Klitschko and Briggs meet in press conference, Vitali looks scared

[FloydTBE]

Vitali doesn't look at all scared, he appears to be in control.

WIll be over in 5 rounds

[The Hammer]

Here's another article by Dave Lahr - the man is the most foolish Klitschko hater I've run across:

Vitali Klitschko has angered Shannon Briggs and now he’s going to get knocked out

September 27th, 2010

By Dave Lahr: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (40-2, 38 KO’s) really stepped in it when he made some comments about Shannon Briggs and his asthma condition. The comment got Briggs’ kettle to a boiling and now he really wants to knock Vitali out like no tomorrow. If you thought Vitali had it bad before, he’s really got a backside kicking coming to him for opening his trap about Briggs’ breathing problems. Briggs sent out a press release today, saying “I am now personally dedicating my knockout punch to the sufferers of asthma worldwide that Vitali has offended. I plan on being a three-time world champion who respects people and their challenges.”


I can hear where Briggs is coming from and I hope he knocks Klitschko out when he meets up with him next month on October 16th, at the O2 World Arena, Altona, in Hamburg, Germany. Asthma condition aside, Klitschko is facing someone with power that he hasn’t in long, long time.

The last time Klitschko faced someone that can punch like Briggs was when he almost had his face torn clean off by Lennox Lewis seven years ago in 2003. Klitschko lost that fight by a 6th round stoppage and looked like Frankenstein by the time the referee stepped in to save him from being officially knocked out. Briggs not has the power, but he has the size and the hand speed to go along with it. Whatever he hits, he’s going to tear and possibly break.

I’d be surprised if Klitschko makes it to the 6th round, because he’s older now and has much slower reflexes compared to seven years ago when Lewis did him. Klitschko is going to come out throwing his lazy jabs and left hooks and is immediately going to get met with overhand rights and heat seeking left hooks.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Briggs takes him out immediately in the 1st round after staging him with a big shot. But most likely, Briggs will start to rip Klitschko’s face apart piece by piece and have him bleeding badly as the fight progresses towards the fifth and 6th rounds. By then, I see Briggs either stopping Vitali with a howitzer cannon shot or having him bleeding so badly that the referee will have to step in to save Vitali from bleeding too much. It’s going to look bad. It would be better for Vitali if he gets stopped with a single shot rather than having Briggs cut him to pieces with lancing shots to the head.

[The Hammer]

Here's another one from this ridiculous hater:

Klitschko clinches his way to victory over Peter

September 12th, 2010

By Dave Lahr: Just as I expected, IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) was able to clinch as often as he pleased on Saturday night in defeating former World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Samuel Peter (34-4, 27 KO’s) by a 10th round TKO while fighting in front of a large pro-Klitschko German crowd at the Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany. Averaging around 10 clinches per round, Wladimir did a beautiful job of keeping Peter tied up and unable to throw his massive power shots. I haven’t seen clinching display like this since Wladimir’s first victory over Peter give years ago. That ugly display of clinching was a life saver for Wladimir in this fight.

The referee stood idly by, letting Klitschko clinch as often as he pleased without taking points off for the excessive holding. Peter, who at 6’1” couldn’t exactly fight 6’6” Wladimir from the outside due to his limited reach, was then limited to landing an occasional wild shot. Peter could have done so much more had he let his hands go while he had Wladimir d****d all over him during the many times that Peter was clinches by the giant Ukrainian.

However, Peter was too much of a nice guy and just accepted the numerous clinches without complaint without tearing into Wladimir. If this was Corrie Sanders, he would have cleaned Wladimir’s clock with short left hands every time Wladimir elected to clinch. This is essentially what happened in Wladimir’s knockout loss to Sanders in 2003. Wladimir tried to clinch Sanders and the South African was having none of it and immediately belted Wladimir with a short right hand while Wladimir at close range. The punch knocked Wladimir and almost unconscious.

Peter should have followed Sander’s blue print and unloaded on Wladimir each time he was grabbed by him. Peter didn’t and deserved to lose the fight. If the referee is going to allow a fighter to get away with bending the rules, then it’s necessary for one to fight back as best as you can. In this case, Peter wouldn’t have been doing anything out of bounds had he worked while Wladimir was holding onto him.

The referee told Peter countless times that his hands were free, and practically begged Peter to throw punches while he was being clinched. It’s too bad because this is something that Peter should have trained for before the fight. He looked like he wasn’t expecting Wladimir to clinch him at all, because he had no answer for the constant clinching from him.

As for the stoppage in the 10th round, Peter was more tired than hurt. His right eye was almost closed from Wladimir’s jabs and he just didn’t have the energy to fight hard anymore. Wladimir then opened up with a flurry of shots with most of them missing. However, enough of them connected for Peter to be in trouble.

Peter went down more from having been bumped by the referee, who had jumped in to stop Wladimir from punching, then from Wladimir’s shots. The fight was stopped immediately and thus Peter never even got the chance to try and get up from the knockdown.

Overall, I wasn’t impressed with Wladmir’s win. If the referee had been doing his job and no allowing the clinching, the fight would have been much different. And if Peter had fought Wladimir while being held onto, I think Peter would have knocked Wladimir out. Peter needs to work on this flaw in his game because his future opponents will probably look at this fight and try to do the same thing against him by clinching 10+ times per round to keep Peter from throwing his shots.

I think Wladimir will be knocked out when he fights WBA heavyweight champion David Haye because he knows how to fight in close and he doesn’t allow his opponents to clinch him without making them pay. Haye would have knocked Wladimir out last Saturday night and he’s lucky he wasn’t fight him instead of Peter.

[Steelhammer2011]

Dave Lahr is just another ******ed Klitschko hater. Don't take anything he says seriously.

Vitali won the staredown. Briggs is scared.

[VatoMulatto]

Shannon is washed up and doesn't have the stamina nor the defence to go 12 rounds with Vitali. Against Wlad he'd at least have a punchers chance. Briggs have some power but unless Vitali get's old in the ring and Briggs lands a huge perfect punch right on the chin that Vitali doesn't see coming I can't see Briggs stay on his feet all that long.

Shannon's only chance is to jump right on Vitali and try to get him out of there in the first round.

Vitali should win by KO in round 4.

[jrosales13]

Dave Lahr is just another ******ed Klitschko hater. Don't take anything he says seriously.

Vitali won the staredown. Briggs is scared.

So not only does Briggs not have a chance to win. But, also doesn't have any confidence in himself as he is the scared.

Well, what a great potention fight this is going to be

Pathetic fight.

[PainKiller]

Vit is never scared, he knows that Briggs can't being nothing by just seeing his fights, but he didn't dominate the stare down IMO. It was evens.

I think Vitali actually like Briggs and vice versa. Both are good guys