Leapai: Wladimir hasn’t fought anybody with the power that I’ve got

By Boxing News - 02/05/2014 - Comments

wlad7888By Allan Fox: #1 WBO Alex Leapai (30-4-3, 24 KO’s) is promising that he’ll be knocking out IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (61-3, 51 KO’s) in their fight in two months on April 26th at the Koenig Pilsener Arena, Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Leapai, who was born in Samoa but lives in Australia, sees himself as being the most powerful heavyweight that Wladimir has ever fought in his career, and he aims to prove on when they meet up in the ring in April.

Leapai might not have seen Wladimir’s past fights against Corrie Sanders, Samuel Peter, Ross Puritty, David Haye and Lamon Brewster. Those guys are all arguably bigger punchers than Leapai. That doesn’t mean that Leapai can’t punch, because he does appear to have really good power. However, he’s got the slow type of power that you see in some of the heavyweights in the past like George Foreman. Leapaid doesn’t have Foreman’s power, of course, but he’s the same type of fighter due to his slow hand speed.

“I just believe this guy hasn’t fought anybody with the power that I’ve got,” Leapai said to Fox Australia. “It ain’t going the distance. I promise you guys one of us is going to get knocked out and it ain’t going to be me. Whoever is going to back me is going to make a lot of money. For me, it’s not about the money; it’s about putting Australia on the map. It’s to let the world know that we do have Australian heavyweight and they can fight.”

There’s a very good chance that one of these two heavyweights will be knocked out on April 26th, but there’s really not much of a chance that it’ll be Wladimir that gets knocked out. Leapai is slower than the guys that Wladimir has been fighting in the last decade. You have to go back pretty far to find one of Wladimir’s opponents that was as slow as Leapai. It would probably be when Wladimir was first starting out in the first four years of his career when he was fighting guys like Jerry Halstead and Paea Wolfgramm.



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