Hey someone at Google can't spell
Posted on 09/27/2009 1:06:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Vitali Klitschko was doing most of his talking in English, which made sense because, after all, he had just starred in prime time on American television. Besides, he didn't need a whole lot of words to describe what he had just done to poor Cris Arreola.
Talking about the fight was easy enough in any of the four languages Klitschko speaks. The actual fight seemed pretty easy, too, at least to people watching Saturday night at Staples Center.
They came to watch Arreola fight like a warrior and win a piece of the heavyweight title. They ended up seeing Klitschko put on a coolly efficient clinic on how to hit and avoid being hit.
For anyone who truly appreciates the sweet science, it was good stuff. Floyd Mayweather Jr. did much the same thing a week earlier, though against a fighter who was 100 pounds lighter.
That fight drew 1 million households at 50 bucks a pop. This one was an HBO freebie, put on almost as an afterthought to fill space after replay of Mayweather-Marquez.
Blame Klitschko for much of that. As good as he is, he's more concerned with getting out of boxing with his brain cells intact than he is in fighting crowd-pleasing brawls.
The problem is that boxing fans — in the United States, at least — don't want cerebral heavyweight champions. They prefer their heavyweights a bit out of control, like the guy with the tattoo on his face who was sitting ringside at Staples Center.
You never knew what might happen when Mike Tyson stepped in the ring. You always have a pretty good idea what's going to happen when Klitschko puts on the gloves.
"I understand," Klitschko said. "Everyone wants a bloody fight to enjoy. Everyone wants someone to go to the floor."
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Saw the fight last night. Vitali has an awkward/stiff style, but he dominated a top contender with ease. Yep, he and his bro completely dominate the division. I’d love to see a “Battle of the Klitschkos”, but I doubt that’ll ever happen.
Whatever happened to that cocky sob Prince something or other.
?? Are they being ignored because Don King cannot screw them over or because they are the wrong color?
We watched the fight last night and Klitschko was very methodical in his boxing. He seemed to have a goal and didn’t deviate for a second. Plus he has an arm reach that his opponent couldn’t get around. Nothing flashy about him, he just got the job done.
I think that if the brothers were to fight each other, their mother would get in the middle of the ring and bang their heads together. She probably doesn’t want to relive their teenage years :):)
Prince Naseem Hamed? Last time I saw him he was getting destroyed by Marco Antonio Barrera. ...which must’ve been 7 or 8 year ago now. The little overhyped clown didn’t like the beating, so he retired.
So, why isn’t he popular ? Is it because he’s a foreigner ?
Hey someone at Google can't spell
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That’s why I hated fighting taller boxers. You have to work you ass off just to get close to them and by the time you do get to them you’re too damn tired to hit them.
I can see why people don’t even want to know about Vitali Klistchko.
He and his brother aren’t your average boxers. They’re actually CEREBRAL sportsmen, more into using their heads than their brawns.
Both Vitali and his brother are avid chess players. Vitali is a friend of former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and the two have played, with Kramnik always winning. Vitali has commented that “chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.”
People watch boxing to see a brawl, not to see something akin to chess. THAT’s THEIR PROBLEM. They don’t have the animal instinct of say, Mike Tyson or the flashiness of Muhammad Ali.
Vitali and his brother also have been involved in charitable activities dedicated to support the needs of schools, churches and children. In 2002, the Klitschko brothers announced that they had agreed to work specifically for the UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) which supports more than 180 projects in 87 countries.
Boxing is supposed to be a business for toughies. These brothers don’t look and act like toughies off the ring.
Vitali Klistcho might be the FIRST World Heavyweight champion with a PH.D degree.
According to Wikipedia :
He graduated from the Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky Pedagogical Institute (Ukraine) and was accepted into the postgraduate study program at Kiev University.
On 29 February 2000, he presented his doctoral thesis on “talent and sponsorship in sports” at the Kiev University of Physical Science and Sports, and his Ph.D. in Sports Science was conferred.
I’m thinking that neither of the brothers are trash talkers. They train hard, and aren’t into a bunch of flashy foolishness that some of the other fighters are. Maybe people are more into the ‘shock entertainment’ than just the pure athleticism they both possess.
I have seen them fight and I thought they were pretty good. I just think there was something missing.
We watched the fight last night, and have seen the brothers before. I have always been impressed with how polite, well spoken, and humble they are. We are always impressed with both of them. In sharp contrast, his opponent dropped the f-bomb, including the mf-bomb, no less than 5 times during his comments following the match. I know he was upset, but the difference between the two was profound.
The last fight I saw, they were introduced with a laser-light show... so flash was definitely there.
Arreola was also literally crying like a baby during the post-fight interview, which I suspect is the reason the decidedly pro-Arreola crowd responded with silence — fight fans like their fighters to take losses like men. The entire interview was a cry and cuss fest.
I grew up watching boxing on ABC’s Wide World of Sports, Olympics, and ESPN. Now that I am exposed to K1, Pride Fighting, and the UFC, I can’t sit through a single round of boxing.
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