By Gari Jones: Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko are too methodical in their approach, boring fans and in return have been driving away audiences. In the last 5 years the level of opposition has been anything but below par, and in the last couple of fight’s both brother’s have failed to give a performance worthy of paying a PPV subscription, laboring to points decision’s against very low opposition.

Take Wladimir for example holding both the WBO and IBF titles, now since 2008 defeating Sultan Ibragimov he’s fought a further five times in one sided contest’s failing to excite crowds and arrange a fight against anyone who had the ability to cause him trouble, Eddie Chambers, Hasim Rahman and Samuel Peters are culprits in this crime. This is evident in his next title defence against relatively unknown Derek Chisora, having only 14 professional fights under his belt and never fought at European level, Wladimir has decided he’s worthy of a chance at two of the four major titles in the world .

This fight was called off at first because Wladimir had injured his wrist meaning he couldn’t compete. David Haye waiting in the wings and calling him out on Youtube, the way should’ve been clear for what fans really want; a real heavyweight contest that involves a unification fight. But he opted out of the chance for a real contest and decided to go after Chisora again instead.

It gets even better with Vitali , after having made such an impact against Lennow Lewis he was to be the man to carry it forward. But since capturing the WBC belt from Corries Sanders in 2004 in what was a slow one sided victory for Vitali, this trend has long continued with him. Danny Williams after beating Mike Tyson was outclassed being knocked down in four of the eight rounds he lasted, Samuel Peter (who is way overrated) was a standing punchbag; Vitali was just jabbing at his fat face and Samuel doing nothing to stop it in the entire eight rounds it went on for, Juan Carlos Gomez and Chris Arreola were just as bad.

As Vitali has aged he has began to slow down and it seems so do the level of his challengers, the unheard of Kevin Johnson and the grossly over ranked Albert Sosnowski were given the chance to fight for the title and to top it all off, the walking sack of meat that is Shannon Briggs got the nod over people Boystov, Povetkin and Haye. All of Vitali’s and Wladimir’s fights have had one thing in common the last few times they‘ve fought, all of them were just standing still and the judges’ scorecards giving them most or nearly every round.
It’s this that has made the Heavyweight scene the way it is today, it’s stupid to blame the majority of boxer’s today because they’re either overweight, under skilled, under ambitious or overrated that the division is to blame. The sanctioning bodies should be held accountable by the sporting industries or governmental bodies for letting the Klitschko’s choose and pick their opponents, rather than by someone actually earning it, as it was in the olden days.

The Brother’s though have taken this problem and escalated to line their own pockets, pad their records with easy wins and take a division once renowned for its greatness of top quality contests. It seems until the Klitschko’s retire, someone beats them or the sanctioning bodies start wising up then Heavyweight boxing will long stay a stagnant area.