Comments Thread For: Odlanier Solis To Possibly Return in October, Eyes Vitali

[The Hammer]

Klitschkos are the only Eastern Euro Heavyweights worth a damn and they are *****es the rest are bums you produced ibrimagov who looks like Barney Rubble and Valuev the missing link

There's LOTS of good heavyweights from Eastern Europe: Boytsov, Glazkov, Pulev, the Klitschkos, Sultan, etc.

What do you call the ones who keep losing to the Klitschkos and the others: Solis, Peter, Guinn (to Pulev), Rahman, Brock, Gomez, Johnson, Briggs, Chambers, Thompson, etc?

[jimmy1569]

We'll never hear the end of this garbage....

I've never suffered the kind of knee injury Solis has. However, I've had a couple of joint injuries over the years. They take forever to heal. Even if he's able to move around by year's end, Solis will feel pain for some time. Forget Vitali; he'll be retired by the time Solis is ready to fight again, if "SpongeBob" ever does fight again.

Vitali will be there..he ain't going nowhere being this dominant & making 15 mil a fight...let your boy heal & come back for seconds. HE'LL REVISIT that hospital in no time & this time vITALI won't make it short & sweet.

[CubanGuyNYC]

Vitali will be there..he ain't going nowhere being this dominant & making 15 mil a fight...let your boy heal & come back for seconds. HE'LL REVISIT that hospital in no time & this time vITALI won't make it short & sweet.

Where in my post did it sound like I thought Solis was my "boy"? When I referred to him as "SpongeBob"?

Vitali will be approximately forty-one when/if Solis's injury heals sufficiently for him to train. After his dreadful showing, "SpongeBob" will have to score at least a couple of smashing victories before anyone ever considers him again for a title shot. By then, Vitali will be closer to forty-three. From what I understand, Vitali isn't looking to fight indefinitely; and he isn't likely to stick around much longer. Given the circumstances, it doesn't appear likely that Solis and Vitali will ever meet again in the ring.

[The Hammer]

Vitali said a few days after the Solis fight he will probably just have two or three more fights before retiring.

So Lyakhovich or someone else on June 4, Adamek in September, and possibly Dimitrenko or someone else in the winter of 2011-2012. Then, he'll likely retire.

[SluggerFan]

If Vitali grants Solis a rematch, Solis should fight for free. He already got paid a boat load of cash for 2:59 of work and who in their right mind is going to pay top dollar to see these two 'tango' again.

[Die Antwoord]

This is the same type of knee injury (at least thats been reported) that Carson Palmer had 2 years ago. It took him a year before he was even ready to start working out again and another year before he was even 90% and he never was 100% again. Solis I take it has never been seriously injured before and as a person who has been in those shoes I feel for him.

I dont think Solis is a ***** or anything. i think he was a guy who eats too much, has a ton of skill and confidence, but who was dealt a surprising blow to the temple, had little to no experience taking a top tier HW's punch without head gear on, and his body overreacted to the shot and his knee buckled on the way down. He never really had been checked like that, in the amateurs that punch would have slid off the head gear, and in his previous 17 fights he never was really hit much by a live body.

That being said, I think like many athletes who are hurt for the first time they assume they are immortal. They assume that they can tough anything out and the harder they work, the faster they heal. He has a world of hurt ahead of him if his injury is at all what was reported. It will be a painful, frustrating recovery. I don't see him in the ring within at least a year, and even then itll take about another year before he is ready to step up in class. Solis needs to be worrying about his career right now, not his next fight.

Herbie Hide was beatng Vitali before Vit knocked him out in the second...you never heard HIde whining. Solis just needs to deal with the fact he lost and hopefully look inside to the reasons why it wasnt a contest.

[ChopperRead]

Quit whining, Spongebob, you already wasted Vitali's time enough.

Go beat Boytsov or Helenius and then tell us you want another title shot.

[paulf]

I respect that he acknowledges the fans deserve more than what he gave them, but he isn't the one putting the fight on. K2 would still get a site fee ad tv money, so they'd bank even without charging admission, but its still completely unrealistic. Anyway, I'm glad Solis is staying determined. He should fight chris arreola or denis boystov when he returns and get back on the path to Klitschko.

[Spray_resistant]

VK will be gone by the time he has healed, had a tuneup, and beaten 1 or 2 decent fighters to earn a shot at VK again.

[PRBOXINGCOTTO]

Solis vitali will be fighting adamek or valueve by that time you lost your chance