Klitschko-Solis: Vitali says he won’t let Odlanier take his WBC title on March 19th
January 26th, 2011
By Dan Ambrose: World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) will be making his 6th title defense of his WBC belt on March 19th against 2004 Olympic heavyweight gold Medalist for Cuba Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) at the Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Vitali, 39, usually likes to rake his opponents over the coals during his press conferences with them, often embarrassing them with comments or actions.
It looks like Vitali is bending over backwards to try and make the short and fat Solis sound better than he actually is. Solis may have been an excellent amateur, but his lack of discipline in the pro ranks has really hurt him by the way that he’s put on 60 pounds of fat since leaving the amateur ranks. As an amateur, Solis fought at 200 and was incredibly fast and powerful. As a pro, Solis now routinely weighs in the neighborhood of 260, and it doesn’t look like muscle. Solis is reportedly doing hours and hours of roadwork each day to try trim off the blubber to get in shape for the Vitali fight. However, if he’s still eating a lot at home after his training sessions, he’s probably not going to be making a lot of progress in trimming off the lard. You have to wonder why Solis has been unable to take off the fat during his previous training camps. He’s not doing something right.
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You all are a bunch of ignorant friscoes, Vitali in 3.
Solis is not knocking out, Vitali fought Briggs for 12 rounds, none stop.. Bombs over Bagdad, non stop…. NO ONE EVER KNOCKED OUT VITALI. NO ONE. HELLOOOOOOO
i also have to say there is a chance solis can land and knock him out after all vitali is gettin on we just dont know if he can still take punches
the truth solis best win was his last one against ray austin..the man has a huge ego for a guy who has only has 17 fights.he got asked how did he feel about fighting a tough guy in vitali and he says hes no tougher than my last opponents they all had 2 arms and 2 legs so hes just another man…if that indeed was the case then boxing matches wud all be luck.the fact he dosnt think that skill chin power heart are all different in men either means he just didnt have anything smart to say or the fact that hes a moron who has a man standing behind him saying how good he is.big whoop hes a gold medalist and ppl r going on about him beating felix savon a few times.chagaev also beat felix savon on more than one occasion this isnt amature boxing and hes going to find that his promoter just wants money and has rushed him into this fight without gaining experiance…
Can someone enlighten me about which top ranked fighter solis has stopped?this blimp has yet to beat a top fighter, he could´nt even ko long who was knocked out by Peter on 1 round,or austin who was knocked out by lighy-punching Swede Attila Levin and Vladimir. This will be an easier fight for klitschko than against that mexican blimp.That Mex. is faster and he throws better combinations than this overweight Cuban. Watch the barrett fight properly and you will see it was all clubbing punches he threw.
solis is a very talented fighter no doubt.Not saying he will beat Vitali but vitali will have to be on his best night come fightime and it should be good.I hope people will give the credit due to the victor,who i thoink will be the lrgend after defending the best in the division,adamek is next.Arreola had him runing so will vitali ,and I expect an interesting atempt by both failinf contenders.i could be wrong ,thats boxing.
I’m hoping this will be a good fight. Haven’t seen to much of Solis but I know Vitali comes to fight.
I’m starting to wonder why I bother with Vitali anymore, he’s always choosing lame opponents, Solis may be ranked top 10 on Boxrec but I can garauntee that in the 80′s and 90′s this guy would have never gotten a shot. Man how this division has fallen.
this is a tough fight for vit solis has amazing amateur pedigree has good defense and is a great inside fighter he is not going to be as easy to hit as the bums vits been fighting recently
mao , NO.
Solis is gonns kill and eat vitali then you all say how fat he is,the only problem is the wbc will be around his belly.
Vitali is always nice to his opponents until he gets in the ring with them so this isn’t any different then before. Its tre though that Solis really looks fat and that is a shame because he is talented and would be the only real threat to the Klitschkos if he was in shape. Like this i think he has no chance.
Solis looks awful, he’s meant to be an athlete. If he cant get in shape for a title fight thers no point carrying on as a boxer.