By Dave Lahr: I don’t want to see anyone looking surprised next Saturday night when Shannon Briggs (51-5-1, 45 KO’s) gives WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (40-2, 38 KO’s) the whipping of his life and knocks him clean out in their fight on October 16th at the O2 World Arena, in Hamburg, Germany.

Vitali is old, slow, and is facing a much faster and bigger puncher in Briggs. What it comes down to is Vitali is finally facing someone about the same size as him, and that means he won’t be able to pull his typical tricks where he stretches his arms out and keeps his opponents at a distance if he were fighting with a long stick to push them away when they get close.

Briggs’ arms are just as long as Vitali’s, but Briggs has much better hand speed and power. Vitali is like an old car with a lot of mileage on him facing a younger Porche with a powerful engine and a speedometer that reads up to 200 MPH. Briggs is going to be firing big salvos at the aging Vitali, and testing his chin from the very second this fight starts.

Vitali has often showed a great chin in the past, but that was in fights where he only got hit like a dozen times during the entire fight. Briggs is going to be hitting Vitali a lot more than that, and he’s going to be really testing the Ukrainian’s chin.

It will either be Klitschko’s weak skin that rips apart from Briggs’ solid power shots, or his chin will finally betray him after all these years. When you old like Vitali, you lose your ability to take big shots to the head. That’s not good for Vitali, because Briggs can really pop with both hands.

Briggs is a huge underdog in this fight, but that’s because the so called experts that has made him to underdog don’t have a clue. Briggs is going to prove all these people wrong by slapping Klitschko around with ease and making him look like a tall kid on the playground.

I just hope Vitali doesn’t quit on his stool in between rounds. I want this fight to go until the referee stops it or until Vitali is out cold from one of Briggs’ big power shots.