By Chris Williams: For boxing fans of IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko if they want to see his March 20th fight against challenger “Fast” Eddie Chambers, they’ll have to purchase this on pay-per-view. In this day and age, this isn’t really that much of a shock, as it seems like any halfway decent fighter is thrown on PPV. However, both HBO and ESPN won’t be showing the Klitschko-Chambers fight, so if fans want to see the bout they’ll have to purchase the fight.

I recently saw an awful Latin Fury 13 PPV card, which had a bunch of fighters on there that I felt, should have never been in a pay-per-view, including the main event of Nonito Danaire vs. Manuel Vargas. I never seen so many mismatches in my life, and thing of it is, they were mismatches going into the fight and that’s sad. But I frankly can’t get excited about seeing a fight between Chambers and Klitschko either, even though I think fight blows away any bout on the Latin Fury card.

The problem with seeing Wladimir face a fighter like Chambers is that the fight appears to be a blow out before the first punch has even been thrown. Klitschko, 6’6”, is much too big for the little 6’1’ 209 pound Chambers. There’s just too much of a difference between the size of Klitschko and Chambers. It’s not entirely all about Chambers’s lack of size in this fight.

I mean there are some short heavyweights like Mike Tyson that would have likely run over Klitschko if they ever fought. But Chambers doesn’t have the power or speed needed to make him competitive with Klitschko. If boxing fans don’t feel that the fight is going to be competitive – or interesting – they won’t want to pay for the Klitschko vs. Chambers fight.

Unlike Manny Pacquiao, Klitschko doesn’t have a horde of boxing fans in the United States that will pay to see him fight no matter who the opponent is. Boxing fans here want to see entertaining fights and want to see Klitschko in with fighters that at least have a tiny chance of beating Klitschko, like WBA heavyweight champion David Haye. Chambers, on the other hand, probably has zero chance of scoring a knockout and beating Klitschko unless he gets caught just right with a big shot.

On top of that, Klitschko has a reputation for being a boring fighter. He didn’t used to be that way, but since picking up trainer Emanuel Steward in 2004, Klitschko has steadily become more and more boring as the years go by. Previous to being trained by Steward, Klitschko was a pure slugger who went and tried to take out his opponent as fast as he could.

That didn’t always work for him, though, as he ran out of gas against big puncher Ross Purity and was stopped in the 11th round and was taken out again this time by southpaw Corrie Sanders in 2003. Now Klitschko tends to throw mostly jabs and occasionally right hands. He used to have one of the best lefts hooks in the heavyweight division, but Klitschko rarely throws it anymore because he sometimes get’s countered when he misses like in his fight against Sanders.

Chambers isn’t much of a counter puncher, and even if he was, he won’t be getting a lot of opportunities to land anything because Klitschko throws mostly jabs now and leans back if his opponent comes at him.