Comments Thread For: Vitali Klitschko: I Blame Myself For Wladimir's Loss To Joshua

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Former world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko is blaming himself for the April TKO loss that was suffered by his younger brother, Wladimir Klitschko, at the hands of Anthony Joshua. Before a crowd of 90,000 fans at Wembley, Joshua stopped Wladimir in the eleventh round to unify the WBA, IBO, IBF heavyweight titles.
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[Tony Trick-Pony]

It wasn't terrible advice, but I think he did have him and backed off. I know each fighter is different but you'd think Wlad could smell the blood and knew to go for it right then. How many guys has he knocked out? Over 50. Either way it was a great performance and I think whatever decision he makes is fine. If he did beat him in a rematch, that is huge. Even if he lost again, he won't kill his legacy. That isn't going anywhere, not to mention his giant bank account.

[hugh grant]

Yes in hindsight when you are gassed you are vulnerable to be stopped.
If you are allowed to recover from being gassed your opponent must have really took it eassy on yoiu!
Haye was gassed when stopped by Carl thompson.

[Boxing Logic]

He was actually right about Joshua's gas tank, it's just that between every round he got to rest for a minute which allowed him to have some energy for the first 30 seconds or minute of each round even when he was tired. Klitschko should have just baited Joshua into throwing hard shots the first minute then jump away out of range and let Joshua use up his energy the first minute, then attack him the next two minutes, especially the body the last minute of the round. If he'd gone to the body like that Joshua definitely would not have recovered. All he had to do was play it safe the first minute of each round, then take Joshua's energy with body shots the last minute or two of the round, and go for the kill when the moment was right in the last half of a round. Instead Klitschko got lazy with his defense early in the last round of the fight, and Joshua caught him with an uppercut when his arms were still rested from the break between rounds, and Klitschko got hurt, Joshua got a shot of adrenaline from hurting his opponent and the crowd going wild, and that was all she wrote. But Klitschko definitely would have won if he'd capitalized on his advantage differently.

[OctoberRed]

I think Vitali will feel better is he unretires to get his hands on Joshua.

[Sledgeweather17]

Let's play the game where we all pretend that Klitschko didn't throw dozens of trademark left hooks that were all skillfully slipped and ducked by Joshua in his attempt to end the fight.

[Digital Mouth]

Vitali Klitschko the mayor of Kiev. Thank god he's not the mayor of my city with advice like that.

[hugh grant]

Let's play the game where we all pretend that Klitschko didn't throw dozens of trademark left hooks that were all skillfully slipped and ducked by Joshua in his attempt to end the fight.

If it was wilder he'd be throwing windmills and they'd likely be missing but because he'd be looking wild the ref would have stopped fight.

Wlad was too polite. But when you are gassed you look horrible sand the ref thinks your hurt more than you probaly are. Wlad could have persuaded the ref to stop it as josh did in 11th.

[Robbie Barrett]

Let's play the game where we all pretend that Klitschko didn't throw dozens of trademark left hooks that were all skillfully slipped and ducked by Joshua in his attempt to end the fight.

It was pretty obvious Wlad was fighting for points. He paid the price. Joshua was gassed for a good 5 rounds.

[thack]

Yes. What AJ proved is he's fit for the course and to beat him you've got to hammer him to the canvass as his head seems to clear ok..

If you look at the amount of big left hooks that Wlad missed with immediately after knocking AJ down then maybe that's something for Wlad to work on if he takes the rematch.

I would have AJ. 65 /35 to win and when he goes at Wlad guns blazing thats where Wlad struggles.They've both seen weaknesses which keeps a rematch interesting but I think the one i've just mentioned is more to the point and might even get AJ. an early KO. next time.