Comments Thread For: Klitschko Not Concerned That Joshua Was Ex-Sparring Partner

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

In 2014 the two sparred 20 rounds together at Klitschko's training base in Austria, when Joshua remained an inexperienced professional, but the Briton is a keen student of the sport and will have learnt much from observing one of the finest heavyweight champions in history.
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[Madison Boxing]

robot doesnt sound too confident to me, entertaining the thought of losing 'ill congratulate him if he wins' and its never a good a sign when fighters start bigging up their opponents before the fight, as if it excuses them if it lose cause they lost to such a great fighter.

[LacedUp]

Joshua was never "Klitschko's sparring partner". He came over in the camp to learn etc, but he was never reduced to traditional sparring partner.

[The plunger man]

Joshua is the smaller fighter ? Lol GTFOH BOXING SCENE REPORTER

[Ray Corso]

When a young fighter gets a chance to get into a champions or high contenders camp they do it!
Their managers and trainers must guard against the amount of time spent and how the sessions are run.
When getting into shape the sessions are more about pace and building up stamina, they are not pressure situations.
I've had many champions come to my gym back in my day and the sessions were talked about as to what was going to happen.
What I've read and seen about Wlad was that he worked accordingly with his partners, no abuse or taking advantage. If you have guys that are giving you good work you respect them, especially heavyweights because good work is hard to find.

Ray

[Travycat]

Love Joshua, but still think this fight is too early for him. Even at Wladimir's age, he has an insanely high boxing IQ, and with KO power, as well.

[Earl-Hickey]

Joshua is the smaller fighter ? Lol GTFOH BOXING SCENE REPORTER

Yeah I was confused by that. They are both 247lb.

Klitschko looks a fraction taller in most pictures but then he did against tyson fury until they got in the ring.

He wears lifts on his shoes to look taller to try gain a psychological edge but everyone is wise to it now.