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With Wladimir Klitschko's win over Samuel "The Nigerian Nightmare" Peter, look for thousands of articles on both sides of the isle on him for the next couple weeks, if not longer. The so called apologist will claim Wladimir is better than Lewis, Holmes, Holyfield and Tyson, which he isn't.
The so called haters will say he's a stiff and proved nothing against an inexperienced media creation, and they're wrong. I know one thing, had Mike Tyson got up three times to beat Peter, today he'd be talked about in terms of being the ultimate warrior.
Today media and fan bias is so polarizing it's outright ugly. Two weeks ago I got an e-mail from some genius regarding something I wrote on the Hagler-Leonard fight. In the article I said Leonard out-thought and out-fought Hagler. I questioned what message Hagler thought Leonard was sending when he stipulated - He wanted the fight 12 rounds instead of 15 - a twenty foot ring - and 10 ounce gloves instead of 8. I know how I interpreted it, which means Hagler should've seen right through it. Simply put, Leonard was telling Hagler, this will not be a rerun of you and Thomas Hearns. [details]
The so called haters will say he's a stiff and proved nothing against an inexperienced media creation, and they're wrong. I know one thing, had Mike Tyson got up three times to beat Peter, today he'd be talked about in terms of being the ultimate warrior.
Today media and fan bias is so polarizing it's outright ugly. Two weeks ago I got an e-mail from some genius regarding something I wrote on the Hagler-Leonard fight. In the article I said Leonard out-thought and out-fought Hagler. I questioned what message Hagler thought Leonard was sending when he stipulated - He wanted the fight 12 rounds instead of 15 - a twenty foot ring - and 10 ounce gloves instead of 8. I know how I interpreted it, which means Hagler should've seen right through it. Simply put, Leonard was telling Hagler, this will not be a rerun of you and Thomas Hearns. [details]
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