Wladimir Klitschko vs. Alexander Povetkin on Sep 11th or Sep 18th
June 17th, 2010
By Eric Thomas: According to the latest boxing news, IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (54-3, 48 KOs) will be facing his number #1 IBF mandatory challenger unbeaten Alexander Povetkin (19-0, 14 KO’s) on September 11th or September 18th, and possibly in Frankfurt, Germany, if Klitschko wins the purse bid for the fight. This could make a big difference between the fight taking place in a huge 65,000 seat stadium in Germany or in Moscow, Russia, in front of a smaller crowd.
However, Haye and Wladimir haven’t been able to put together a fight. There are a lot of different rumors going around how Wladimir and his team offered Haye a 50-50 deal for the fight but was turned down. And then there’s talk that Wladimir never offered a 50-50 deal. But it does look like Haye may be fighting 38-year-old Audley Harrison in a stay busy fight. That’s a decent fight and probably a lot better one than the Klitschko-Povetkin bout because Harrison and Haye, both popular fighters in the UK, are pretty evenly matched. Haye has big power but a shaky chin, whereas the 6’5″ Harrison has the huge height, reach and good power, but is often too timid.
Wladimir, 6’6″, will have a four inch height advantage over the 6’2″ Povetkin and will also have a significant power and reach advantage as well. However, Povetkin is a pressure fighter, has decent power and can take a lot of punishment. He may need to take a lot of punishment if he wants to get to Wladimir’s chin and try to take him out with something big. It’s not as easy to knock Klitschko out like it used to. He now fights much more conservatively, fights behind his jab, clinches often and retreats whenever there’s a minute hint of aggression from his often overmatched opponents.
Wladimir uses his powerful jab to control the action and keep his opponents on the outside. Povetkin is going to have to rush Wladimir and try to get in some big shots before Wladimir ties him up. Povetkin isn’t a huge puncher and this could pretty much keep from doing a whole lot against Wladimir. He doesn’t give you many chances to get shots in and when you do have an opportunity, you need power to hurt him.
Povetkin has always been the type of fighter that needs to land a lot of shots in order to take his opponents out. That’s not going to be good for him against Wladimir unless Povetkin’s trainer Teddy Atlas has found some untapped power in Povetkin that he can bring out against Wladimir. I doubt it.
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Lewis retired rather than face Vitali again. This is the truth of the matter. Vitali had challenged Lewis several times after their fight. If Lewis was so confident, why didnt he come back and fight Vitali again?
Lewis realized that Vitali was a tough boxer who could not only dish out punishment but he could give it as well. Look at Lewis’s face after the fight with Vitali. Lewis had a badly swollen face and his nose was cut pretty bad also.
I would rather have no eyebrow than have no nose.if that gash was a tiny bit longer,lewis’s nose wouldve flopped down into his mouth.
who retired after that fight? that speaks for itself.case closed.
No way. Lewis would have won this fight by KO easily (even if he was aging and overweight). Vitali was completly exhausted by throwing desesperatly so many punches in the early rounds. He would have never end this fight. The official scorecards were ridiculous. The hardest punches were given by Lewis. Vitali was completly dead clinching Lewis all the time in the 6th round while Lewis gave him 2 huge uppercuts. A small cut ??? Vitali had no eyebrown anymore !
Dudes again, Vitali is great fighter but he is nowhere near to the skilled Lennox Lewis. And let’s face it, even Vitali knows it.
I remember that it was the last fight of lewis and considering the a$s kicking he was recieving,I can guess why.
vitali was on his way to knocking him out.most everybody outside of england agrees on that.
lewis has and had nothing on vitali.if they fought a 100 times vitali would kick his a$s a 100 times.
lewis got L U C K Y.
not just lucky that vitali got a cut but that the ref went and stopped it on that cut and not that huge cut across lewis’s nose.vitali practically had lewis’s nose hanging off of his face.
lewis retired because he knew he had no chance in a rematch.
Vitali was ahead on all three score cards when the fight with Lennox was stopped. Lewis was wise to retire rather than fight Vitali again as he probably would have lost the second time.
Guys, do not mess with Lennox. He completly killed Vitali in their bout. I think Vitali only won one round and if the fight would not had been stopped, Vitali would have been floored by another huge uppercut from Lewis before the end. Remember that it was the last fight of Lewis and that he stepped in with a lot of confidence (maybe a bit toot much though) at the higest weight of his career. Vitali or Wlad are nowhere near to the skills of Lennox in his career… Remember that Lewis could do everything : outboxing (faster jab and accuracy), insideboxing(wonderful uppercuts and hooks), he had the footwork, the style, the intinct, the chin, the stamina… EVERYTHING !
The klitchkos do not have half of that ! (no fluidity, they are too stiff and too slow)
klitschko/lewis was a great fight while it lasted.losing on a cut isnt really losing.its losing by a technicality.did you see the cut on lewis’s nose in that fight? vitali practically split his nose in half.they didnt stop it over that but they stopped it on vitalis cut.they could just as easily stopped it on both cuts and called it a draw.
the other thing you said is total bulls”hit mutchie.theyre not freaks of nature.jess willard got wrecked by a smaller guy.primo carnera got wrecked by a smaller guy.valuev lost to chagaev and shouldve lost to holyfield and then got robbed against haye(say what you want but it wasnt any closer than a draw in anyones eyes except haye fans.go look at all the headlines from after the fight.everyone was shocked valuev lost in a boring fight they thought he should have won or at worst had a draw.)
lewis was just as big as vitali but youre not calling him a freak.
If being big makes a guy unbeatable then tall guys like journeyman mike white shouldve been an all time great and fat chris arreola should have blown adamek out of the ring.
mike tyson was smaller than just about everyone he fought so why did he knock so many of those freaks out? because he was just that good.the same with the klitschkos.theyre just that good.
Two super heavywieghts that can back it up.
THE FACT REMAINS LENNOX LEWIS HIT VITALI WITH A BLISTERING RIGHT HAND THAT BLEW A GASH OPEN OVER HIS EYE HIS FACE WAS A MESS AND THEY STOPPED THE FIGHT FOR HIS OWN GOOD TO SAVE HIM FROM HIS OWN BRAVERY I ADMIT IT WAS ONE HELL OF A FIGHT THOUGH !
THE KLITSCHKOS ARE FREAKS OF NATURE AND ARE SUPER HEAVYWEIGHTS AS OPPOSED TO HEAVYWEIGHTS WHO LOOK SMALL NEXT TO THEM THAT IS WHY THEY WIN !!!
It seems like Haye likes to fight older fighters who are 36 to 38 etc. I wonder why Haye wont fight Briggs or Tua then? They are 38. Haye wont fight those 2 fighters for one reason: They can both punch very hard. Haye would rather pick weaker punching heavyweights like Ruiz, Valuev and Barrett instead.
If Haye plans on retiring when he is 31, he will not have too much time left to clean up the division. Haye may fight in Nov. If that is the case, he will then have only 11 more months left before he retires. At the rate that he fights, he will only get in one or two more fights by the time he retires. So much for the cleaning.
lennox lewis was retired by vitali.luckiest moment in his life came when vitali got cut because he was at most 2-3 rounds away from being knocked out.come up with another one.
Hello Adam, you must be feeling very lonely on here not to much support for your man.
Where is he?
Wladimir by KO
Get the facts straight. The K’s have fought and beaten world champs such as Byrd, Brewster, Mercer, Rahman, Chagaev, Ibragimov etc. I can go on.
Now, who has Haye fought? Bonin a nobody, Barrett a 38 yr old washed up fighter, Valuev and then a 38 yr old Ruiz – who had also seen better days. Haye has talked a lot of trash and he needs to back it up and in a hurry. Time is ticking away. He has a lot of cleaning up to do before he retires at the age of 31.
Lennox Lewis was behind on points when the fight was stopped. Vitali had also made Lewis’s face swell up with his power shots. The truth is: Vitali challenged Lewis several times after this fight. What did Lewis do? He retired and never came back. That’s what had happened!!!
If Lewis was so confident, why didnt he come back and fight Vitali again.
Haye says he wants to clean up the division. He took 7 months to fight again after he beat Enzo. Then he takes 11 months to fight again. If Haye wants to retire at the age 0f 31, he is going to have to do a lot of cleaning. Haye is supposedly going to fight in Oct 2010. He will then have 1 year before he retires. How many times will he fight in that 1 year timeframe?
How may real world class fighters have the K’S fought??? Just the one and what happened?? Oh yeah Lennox cut his face to shreds and put him in a hospital bed for the night. Ouch
“This is a question for the Haye fans. How many world class fighters has Haye faced?”
None. Not a single one.
This is a question for the Haye fans. How many world class fighters has Haye faced?
Now ask that same question about the Klitschko’s. They have faced former world champions and other highly skilled boxers and they have won those fights.
Some Haye fans have the nerve to say that the K’s are scared of Valuev. Are you joking? The K’s have tried to offer Valuev fights and he has declined. They would have taken him out before the 8th round, had they fought.
sick and tired of boring heavyweights
Haye vs. Harrison a better fight ??? Get the f*** out of here, and, try to go and fetch some brain and some sense of reality on the way.
David Haye…. David Haye….. David Haye…. For a Klitschko fan you don’t half like talking about DAVID HAYE!! Everyone’s talking about him… Presumably just as he planned!!
Adamek-Povetkin is a great fight, with the winner getting destroyed by Wladimir. Too bad Povetkin has to take the beating prior. Could have been a good one.
Povetkin is probably the third best HW in the world today. He’d easily beat Haye, but we can’t give him much chance against Wlad.
Everyone knows the Klichkov’s are scared of fighter Valuev. They’re the worst champs in history of heavyweight boxing. A couple of prossies.
Povetkin is without a doubt a talent, had he fought in a different era (the 70`s or 80`s) when the heavyweight fighters were not so tall and enormous while at the same time skilled and fast he would have conceivably gone all the way to a major belt.
Unfortunately the truth is size does matter to a great degree as the brothers have abundantly demonstrated. Counter a Frazier, Norton or even the much overrated and ballyhooed Ali Povetkin could have had an authentic prospect of success, alas against the brothers he will be lucky to make it standing on his feet to the end of the bout.
dont know y ppl bother n say anything to the idiot that is hayes suposed num one fan…his bad opponents???compare them to hayes then go and slap urself…like i said b4 wald and vitali r gr8 boxers in an era full of well not much talent atall..grow up kid
Povetkin will go out quicker than Chambers.
number ONE Haye fan…so get your man in the ring while Wlad is still under 38 and Vitali is still alive.
Prediction…it wont happen, ask yourself why?
another boring k bro victory infront of his boring fans in a boring country against a boring boxer
zzzzzz
In this article they are nothing new. Povetkin will beat Wladimir because he is to aggressive for Klitschko and kLitschkos defense is just holding and Povetkin has good and fast combos to beat him up. I think Povetkin will make it in 5 rounds.
this is gonna be a good fight.2 olympic super heavtweight gold medalists going at it for the world heavyweight title.
I think this will be a way better fight than haye.I only wanted to see haye get his a$s kicked and wlad unify another title but this is a genuinely good championship fight with povetkin
Valuev is getting retired by Vitali and Wlad might end Povetkin’s career. Meanwhile, the wet fanny in England will live to run another day.
Povetkin will not fight, they will delay and buy time, and back out, waste everybody time, he knows its not his time, needs 18 months 3-4 fights.