By William Mackay: More than the usual Wladimir Klitschko bout, his March 20th fight against the smallish American Eddie Chambers (35-1, 18 KO’s) has boring mismatch written all over it. With the 6’1” Chambers, it’s almost impossible to see him even coming close to beating the much bigger and stronger 6’6” Klitschko. It’s not that Wladimir can’t be beaten, because three fighters have proven that he is vulnerable if he gets hit just right. But the problem is that Chambers doesn’t have the size or power to leave Wladimir in a horizontal position like Ross Purity, Corrie Sanders and Lamon Brewster did in the past.

Chambers won’t have it easy as it is. The fight will be taking place at the Espirit Arena, in Dusselfdorf, Germany, where Klitschko is a huge star. The Espirit arena will probably be packed with 60,000 Klitschko fans all wanting to see him win. Perhaps Chambers won’t mind the large pro-Klitschko crowd, but whatever the case, he’s going to need to be mentally strong to be able to shut out that kind of fan base.

Ideally, Chambers needs to go after Klitschko as early as he can in the fight to try and take the German crowd out of the fight, and also to get Klitschko back pedaling. If Chambers get hit Wladimir with some big shots early, it could pay off later on in the fight because Klitschko might be reluctant to throw his own bombs.

However, even if Chambers does put Klitschko on the back foot, he could still end up dominating Chambers without too many problems due his excellent jab. Wladimir probably has the best jab in the heavyweight division and if that’s all he throws all night then it’s more than enough to beat virtually all the heavyweight contenders in the division, including WBA heavyweight champion David Haye.

Chambers will have to be thinking desperate if he doesn’t want to get taken out or beaten down by Klitschko’s jabs, right hands and left hooks. The best thing that Chambers can do is to try and turn the fight into a replay of his 12 round majority decision win over Alexander Dimitrenko in July 2009. Chambers did a great job of getting past Dimitrenko’s jabs, and then pounding him on the inside with fast power shots.

Chambers can do that with Klitschko as well, but he’ll have to fight off Klitschko’s attempts at clinching. Klitschko likes to clinch anytime his opponents try to get inside with him. Normally, Klitschko has little problems tying up his opponents. However, he failed to clinch properly against Brewster and Sanders, and was taken out in both of those fights despite his attempts to clinch.

Chambers has a chance to win, but he’s going to have to try and land when Klitschko goes to wrap his arms around him. Klitschko leaves himself open when he grabs his opponent. Chambers will have a chance to hit Klitschko, but he’s going to have to let his hands go with some big shots because Klitschko will be clinching him over and over again to shut down the American’s offense.