Originally posted by El-blanco
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"Wlad got old overnight" putting this BS to bed
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Fury's style made Wlad look bad. I'd still favour Wlad over 99% of other Heavyweights. However Wlad had a lot of personal problems leading up to the fight so I'm curious to see how the second fight will go. I was one of few to pick Fury and I doubled my points by betting on him. Many posters called me crazy but you know...I got my congrats
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Originally posted by Salim_Shady View PostFury's style made Wlad look bad. I'd still favour Wlad over 99% of other Heavyweights. However Wlad had a lot of personal problems leading up to the fight so I'm curious to see how the second fight will go. I was one of few to pick Fury and I doubled my points by betting on him. Many posters called me crazy but you know...I got my congrats
Personally I believe it's total BS, but will be interesting.
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Originally posted by LacedUp View PostSo you don't agree that Wlad didn't commit and didn't pull the trigger in 2008 against Ibragimov?
Then what exactly did he do?
Klitschko (like Jones) has always been sorta gunshy (in Wlad's case, since the KO losses) but I thought I saw the first signs of age against Povetkin.
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Originally posted by IMDAZED View PostI said he's been old for a while but I wouldn't go as far back as 2008 just because he barely threw against Ibragimov no more than I would say Roy Jones was old in 1996 because he barely threw against Montell Griffin the first time.
Klitschko (like Jones) has always been sorta gunshy (in Wlad's case, since the KO losses) but I thought I saw the first signs of age against Povetkin.
There's absolutely no question that Wlad isn't in his prime and hasn't been for a couple of years.
But him being gunshy and not pulling the trigger has been a regular occurrence throughout his career - That's the point of this thread. That his low punch output is not a direct result of him just getting old.
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Originally posted by Motorcity Cobra View PostGermany passed a law in late 2014 making PED use punishable a criminal offense.
Mind you this is a guy who demanded drug testing for Pulev, yet didn't do it himself before after the fight.
Shady.
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Originally posted by LacedUp View PostI agree with the last comment. The Povetkin fight definitely also showed to me that he was getting older. Feet were a lot slower. I would say that his speed of foot looked better in the Fury fight than in the Povetkin fight.
There's absolutely no question that Wlad isn't in his prime and hasn't been for a couple of years.
But him being gunshy and not pulling the trigger has been a regular occurrence throughout his career - That's the point of this thread. That his low punch output is not a direct result of him just getting old.
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Originally posted by LacedUp View PostThere's definitely also something to this. Didn't they also have drug testing for the povetkin and jennings fight?
Mind you this is a guy who demanded drug testing for Pulev, yet didn't do it himself before after the fight.
Shady.
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