The Secret To Beating Vitali Klitschko.

[hollister]

Toney could be vitali if he is in great shape and uses his reflexes to frustate him. In the Williams fight Vitali was visibly tired in the mid rounds if he gets tired like that against James he will be in big trouble. If it goes beyond 5 toney otherwise Vitali wins by KO.

Look more closely at VK when he fights, he ALWAYS looks gassed. To me, he looked gassed through the middle of the williams fight, but in round 8, he came out and basically looked like he did in the first round again. I think he just breathes through his mouth out of habit, they both do, and he punches with half his strength to conserve energy, but make no mistake, he'll go twelve if he has to, and Toney has stamina issues of his own to worry about.

[paulmmv]

your may be right the only thing is vitali is so tall and his reach is so good its makes him very hard to hit

[Pno]

Look more closely at VK when he fights, he ALWAYS looks gassed. To me, he looked gassed through the middle of the williams fight, but in round 8, he came out and basically looked like he did in the first round again. I think he just breathes through his mouth out of habit, they both do, and he punches with half his strength to conserve energy, but make no mistake, he'll go twelve if he has to, and Toney has stamina issues of his own to worry about.

I was just noticing that about WK the other day when watching the fight between Byrd and WK.. he had his mouth open for like 75% of the fight..
but the commentators like to mention it.

[Dark Destroyer]

The way to beat Vitali is by having a 6'5 body and weighing about 220lbs and slug it out with him. Lennox didn't look pretty against Vitali because you cannot out jab a man that big. Those big shots count. Look how Corrie Sanders scared the **** out of him when he hit him with one left hand. Corrie had a hard punch but i think to how hard he hit was all myth. Sometimes it's easy to be scared of the hype in the fight than the actual fighter.

[BrooklynBomber]

The way to beat Vitali is by having a 6'5 body and weighing about 220lbs and slug it out with him. Lennox didn't look pretty against Vitali because you cannot out jab a man that big. Those big shots count. Look how Corrie Sanders scared the **** out of him when he hit him with one left hand. Corrie had a hard punch but i think to how hard he hit was all myth. Sometimes it's easy to be scared of the hype in the fight than the actual fighter.

With all due respect but this post is very unintellegent. Since when avoiding punches and fighting a smart fight is being *****. In boxing most of the specialist measure your skill not by how hard you hit and how well you take a punches but by how well you can avoid being punched. And avoiding punches of Corrie Sanders is in fact was very reasonable.

[Dark Destroyer]

With all due respect but this post is very unintellegent. Since when avoiding punches and fighting a smart fight is being *****.

With all due respect this post hasn't grasped what my post was stating AT ALL. When did i say he's being a *****? I said that he scared him which he did with his power. Been scared is NOT been a *****. I also basically said that i don't think Corrie hits as hard as he is rumoured to.

[jedihillis]

Was Lewis supposed to have this amazing jab? Wasen't really enough to stop him for good. And, Vitali can take a shot. He had some big bombs dropped on him by Corrie sanders.

[hollister]

Corrie does have excellent power, but it comes mostly from his handspeed. When he hurt Wlad the first time, he caught him leaning foreward, and just never let him recuperate. That, coupled with Wlad's inability to see how hurt he was, and run or hold instead if trying to slug his way out of it at the end let Corrie have his way. And I think the only ones that would have a shot at it would be Corrie or Byrd, if only he had a punch lol, because they're the only ones with the speed to get close to him, but that's not saying they'll ever beat him lol.

[Torino]

I have posted before that to beat Vitali you have to beat him at his own game. Keep sticking the "jab" and set up power shots. The thing is, you have to have an equal or greater height / reach ratio for this to work. Not many Boxers are taller than Vitali

A puncher will always have a chance against Vitali, he is human.
Having said that, he does have an underated defense and a solid chin.

Don't be surprised if he's around for a while

[torvix2000]

i dont really agree with that. tyson has a short reach and he was very effective with his jab back in '88 when he was good.

Perhaps Tyson has tremendous speed way back then.

But if you're shorter than Vitali and at the same time only as fast as him... then the hell... your jabs won't be effective. In fact, you may eat more leather jabbing than if you simply try to outbalance him and throw your power shots.