By Dan Ambrose: Heavyweight contender Eddie Chambers (35-1, 17 KO’s) has great boxing skills and some nice wins going into his title March 20th title fight against International Boxing Federation/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (53-3, 47 KO’s) next month. However, it’s hard to see a case where the 6’1” Chambers will be able to out-box the 6’6” 245 pound Klitschko and win the fight. The bout will be taking place at the large ESPRIT arena, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, where there is expected to be as many as 60,000 fans in attendance.

There won’t be many fans of Chambers at that fight, because Klitschko fights out of Germany where he is a big national hero to many of them. Chambers, without much size or power to speak of, may have to rely on his boxing ability and hand speed if he wants to have any chance of beating Klitschko.

Giving up six inches in reach to Klitschko will make it tough on Chambers to land continuously against Wladimir unless Chambers can work his way on the inside and stay there for considerable amounts of time like he did in his recent win over top heavyweight contender Alexander Dimitrenko last year in July. If Klitschko lets Chambers work away on the inside, it’s possible that Chambers could beat Klitschko by a 12 round decision.

However, Wladimir isn’t going to make the mistake of letting Chambers punch on the inside for extended amounts of time like Dimitrenko did. Instead, you can look for Wladimir to tie him up to prevent Chambers from throwing a lot of his shots. On the outside, Chambers will have only a small chance of winning because Klitschko, unless he’s lazy, will be jabbing him continuously with his powerful jab. Chambers has a decent jab of his own if he can get into range to throw it.

But he’s going to have to adopt an in and out style of fighting much like welterweight Manny Pacquiao if he wants to score often against Klitschko. That is certainly a possibility, because Klitschko is sometimes slow to react to attacks despite having very good hand speed. However, Klitschko also has big power in either hand and if he catches Chambers coming in with one of his big shots, he could put Chambers down for the count.

Chambers has shown a good chin in fights against Samuel Peter and Alexander Povetkin, but those guys threw shots that were much easier seen than the big shots that Klitschko could be hitting him with. At the same time, Klitschko doesn’t throw hard shots all the time. He likes to trick his opponents by throwing weaker shots and then all of a sudden loading up on a big right hand that they’re expecting or don’t see. Chambers will have to possess a great chin in this fight just to stay upright long enough to make it to the final bell.