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By ScottG
Wladimir Klitschko defended his crown by stopping Hasim Rahman in the seventh round on Saturday. The fight as I saw it was pretty predictable. Any of you who saw the Rahman vs James Tony debacle would have saw this one coming. Rahman had nothing for Klitchko who basically did whatever he wanted to do round after round. The only shocker in this fight was that Rahman lasted into the seventh round. He probably wouldn't have if Klitchko would have pressed him harder in the fight. Klitchko basically gave us the same plodding jabbing straight right hand throwing workman like performance we've grown used to seeing from him. Hopefully this is the last time we see Rahman in the ring, and hopefully this is the last time we are forced to watch and over rated washed up fighter get a cheap title shot. Yeah, right. At least it wasn't a Pay Per View fiasco =)
5 comments:
I didn't see the fight, Scott but as you said, predictable. Klitschko's saving grace is that there is no real competition in the heavyweights today.
Your absolutely right Randy. I didn't mention that Klitchko has forgotten how to throw a body punch. He had Rahman against the ropes and Rahman wasn't even throwing punches in the 3rd or fourth round. Rahman was just covering up and Klitchko was being real slow and patient trying to penetrate his defenses with ...you guessed it...jabs and straight right hands to the head. A few well placed punches to his wide open torso would have opened up the head better and he could have got him out of there alot sooner. I know his famous trainer knows this, and I was suprised he didn't get on him in his corner. Even the retard HBO comentators mentiond the lack of a body attack. There is no hope in the immediate future for an exiting Heavy to come in and clean out these pretenders.
There is a fighter by the name of David Haye, the former cruiserweight champ from England that has been pushing for a fight with Klitschko. He has yet to fight anyone great himself but he is a more credible opponent. klitschko won't fight him. (sigh) I miss the good old days.
Scott, let's not forget our own Californian heavyweight Chris Arreola. I don't think he's quite ready to challenge for a title just yet, but in a years time, maybe. The heavyweight drought can't last forever.
I saw Chris Arreola fight a not long ago. Yuor right...he's not ready unless you now get points for blocking punches with your chin. He needs some serious work on his defense and movement before he fights anyone near the top ten.
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