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By Scott Gilfoid: The long-armed Bryant Jennings (19-0, 10 KOs) will be coming after IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (63-3, 53 KOs) to strip him of four world titles in their fight at Madison Square Garden, in New York, New York, USA.

While Jennings the 6’3”, 220lbs, may be giving up around 25 pounds and 3 inches in height to the 6’6”, 245 pound Wladimir on April 25th, he’ll actually be sporting a three inch reach advantage against him. This means that Jennings is going to be able to nail Wladimir any time he wants.

This won’t be a fight in which Wladimir will be able to stand on the outside and bomb away with his right hands or his jabs, because it’ll be Jennings who will be the one landing from the outside. It also means that Jennings won’t have to move in and put himself at danger to Wladimir’s powerful left hooks, because Jennings will be able to keep the action on the outside.

We saw how Wladimir’s last opponent Kubrat Pulev, 6’4 ½”, was forced to wade into the punching zone of Wladimir’s left hooks due to his reach not being long enough for him to stand on the outside. As a result, Pulev was knocked down three times in the fight in the process of losing by a 5th round knockout.

Pulev had no choice but to wade into the danger zone against Wladimir, and that was not a good idea. Jennings doesn’t have to do that because he’s got a huge reach advantage over Wladimir.

This fight could go very wrong for Wladimir if Jennings starts letting his hands go with combinations in the way that Corrie Sanders did with his fast hands. Sanders had Wladimir up and down on the deck like a yo-yo in their fight in 2003. Jennings doesn’t have Sanders type power, but he can hit with enough power to have similar results.

What makes Jennings so dangerous is that he puts his punches together better than any heavyweight in the division. Even WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder doesn’t throw combinations like Jennings. The American fighter got a late start in the boxing game, but he throws textbook combinations in classical form. It’s like watching the late Jack Dempsey throw his combinations. Jennings has the same style, and it’s devastating when he lands those shots. Like Dempsey, Jennings isn’t a heavyweight, but he doesn’t need to be heavy because he’s able to hurt his opponents with his combinations, and control the fight with his long reach.

Jennings has added some nice scalps to his resume recently with his wins over Mike Perez, Artur Szpilka, Andrey Fedosov, Bowie Tupou, Chris Kovalev and Steven Collins. Jennings looked impressive in each one of those fights, and he showed excellent punching power. He had Perez looking worn out by the 5th round because of his high pressure style of fighting.

Wladimir, 39, recently defeated Pulev, Alex Leapai, Alexander Povetkin, Francesco Pianeta and Mariusz Wach. None of those guys had the arm length or the talent to nail him with shots in the same way Jennings did. Wladimir was able to clinch like mad against those guys to get a victory, but he won’t be able to do that against Jennings because he’s going to have the reach advantage in this fight.