By Dan Ambrose: ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas pointed out tonight on Friday Night Fights that he still sees IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko as a vulnerable fighter despite his impressive one-sided 12 round decision against the number #3 fighter in the entire heavyweight division David Haye. Wladimir reduced Haye to a timid fighter just trying to survive and throwing desperate shots that didn’t have a prayer to land.

Atlas’ view on Wladimir was less flattering than a lot of the praise that he’s been getting, saying “If guys come in and actually fight, Klitschko is very vulnerable and wouldn’t be champion anymore.” Atlas doesn’t say who those guys would be that could do this to Wladimir, but hopefully Altlas isn’t referring to Alexander Povetkin, the heavyweight chose not to fight Wladimir when the fight was offered to him.

The fact is Wladimir was beaten in the past by fighters that applied a lot of pressure on him, but he’s improved a lot since his last defeat in 2004, and has trounced the few pressure fighters that he’s been in with in the past seven years, including Lamon Brewster, one of the guys that beat him with pressure in 2004.

Wladimir’s jab and grab technique along with his huge size and power makes him very hard to beat anyone in the division. You can’t take a medium sized heavyweight like Povetkin and tell him to put pressure on Wladimir and think he’ll win. That’s some kind of simplistic garbage that you’d see in a movie. It doesn’t work that way with Klitschko because he moves so well, and his jab is so good. He’s got too many weapons to defeat a pressure fighter with now and really it’s going to take some aging on Wladimir’s part before he’s going to be vulnerable against the mediocre heavyweights that permeate the division now.