Klitschko needs to beat Chambers in an impressive manner
March 9th, 2010
By Jim Dower: The knock on IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is that he’s a boring, safety first fighter who lacks heart. Some people think Wladimir does just enough to win his fights, and because of that believe, many boxing fans have lost interest in watching Wladimir fight. This hasn’t been lost on HBO, who now rarely shows any of Klitschko’s fights anymore. That’s hard to imagine for a heavyweight who has dominated the heavyweight division for the most part for the past five years.
However, he’s become so boring that many fans aren’t interested in watching him fight any longer. If Wladimir wasn’t to try and win back those same fans that have been deserting his ship, he needs to start throwing more power shots and try to show some urgency starting with his March 20th fight against the American challenger Chambers.
This would appear to be the perfect fight for Klitschko to try and look good in, because Chambers isn’t much of a puncher and is badly undersized in this fight at only 6’1” 208. Chambers’ lack of height will be a problem for him in this fight or at least it should be. Chambers feels that his small size will help him because it will enable him to be faster and land shots that Klitschko can’t defend against.
Chambers will be trying to pressure Klitschko and make him uncomfortable. Chambers has nothing to lose in this fight, so you can expect him to fight his heart out trying to get a stoppage win. But Wladimir has a lot to gain. It’s really important for him to fight as hard as he can and make every effort to try and take Chambers out in a spectacular fashion.
If Wladimir wants a future fight against World Boxing Association heavyweight champion David Haye to be a potential mega fight, he’s going to have to show more aggression by trying to take out Chambers. Wladimir can’t afford to play it safe yet again like he did against the equally small Sultan Ibragimov in 2008. That fight turned off a lot of boxing fans, because Wladimir towered over the 6’2” Ibragimov, who had no power to speak of going for him.
But instead of trying to tee off on Ibragimov with big power shots, Wladimir played it safe by jabbing from the outside and clinching Ibragimov constantly. In between rounds, Steward practically begged Wladimir to open up with his offense, but nothing worked. Wladimir continued to play it safe until the end of the fight. The crowd hated it and by then many of them had already left the arena in frustration.
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you guys are stupid enough to believe that david haye has only to hit vlad on the chin and he’s going to crumble….vlad has to be hit, repeatedly by a really big hitter….he’s only been knocked out once and he’s been in with many punchers with more bang than davie…and he’s no longer going to collapse from fatigue, he’s too finely trained for that these days…and david is not that big a puncher….he has a decent punch…but i havent seen that power at heavyweight….he had to hit most cruiserweights a lot to ko them…david’s chin is far far weaker than vlads and his defense is far more porous…he has a slim chance, but if they fight 20 times, he loses 19
strange article with muddled prose and an English accent lurking in the backround…..vlad’s last performance was exciting, whereas Haye’s may have been the worst fight in heavyweight history and you say “Vlad has to be more exciting to face Haye???” Vlad and Vitali are generally too good to be exciting, like Lewis against Tua…but the reason fans are not interested them in America has to do with three things, they are white to begin with, few boxing fans in America are young and white…they are extremely intelligent, Americans distrust intelligence…and third they are Russian and are still viewed through the lens of the cold war by the few boxing fans who are white as most of them are over 50….there is nothing they can do that they won’t be disliked in America
The master of Grab and Jab Wladamir Klitschko, saw the promo for this fight… very exciting stuff, more like a stop smoking advert. Wladamir looks fitter, leaner more focused in his training under his newest trainer so why don’t he box better, he’s the No.1 heavyweight so act like it. Saw his chagaev bout ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, most likely the Chambers bout ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ and the David Haye bout WHACK on Wladamir’s chin and ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
K brothers are mostly boaring but can be exciting when pushed!Hope Chamber’s pushed Whlad.
Personaly I don’t care if the K brothers “get it done,” I and many others don’t watch boxing for a technical,”safe” fight,I watch boxing to see a fight! Some of the best fighters in history had excellent technique and came to fight using their techinique to the best of their abilities all the while the fan’s are winning too.With the K brothers they win and much of the crouds sits there board!
i like the k brothers style of fighting. I dont watch fights for the KO…rather i watch them for the technical fighting and the skills. if the ko comes, so be it.
i will miss the K bros when they retire
I think smart is the word. They both know what gets it done and that is what they do.
Uncle Ewald – Nicely said!
One day everyone will be saying how good it was when the Klitschkos where around because when they retire there will be no one out there even worth mentioning.
Fighters like Haye, Arreola, Povetkin and etc. will be passing their belts around after every fight and the division will look really weak.
Its hard to believe that any one of them will ever be seen as a real champion.
Personally I dont think the Klitschko’s are boring. Ali and Holmes were never critizised for fighting defensively, and who called Ali boring? Furthermore, I think the Klits would have beaten a lot of former champs with great easy, especially the overrated Foreman (who got outpointed by small Jimmy Young and nearly lost to 220 pound Ron Lyle) and living punchback Marciano.
This article is clearly anti-Klitschko in tendency and viewpoint. To repeat again and again that Wladimir is boring is not inevitably dealing with reality but instead revealing that the writer is for what ever reason totally biased against the brothers. When the “boring” Wladimir Klitschko is able without difficulty to fill huge football stadiums to capacity with his fans there seems to be a certain ambiguity with what this writer claims.
More in line with reality is the fact that heavyweight boxing would be truly be barren without the Klitschko element and the stimulation that they bring to boxing. Between the two of them the fans have been able to witness almost one hundred knockouts and gentlemen KO´s are exciting.
We will miss these great athletes when they step off the stage, this is as certain as the “amen in the church”.