... Liakovich Won

[Nautilus]

... Sergei has really done great .....

[!!Captain]

Great fight, Liakhovich vs. Wlad is going to be huge.

[enadeus]

Great fight, Liakhovich vs. Wlad is going to be huge.

Unification hopefully if Wlad doesn't disapoint us against Byrd.

[Kid Achilles]

Unification. Almost has a magic ring to it now. It's what the heavyweight division is desperately in need of.

[the_truth_1984]

I'm not going to lie I was very surprised he won.Good for Liakhovich.

[mECHsLAVE]

Well, I said he could outbox Brewster, but I didn't think King would allow him to get a decision, especially in Cleveland. So I was right and wrong.

Great back-and-forth fight, though.

So now that Brewster has fallen down the rankings, that means the winner of Wlad-Byrd is the #1 HW in the world.

[JDizzle79]

as it should be. Wlad is the best heavyweight...its just he has a suspect chin in a weight-class where that doesn't really help him out at all

[Derranged]

There aint gonna be unification. No way is King gonna let Brewster out of the picture that easily because he knows Lamon has the best chance of beating Wlad. A rematch will be made and King will just hope Brewster wins.

[spinksjinx]

Where is everyone getting these unification assumptions? The current picture runs like this

WBC-Rahman is ordered to fight Maskaev and then Toney
WBA-Valuev is fighting who? Owen Beck
IBF-Chris Byrd is fighting Wladimir and then that fighter has to fight Ray Austin and I am sure their is a rematch clause for Byrd/Wladimir
WBO-Sergei has rematch w/ Brewster

We are already into April a Unification fight couldnt even possibly occur until 2007 especially at the rate most fighters fight which ranges between 3-6 months with most heavies taking the 6 month rest.

[spinksjinx]

Well, I said he could outbox Brewster, but I didn't think King would allow him to get a decision, especially in Cleveland. So I was right and wrong.

Great back-and-forth fight, though.

So now that Brewster has fallen down the rankings, that means the winner of Wlad-Byrd is the #1 HW in the world.

Technically Valuev is

Lennox lost to Rahman last
Rahman lost to Ruiz
Ruiz lost to Valuev (of course Toney could have been if he didnt get suspended)

Heavyweight division looks sadder than it did 6 months ago.