Comments Thread For: Klitschko Drops Povetkin Four Times, Wins Decision

[MDPopescu]

Anything done in a boxing ring that's regarded as "illegal" is attended to by the referee. He stops and eventually cautions and then takes a point. This tactic has been used since time immemorial.

This reminds me about the "old school"... the true "old school"... Dempsey, for instance...

[edgarg]

Did he fuck drop him 4 times. 2, possibly 3, were pushes.

What difference does it make. Nobody objected when the same thing happened to Klitschko in the first Peter fight, or that Sanders dropped him with a combination of fist and head arriving at the same time.

This is the very first time in all my experience that I have seen a score of 119-104. That means that Klitschko won every round and lost a point. All credit to Povetkin that he was able to keep his aggressive attitude right through the fight and keep trying. Klitschko was fighting in a hostile environment and did a great job.

[hitking]

As horrid as that performance was no. Wilder should be castrated for strangling and punching a woman like the trash he is. That glass jawed joke is Michael Grant 2.0 without the technique.

I'm not the moral policeman many portray themselves as online. Therefore I don't give a **** what Wilder, or any other fighter does outside of the 2-3hrs I see them in the ring yearly.

BTW, how did Michael Grant do in the Olympics he competed in?

[Leonf96]

The ref was terrible. Then again he's puerto rican. Must have a "******** problem"

[Ivansmamma]

[SIZE="3"]Vitali would disagree with your short-mexican-machismo, armchair warrior sentiment. It's all about the W, and styles just didn't make the fight today.[SIZE=[/SIZE]

Do you think wlad is proud of winning that way? I remember a manny steward interview where he claimed wlad had told him something like "i wish i could fight and not just box", maybe it was from the klitschko documentary from a while back.
He more then bends the rules, his fans dont like it, people who watch it dosen't like it and he won't get respected for it but he still does it. So maybe he should take a few risks because thoose are the fighters that get respected and liked. People dont ask for him to go out and swing for the fences but atleast try to follow the rules and punch more then clinch. He dosent have to fight like froch but he could try to fight without totally relaying on hanging over his opponent for half the fight.

[edgarg]

How the **** does Klitschko get away with all those dirty, dirty tactics?! He deserved to lose at least another point for the insane amount of holding, pushing down on the neck, elbows, and blindside uppercuts on the inside while holding povetkin's head down. Most other fighters would probably've been disqualified for pulling that kind of **** continually but because of the appalling referee and the fact that it's wladimir doing it that somehow makes it ok. Didn't realize why people bagged on Klitschko so much but now I understand it completely.

Hopkins has been doing the very same sort of things only far worse with his extra"little touches'. No ref has ever said or done anything to him. So the whole matter is that a fighter can do whatever he wants to do and it's up to the ref to deal with it. Leaning is the only action that Klitschko does which might be called illegal-and the ref controls that.

Otherwise he's just about the cleanest fighter in the business today.

What else Klitschko did was perfectly legal. Over 60 fights and still going strong...even stronger it seems because Povetkin being a solid, experienced champion, was on of the better opponents he has faced.

[cupocity303]

Thaty **** is not legal. Some fighters are just allowed to get away with it. Just like Floyd using his elbows or how Roy Jones used to benf below his opponents' waist. Either way, Wladimir is excessive with that bull**** and without doing it, he'd likely have his china chin cracked like it was against Saunders and Brewster.

That last sentence incorrect and more angry emotion than fair analysis. He uses a lot more for defense than holding. Like standing tall and backing up just enough that his opponent hits his shoulder or arm.

Newsflash: Very tall opponts don't fight on the inside with smaller, aggressive opponents. Their long arms put them at a disadvantage on the inside anyway. Wlad doesn't usually clinch to this degree. Today, styles just didn't make fights.

[Superflo777]

Obviously, this was an utter domination of Klitschko, and Povetkin didn't really stand any chance to win after the first round or so. Having said that, I, even as a Klitschko fan, found Wlad's holding and leaning extremely ******, shameful and embarrassing in this fight. Povetkin was a DEAD MAN WALKING in the 7th and Wlad could have easily finished him with just one more of his right hands, but instead he was holding and LEANING onto Povetkin as if he was the one losing the fight and getting KO'd, even prolonging the fight to a decision. It was very uncomfortable to watch and didn't look good in any sense. Wlad did a much better job in the Wach fight, and while Wach was a granite chin steroid freak, he could've finished Povetkin so easily so many times, it's really shameful.

[Tay Roc]

The back of Povetkin's neck took the most damage. That part of his body was red as **** lol

[edgarg]

Its not just the clinching tho. Its the pushing down as well. Its a crap tactic which has no place in boxing. Its really not fair for a man about 30lbs heavier to be able to push down on a smaller guy. Do u know what that does to a person's legs?

As well as tiring the opponent out if he continues doing it, it's supposed to doiourage the opponent from getting in as close as he wants to. Klitschko prefers to keep his opponent at the end of his jabs and crosses, and this is his way of doing it. A very good tactic, and if it weren't that Klitschko is unpopular, we'd hear no more about it than a measured criticism, not the outbreaks I've been reading.