some of the judges gave his opponents between one and three rounds, I bet if you could analyse their full scorecards, you'd find they disagreed with each other about which round(s) he lost - because he didn't clearly lose any.
Only slightly. And Holmes was fortunate enough to reach his prime at a time when some excellent fighters were still around. Once he'd beaten them, there was a very long period when the competition was as dire as today's. Wlad was a late developer, and by the time he became an elite fighter, there was only Byrd and an extremely old Holyfield, and a shot Toney left from the old guard (and Holy blew his chance of a shot by being easily beaten by Ibragimov, Toney by losing badly to Peter in the rematch).
Not as many as ten, and most of them were either at the very start or end of his reign, or were Light Heavyweights. There was a very long period when his competition was dire. Plus some of the Hall of Famers he beat were not actually great fighters - e.g. Max Baer, Jack Sharkey, Max Schmeling.
One problem now is that if a potential (in terms of ability) Hall of Famer turns pro now, he's likely to end up fighting Wlad while he's still green, get a bad beating, and never be the same again. That makes it hard to see how a great Heavyweight is going to come along who can test him until Wlad starts to decline a bit.
That said, I don't know what's gone wrong with Solis - lots of talent, but he's throwing it all away (or should I say eating it all away?).
Yes, but that isn't his fault, and you have to also take the extent and length of his dominance, and his ability, and improvement in recent years, and the fact that he has always fought the highest level of competition available to him, into account when assessing his historical status.
Agreed.
Maybe, but it was a combination of great anticipation and timing, and surprisingly good handspeed, that nullified Chambers' speed. Wlad's handspeed is under-rated by many. And his ability to nullify speed with a combination of anticipation, timing and handspeed of his own is hugely under-estimated, especially by Haye nuthuggers, which includes pretty well every single British boxing journalist.
"...this is the most disgusting piece I've ever read. So biased and foolish. I'm about to puke all over my computer."
Lyle is a bit of a Floyd fanboy but he isn't really a Klitschko fanboy, and you got his article way out of proportion.
That's true.
I said he hasn't clearly lost a round for several years. I bet you can't name a round in the last four years that he clearly lost. And although in most of those fights, at least some of the judges gave his opponents between one and three rounds, I bet if you could analyse their full scorecards, you'd find they disagreed with each other about which round(s) he lost - because he didn't clearly lose any.
Only slightly. And Holmes was fortunate enough to reach his prime at a time when some excellent fighters were still around. Once he'd beaten them, there was a very long period when the competition was as dire as today's. Wlad was a late developer, and by the time he became an elite fighter, there was only Byrd and an extremely old Holyfield, and a shot Toney left from the old guard (and Holy blew his chance of a shot by being easily beaten by Ibragimov, Toney by losing badly to Peter in the rematch).
Not as many as ten, and most of them were either at the very start or end of his reign, or were Light Heavyweights. There was a very long period when his competition was dire. Plus some of the Hall of Famers he beat were not actually great fighters - e.g. Max Baer, Jack Sharkey, Max Schmeling.
One problem now is that if a potential (in terms of ability) Hall of Famer turns pro now, he's likely to end up fighting Wlad while he's still green, get a bad beating, and never be the same again. That makes it hard to see how a great Heavyweight is going to come along who can test him until Wlad starts to decline a bit.
That said, I don't know what's gone wrong with Solis - lots of talent, but he's throwing it all away (or should I say eating it all away?).
Yes, but that isn't his fault, and you have to also take the extent and length of his dominance, and his ability, and improvement in recent years, and the fact that he has always fought the highest level of competition available to him, into account when assessing his historical status.
Agreed.
Maybe, but it was a combination of great anticipation and timing, and surprisingly good handspeed, that nullified Chambers' speed. Wlad's handspeed is under-rated by many. And his ability to nullify speed with a combination of anticipation, timing and handspeed of his own is hugely under-estimated, especially by Haye nuthuggers, which includes pretty well every single British boxing journalist.
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