Originally posted by LacedUp
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You overrate both Eubank and Benn for some reason. Eubank wasn't shot at age 27, he just was never all that good. He didn't look any different against Collins than he did against Benn.
You say Eubank was shot at age 27 while anybody who says Klitschko is shot at age 40 is "******". It seems you are making an excuse for Eubank's losses to Collins, who you consider inferior. At the same time, because you are a Fury fan, you deny that Klitschko is a shot fighter so as to elevate Fury.
Klitschko has been through 20 years of grueling training camps where he pushes himself to the limit, which included many hundreds of hours of sparring. He had many amateur fights before that. A human body can take only so much. Also, Klitschko was brutally stopped three times.
I've watched all of Klitschko's fights, and it's been obvious to me he's slowing down for years. He's come to rely more and more on clinching and fighting at a distance, because he's not nearly as quick anymore. He still has power, but all his other skills have eroded.
He's looked old and faded in recent fights, but the first fight he looked completely shot is the Fury fight. Klitschko just can't get the punches off anymore, not even against a big target like Fury.
There's actually a big difference in the current shot age 40 version of Klitschko and the faster prime version. Here's the younger Klitschko:
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