Scheduled: Klitschko Vs Chambers

[Cap]

Seems to me it'll take someone younger, with size enough to reach Wlad Klitschko's chin and power enough to hurt him when he does get through. Another Lennox Lewis.

This whole situation is bizarre. It's like you've got one heavyweight champion with split personalities. The two-headed Klitschko will never fight itself. Their promoter will hand-pick opponents best suited to each brother's particular skill set. This cries out for a single World Commission of Boxing. But then you'd likely have one brother acting as gatekeeper for the one with the title, so you'd still probably have to beat both of them to be champ. However, if they refused to match them against each other, there'd be pressure to allow a top contender to bypass the gatekeeper.

Sooner or later one or both of the brothers will retire.

Well, at least the boxing world makes sense in Title Bout....unless you're a masochist.

Cap

[btown32]

Originally Posted by Cap

Seems to me it'll take someone younger, with size enough to reach Wlad Klitschko's chin and power enough to hurt him when he does get through. Another Lennox Lewis.

This whole situation is bizarre. It's like you've got one heavyweight champion with split personalities. The two-headed Klitschko will never fight itself. Their promoter will hand-pick opponents best suited to each brother's particular skill set. This cries out for a single World Commission of Boxing. But then you'd likely have one brother acting as gatekeeper for the one with the title, so you'd still probably have to beat both of them to be champ. However, if they refused to match them against each other, there'd be pressure to allow a top contender to bypass the gatekeeper.

Sooner or later one or both of the brothers will retire.

Well, at least the boxing world makes sense in Title Bout....unless you're a masochist.

Cap

Even if one of the brothers do retire, that still leaves us with an alphabet organization to fill the belt with the left-overs that (like you and everybody else says) can't beat Vitali or Wlad. I don't know if that solution is any better. It will not get any better until the HW division gets better fighters, and that does not seem likely. I watched the Solis vs. Drummond fight last night (Drummond quit on the stool in at the end of the 2nd, reminded me of Clottey because he didn't want to throw any punches) and Solis just won't get in the proper condition. Another case of the unwillingness to prepare, train, and have the desire to be great. Same as Arreola. It is too bad too, because Solis does seem to have the skills even though he forgets about using the jab and just throws some wild overhand rights. I have been watching too many fighters that do not want to really be in the ring and are just taking the money, covering up, unwilling to get in condition, unwilling to take chances because of fear of getting hit and hurt, unwillingness to fight to win. At least we know that the Vasquez-Marquez 4 fight, that will be in Los Angeles later this year, will guarantee some actual fighting and heated exchanges.

[Jersey-Jim]

What's different about the Klitschko's reign as Heavyweight Champions that makes them unique is - they have tremendous popularity in Germany and can sell tickets there all day long. They don't need the US as far as making big money goes.

One of the things the Klitschko's have going against them here in the U.S. is their personalities. They work the media like athlete's of old did. Listen to an Interview with Marciano, Louis or Dempsey. Then listen to the Klitschko's. The brothers have that old-fashioned be respectful towards everyone type of attitude.

They make Lennox Lewis sound like Ali in comparison! If either of the Klitschko's talked like Naseem Hamed, Floyd Mayweather, Roy Jones or Bernard Hopkins, they'd be a lot more popular in this part of the world. Sad to say, but it's true.

[kenyan_cheena]

Just wondering, how good is the young English guy Tyson Fury? I see he's 10-0 but for some reason went six months between his last two fights.

[Syd Thrift]

I dunno. He's 10 fights into his career and already has an iffy decision against John McDermott. I'd say he's a couple years away at best, and at worst it's hard to say how good or average he is given the (low) level of competition he's faced so far. There are an awful lot of tomato cans in his record.

[Syd Thrift]

Gawd, I loves me the YouTubes. I've now watched a couple of the supposedly dominant fights by Fury and... I just don't see it. He's got a decent jab and seems to be a smart enough boxer (he's tall and seems to like to work the jab and the body shot - Teddy Atlas would be proud) but despite the way the British press is hyping him to nevermore, I'm not convinced he has any power whatsoever and thus far he's faced a bunch of guys who don't want to be in the ring with him so it's hard to see if he has any defense either.

He's got a devastating uppercut though.

YouTube - Tyson Fury punching himself in the face 2

[IceTea]

Tyson Fury isn't bad. He has some nice height and reach and at least fair power. Technically, he isn't great. He leans forward too much and doesn't move to his right much if at all. He is a bit too stiff. He has a nice jab and throws short, crisp combinations and has above average hand speed.

[basketcase77]

I'm from the Uk and I would love to say that Tyson Fury is gonna be great etc but the truth is he is will be a good domestic/european level fighter at best but nothing more. I think if he was called John Smith instead of "Tyson Fury" nobody would have paid any attention to him. I think he could be the British version of Tye Fields, I hope I'm wrong but I don't think so.
I think the reason for the lay off was an injury, in all fairness fighting John McDermott so early in his career was a bold move but he lost that fight no matter what the official result says!