tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90905659150322387912024-02-06T20:43:48.560-08:00Klitschko vs MormeckWatch Klitschko vs Mormeck Online. Read the Klitschko vs Mormeck News, Highlights, Under-cards and Fight Updates.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9090565915032238791.post-48644964440125835852011-11-17T00:01:00.000-08:002011-11-17T00:01:39.870-08:00The Fight of the Heavyweights: Klitschko vs Mormeck<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The fighter Jean-Marc Mormeck is five-foot-eleven in height, weighed like a puffed-up cruiserweight, and thirty nine years old.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Does this title defenses will really make a “legacy” to Wladimir Klitschko?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">If he will only do not look good in the process, that is how the world works. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Does he deserve to a “gimme” battle or two?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">I supposed it’s up to you to think if Klitschko, the multi-belt heavyweight champion, need a breather. Yes, a Breather or Break.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">As we can see, he probably needs it, because he recently disregards a fight with David Haye. I think he needs an atmosphere that is not very challenging. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">The incoming fight of <b><a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/">Klitschko vs Mormeck</a></b> will be held in Germany on December 10, and there were conclusions that it’s a right thing to be held there because that’s one of the few places that it would be probably sold. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">The titles that are at stake for the <b><a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/">Klitschko vs Mormeck</a></b> fight are: the IBF and WBO heavyweight titles, the WBA Super World heavyweight title, and the IBO championship. And as you can see, all that titles at stake means more for the fighters as it means to anyone else</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Mormeck has a record of 36-4 with 22 KOs and has been known as a heavyweight thorugh his fights between Timur Ibragimov and Fres Oquendo. It has been known that those fights were held in a “friendly” territory. Particularly, the fight against Ibragimov could be considered as a robbery because Mormeck won in a split decision where in a place like France the opponent that came from overseas is behind by eight-ball from the start and he have to basically knockout someone with a two-by-four to win over a fight. Take note that Ibragimov is from Uzbekistan, but lives in Florida. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">In a cruiserweight title fight, Mormeck was defeated via knock out by David Haye which does not have any good thing and even suspense that could possibly have for the incoming fight. Even the media really like nothing better than to shill for it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Klitschko was even talked of having a rematch with Haye, which is a very silly part for this, and Haye was defeated and sept his chance to vault himself into a big time title last July 2. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, Klitschko has done his best to help the selling of the fight by saying to the media that underestimating his foe can be a “a fatal mistake”. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">To be fair, Mormeck is hardly without ability.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">For fairness, Mormeck has also abilities to tell.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Before really starting to come into the competition, he lost two of his first five professional fights. The first was a light heavyweight after he defeated Livin Castillo in a WBA Inter-Continental title last 2000. And at one point, he went on a tear off from an eight straight KOs though over the time he only have 22 of his 36 wins were won inside the distance. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Actually, he held the cruiserweight title from a two different events; by beating Virgil Hill in February 2002 and making four defenses from it; and taking over the WBC title by defeating the former undefeated Wayne Braithwaite. Mormeck lose a fight against O’Neill Bell and then later defeated him in a rematch to reclaim again his titles, but then again beaten off by Haye. After then, he has chosen to move up in another weight level, as the most fighters do after losing their titles. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">After all, we got to stick the blame to SOMETHING.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Then there goes the possible other reasons, making more money. As many observed, Mormeck follows the style of Tomasz Adamek, a former light weight and cruiserweight title holder after defeating Klitschko, and later lost in a tough time or fight. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Mormeck, has stated to the media that he had David Haye earlier on the floor during their fight and he said that this time he will finish the job. It could have been better if he have finished that job then, though it’s another topic to tackle. The facts I have stated is for the incoming <b><a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/">Klitschko vs Mormeck</a></b> fight, but of you are going to do promotions for this, you should at least know what is really the score on this fight. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9090565915032238791.post-54766337025395776952011-11-14T02:26:00.000-08:002011-11-14T02:26:37.954-08:00Klitschko's Problem Toward the Smaller Guy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="color: #999999;">Wladimir Klitshko (56-3), the IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion, is expected to go easily with the fight against Jean Marc Mormeck who has 36-4 and 22 KO’s record. Their clash will be at Esprit Arena, Dusseldorf, Germany on December 10. It is said that it a mismatch but it would be a spectacular outcome if Mormeck will go over with Wladimir.</div><div style="color: #999999;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #999999;">As Wladimir’s record is concern, this is his smallest contender he’ll face and it will be big challenge for him to handle such short opponent. It does not mean that Wladimir don’t do well while he’s on the outside, though there is no doubt if he will do well in the fight while having Mormeck on his jab at the end. Moreover, if Wladimir will try to land his right hands he will really face some problems. And he will be forced to downwardly punch Mormeck and it will surely deplete Wladimir’s power and energy. While, Mormeck here has this quick inside move that he likely apply for him to get close to his bigger contender. </div><a name='more'></a><br />
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</div><div style="color: #999999;">If there will be a chance that Klitschko will be able spiked Mormeck in the <a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/"><b>Klitschko vs Mormeck</b></a> fight, while he comes in, though we already witnessed Klitschko’s accurate but unpredictable moves. It would be the major problem for Klitschko because there are higher chances that he will miss hits and get countered because of his shorter opponent, Mormeck. There are a lot of similarities between Mormeck and Joe Frazier, they have both powerful left hook and right hand, and even to their head movements. Mormecks likely to come in low and making his opponent missing hits with his head movements and will pin down his opponents with big shots. We could expect and see a major upset on December 10 on the <a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/"><b>Klitschko vs Mormeck</b></a> match, because Klitschko willsurely having difficulties in handling Mormeck’s big shots on the inside. And if Mormeck will be able to keep getting inside on Klitschko, he’ll surely have many opportunities to win over the fight with his big shots. </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9090565915032238791.post-30100150552609557932011-10-27T19:54:00.000-07:002011-10-27T19:55:23.969-07:00Mormeck vows to smash Klitschko’s face<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Jean Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KO’s) who will challenge WBA, IBF, WBO and The Ring heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) for his titles on December 10 in Dusseldorf, Germany has a very simple strategy.<span id="more-85204"></span></span></span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Associated Press quoted former World Boxing Council (WBC) and WBA cruiserweight champion Mormeck at a news conference to promote the fight saying:</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“I want his belts, if I want to get them, I’ll have to smash his face.”</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“I’ve seen all his opponents, and when they get in the ring, I get the impression they don’t do what they need to do. They don’t move forward. They don’t take any risk.”</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“He has lost three fights and each time he lost them without going the distance. He couldn’t recover each time he got hit. That means he doesn’t take those hits well.”</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mormeck told Klitschko at the news conference:</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“I’ve already seen you in bad shape quite a few times. Vladimir has a glass chin that I will break.”</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“It’s the biggest challenge of my career. I’d like to become the first heavyweight champion from France.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mormeck at 5”10” and 215 pounds will have to cope with a tremendous size differential against Klitschko, who is 6’6” and weighs 245 pounds.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Wladimir, borrowing from Joe Louis’s famous quote told Mormeck:</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“Everybody has a plan until he gets hit.”</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“So you got a plan and then your getting hit. Then the whole plan is just screwed up. So you can’t really follow the plan.”</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“I can imagine what kind of game plan you could have for this fight. Boxing is a chess game. I am definitely going to fight you, play chess with you in the ring and eventually make a checkmate.”</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Wladimir said that he was not taking Jean-Marc lightly and respects his power. Mormeck was able to knock David Haye down before being KO’d himself in their match in 2007, something Klitschko was unable to do.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mormeck will be trained by former Mike Tyson trainer Kevin Rooney for the Klitschko fight. Jean-Marc has won three fights in a row since moving up to the heavyweight ranks.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Wladimir has not been defeated since his KO loss at the hands of Lamon Brewster in 2004. Klitschko had an epiphany after losing to Brewster, when even his brother Vitali suggested that it may be a good idea for him to hang up the gloves. Since taking on Emmanuel Steward however, Wladimir has been virtually unbeatable becoming a dominant heavyweight champion in the process. </span></span></span></i></div><div class="art-PostContent"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Few boxing fans are giving 39-year-old Jean-Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KO’s) much of a chance to beat IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) on December 10th at the ESPRIT arena, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.<span id="more-84517"></span> </span></span><br />
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</span></span></u></div><div class="art-PostContent"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">This would appear to be a huge mismatch,but you never know what can happen when you’ve a guy with a weak chin like Wladimir facing a puncher like Mormeck. There is a real possibility for an upset in this fight, because Wladimir often misses with his right hands when he throws them from long distance.</span></span></div><div class="art-PostContent"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mormeck, with his short arms and big power, he’ has the perfect leverage to make Wladimir pay for every missed punch. If Mormeck can connect with a right hand or a left hook to the off of one of Wladimir’s misses, it could be all over. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">I don’t imagine a scenario where Wladimir will punch himself out like he did in his fights against Lamon Brewster and Ross Purity. This is more of Corrie Sanders type of situation where Wladimir goes into the fight without any respect for Mormeck’s power and runs into a big shot from the Frenchman while winging shots. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The one good thing that Wladimir has going for him now compared to in the Purity, Brewster and Sanders fight is that Wladimir knows how to hold when he’s hurt. He may need this if Mormeck connects with one of his power shots. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Another problem for Wladimir is that he’s facing a guy much smaller than him in this fight. Mormeck is really only 5’10″ if that, and the 6’6″ Wladimir is going to be fighting at a height that he’s not accustomed to. Wladimir is going to be in a strange situation where he’s punching at a height that ‘s not really used to and that’s could be a big disadvantage for him. As long as Wladimir uses his jab and fights on the outside, he’ll be okay but if he’s throwing left hooks and right hands, Mormeck can get him. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> World heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) will be fighting former cruiserweight champion Jean-Marc Mormeck (36-4-22 KO’s) on December 10 at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The announcement, rumored for some time, was not a surprise. Wladimir will be making the 11th defense of his 2nd title reign against the 39 year old Mormeck. The match against Mormeck will be the 20th world heavyweight title fight that Klitscko has been involved in. Overall he is 17-2 in title fights.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Perhaps realizing his match with Jean-Marc would be a difficult fight to sell, Wladimir immediately began to hype Mormeck’s talent. He was quoted by the Associated Press as saying:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“I know that I am the favorite in all of my fights but I also know that each opponent is motivated to be in the best shape ever when he fights me. Mormeck is one of the most experienced fighters I have ever faced. He has had many world title fights, has a very good technique, can take a lot of punches and is very intelligent inside the ring. To underestimate him would be a fatal mistake.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“I can imagine what the odds will look like for me against Wladimir Klitschko, but I know my skills.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mormeck was KO’d by David Haye in 2007 in the 7th round after knocking Haye down in the 4th round. Mormeck took two years off after the loss to Haye and returned as a heavyweight, where he has won three fights against 2nd tier opposition.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Jean-Marc conceded that he would have thought long and hard before agreeing to fight Vitali Klitscko, but feels that he has a good chance against Wladmir who he accused of having a “glass chin”. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The Mormeck fight will be Wladimir’s first match since his one sided victory over David Haye on July 2nd. The Haye bout was heavily hyped and many gave the “Hayemaker” a good shot at carrying the championship back to England.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Whatever the reasoning was for Wladimir to choose such a soft opponent as Mormeck is not clear. Many boxing fans around the world were for the first time starting to show him the respect he has sought for so long. To be quite blunt Mormeck does not belong in the same ring with Wladimir. He has neither the credentials nor the size to legitimately compete with Wladimir Klitschko. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Unwittingly or not “Dr. Steelhammer” has placed himself in the position no fighter should ever be in. For Klitschko at the age of 35, a victory over Mormeck does nothing to secure or advance his legacy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Jean-Marc Mormeck is 39 years old, five-foot-eleven and a puffed-up cruiserweight to boot.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Are these the kind of title defenses that will truly create a “legacy” for Wladimir Klitschko?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Only if he doesn’t look good in the process. That’s the way the world works.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Is he entitled to a “gimme” fight or two? Or three?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">I guess that depends on whether you feel the multi-belt heavyweight champion deserves a breather (that’s not a typo; we didn’t mean “brother”).</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">He probably does, since he most recently disposed of the would-be menace that is David Haye, in an atmosphere that does not have a lot of worthwhile challengers.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">This next fight for him is set for December 10 in Germany, and it’s a good thing it’s there, because that is one of the few places it could possibly be sold.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Just so we’ve got everything in order, the titles that will be at stake are: the WBA Super World heavyweight title, the IBF and WBO heavyweight titles, and the IBO (International Boxing Organization) championship. Of course, all that hardware means more to the fighters than it does to anyone else.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mormeck is 36-4 with 22 KO’s and has “established” himself as a heavyweight with fights against Fres Oquendo and Timur Ibragimov. Those fights were very carefully placed in “friendly” territory. The Ibragimov fight in particular may have been a bit of a robbery; Mormeck won a split decision, in a place (France) where an opponent coming from overseas (Ibragimov is from Uzbekistan, but lives in Florida) is behind the eight-ball from the beginning and has to basically knock someone out with a two-by-four to win a fight.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Another thing – Mormeck was knocked out by Haye (in a cruiserweight title fight), which kind of takes away any of the suspense that might possibly exist in this upcoming matchup, even for those members of the media who would like nothing better than to shill for it.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The silly part of this whole thing is that anybody was even talking about Klitschko having a rematch with Haye, who dodged contact and pissed away his opportunity to really vault himself into the big time when he fought Klitschko on July 2.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Maybe his worthiness (or lack of same) provides a proper perspective for this encounter.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">At the same time, Klitschko has done his best to sell the fight by saying that to seriously underestimate his foe could be “a fatal mistake.”</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">To be fair, Mormeck is hardly without ability.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">He lost two of his first five pro fights, before really starting to come into his own, first as a light heavyweight, as he won the WBA Inter-Continental title in 2000 with a win over Livin Castillo. At one point he went on a tear of eight straight KO’s, although over the course of his career, only 22 of his 36 wins were achieved inside the distance.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">He actually held a cruiserweight title on two different occasions, beating Virgil Hill for it in February 2002, making four defenses of it, annexing the WBC crown by beating the previously undeefated Wayne Braithwaite. He lost to O’Neill Bell and then beat him in the rematch to regain his belts, then was beaten by Haye. Then it was his choice to move up in weight, as it is with most fighters who lose a belt or a big fight.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">You’ve got to affix the blame to SOMETHING, after all.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">And there is the added attraction of possibly making more momney. He is following in the footsteps of Tomasz Adamek, another former light heavy and cruiserweight who got his title shot against a Klitschko, and who lost (in a rough moment for the CJ prediction machine).</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mormeck has mentioned to reporters that he had Haye on the floor early in their fight and that this time he’ll “finish the job.” It might have been a better idea to finish the job THEN, of course, but that’s another discussion for another time. It’s one thing for the Klitschko brothers to fight undersized cruiserweights, but if you are going to promote such a thing, at least get someone who brings the threat of a big punch into the proceedings. Even through Haye refused to engage, that was something he had – on paper anyway – that he could hang his hat on.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mormeck has not beaten a fighter with a winning record, inside the distance, since March 2003, when he defeated Olaksandr Hurov in what was his first appearance in the United States.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Enjoy your paid vacation, Wladimir.</span></span><br />
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Read more: </span></span><a href="http://www.boxinginsider.com/columns/klitschko-vs-mormeck-everyones-entitled-to-a-breather-i-guess/#ixzz1c2YqBcOW"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">http://www.boxinginsider.com/columns/klitschko-vs-mormeck-everyones-entitled-to-a-breather-i-guess/#ixzz1c2YqBcOW</span></span></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9090565915032238791.post-27255561909856890812011-10-01T00:01:00.000-07:002011-10-01T00:01:36.664-07:00Vitali Klitschko Not Too Big, Just Too Good, Says Tomasz Adamek<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;"></span><br />
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">By Johnny Walker</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">It’s a phrase that has been repeated like a zen mantra by many boxing “experts” ever since WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko easily dominated top challenger Tomasz Adamek a few weeks back:</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8158" height="300" src="http://www.boxinginsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/200px-Tomasz_Adamek_10.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="200px-Tomasz_Adamek_10" width="200" /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“The Klitschko brothers are just too big for the competition.”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><a name='more'></a>Ideas repeated so often in the media tend to become truisms, but a closer look at this assumption tells a different, more complex story. As Adamek himself tells Fightnews.com in a recent interview, “This night in Wroclaw, Vitali could have been five inches shorter and he would still defeat me, his physical qualities were just part of the equation.</span><br />
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“Simply he was great that night and I was just average. The story ends there,” says Adamek.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">And indeed, Adamek had defeated Michael Grant, at 6’7” and 260 pounds as large a man as Vitali Klitschko, on the way to his heavyweight world title bout, and had also triumphed over 6’6”, 285 pound Kevin McBride. If height were the only determining factor for being a successful heavyweight, you’d think that fighters like Grant and McBride, as well as Julius Long (7’1”), Ray Austin (6’6”), Tye Fields (6’8”), Lance Whitaker (6’8”), Jameel McCline (6’6”) and others would have done a lot better than they have to this point in time. So there must be another reason besides mere height for the success of Vitali and his shorter (6’6”) world heavyweight champion brother, Wladimir.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Likewise, for those who complain that the Klitschkos routinely outweigh their opponents and say that this is why, along with their height, they are able to dominate: again, the facts don’t necessarily bear this line of thinking out. George Foreman was outweighed by his opponents only 11% of the time, while Sonny Liston’s average was 18%. The Klitschkos stats are approximately 27% for Vitali, and 46% for Wladimir, meaning Wlad has been outweighed in almost half of his fights, while champions like Foreman and Liston more often had a so-called “weight advantage” in their fights than has either Klitschko brother.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">So a mere change to a “super heavyweight division,” touted by some boxing types as necessary because of the Klitschkos’ continuing success (where were these people when 6’5”, 250 pound Lennox Lewis was dominating?), is not necessarily going to achieve the result these critics are looking for: the end of Klitschko supremacy. The brothers have beaten all comers, fighters both bigger, smaller, and the same approximate size as them, with stunning regularity for most of the last decade. And their size, while a factor, is not the only reason for this.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Great size, without the requisite fine skills to take advantage of that attribute, obviously just makes a heavyweight fighter the next Julius Long or Tye Fields, not the next Wlad or Vitali. Adamek sums it up when he admits that against the elder Klitschko brother, he was simply beaten by the far better man on the night.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“There’s no reason to panic because I’ve lost one fight against best heavyweight in the world, Vitali Klitschko,” Adamek says to Fightnews.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">“To all who are saying that I should go back to the cruiserweight division, I have one message – it will not happen. I will end my career as a heavyweight. You’ll still see me fighting the best, no matter how tall and big they are.”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Source: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.boxinginsider.com/headlines/vitali-klitschko-not-too-big-just-too-good-says-tomasz-adamek/">http://www.boxinginsider.com/headlines/vitali-klitschko-not-too-big-just-too-good-says-tomasz-adamek/</a></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9090565915032238791.post-5610874196821569672011-09-30T18:21:00.000-07:002011-10-01T00:02:28.576-07:00Wladimir Klitschko vs Jean Marc Mormeck: Fight Close for December 10<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><a name='more'></a>This is a truly lousy fight for Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO), who is coming off of a 12-round decision win over David Haye on July 2, which was one of the year's most-hyped fights, and in some ways one of the year's most disappointing. The year's two most-hyped heavyweight fights have, in fact, been the Klitschko brothers against former cruiserweight champions (Haye and Tomasz Adamek), and on Saturday especially, we saw that the size differential was just too much when Vitali had an easy time with a game but greatly outsized Adamek.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Unfortunately, the 39-year-old Mormeck is not only even smaller than Adamek, he's well past his prime, too. Since losing the cruiserweight championship to David Haye in 2007, the 5'11" Mormeck has fought three times. He took two years off before returning as a heavyweight to defeat club fighter Vinny Maddalone by eight-round decision. After that, he got a very controversial decision win over Fres Oquendo, and most recently, beat Timur Ibragimov via split decision on December 2, 2010.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mormeck (36-4, 22 KO) is in no way a legitimate challenge for Klitschko, and if the fight is signed, it will deserve the criticism that will come its way. The Frenchman is too small, too old, and hasn't really earned the shot at all. He won't have a prayer.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Source:</span><a href="http://www.badlefthook.com/2011/9/12/2419710/wladimir-klitschko-vs-jean-marc-mormeck-fight-close-for-december-10">http://www.badlefthook.com/2011/9/12/2419710/wladimir-klitschko-vs-jean-marc-mormeck-fight-close-for-december-10</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">This really makes you wonder about Wladimir. He doesn’t need soft record-padding fights like this. There are plenty of worthy heavyweights out there that would seem to be a much better fight for Wladimir than picking a guy that is short and old. Mormeck is only 5’11″, and will be giving way over six inches in height and another seven inches in reach. This is essentially means that Wladimir can stand on the outside and jab Mormeck at will if he wants to and Mormeck will never be able to lay a glove on Wladimir.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mormeck does have respectable power if he you stand in front of him with your guard down. I’m quite sure he could knock Wladimir out if he bent forward low enough for Mormeck to land his shots without having to jump up in the air or stand on his tippy toes to reach Wladimir’s chin. But short of a lucky home run punch, Mormeck is going to take a beating and get knocked out. The only way this doesn’t get stopped is if Wladimir fights another safty-first fight like he did against former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye in last fight in July.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Wladimir Klitschko could pursue a 15th straight win in defense of his RING, WBO, WBA and IBF heavyweight belts against 39-year-old former cruiserweight titleholder Jean Marc Mormeck, RingTV.com has learned. The fight would take place at the ESPRIT arena in Düsseldorf, Germany, on Dec. 10.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">"There just isn't much competition out there for him," said the source.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mormeck (36-4, 22 KOs) has won three straight heavyweight bouts since being dethroned as WBA and WBC cruiserweight beltholder in November of 2007 by David Haye (25-2, 23 KOs), whose 15-fight winning streak was ended by Klitschko (56-3, 49 KOs) via unanimous decision in July.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Mormeck was also stopped in the 10th round in January of 2006 by O'Neil Bell (26-4-1, 24 KOs), whom he then decisioned two fights and fourteen months later to regain the WBA and WBC belts.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Source:</span><a href="http://ringtv.craveonline.com/rumors/articles/169054-wladimir-klitschko-vs-mormeck">http://ringtv.craveonline.com/rumors/articles/169054-wladimir-klitschko-vs-mormeck</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9090565915032238791.post-43579343524738970742011-04-05T07:54:00.000-07:002011-04-05T07:55:14.161-07:00Klitschko vs Haye this Summer?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"></span><br />
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The IBF, IBO and WBO world champion was due to face 'Del Boy' in December but the bout was rescheduled for April when Klitschko suffered a torn abdominal muscle.<br />
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A failure to properly recover from that injury forced the Ukrainian to call off the revised meeting and he subsequently signed a deal to fight WBA champion David Haye.<br />
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Haye's camp have set Klitschko a May deadline to prove his fitness by and the 34-year-old plans to start his training soon.<br />
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He said: "I'm still recovering after my injury and in a couple of weeks I will be fit and ready for the preparations.<br />
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"If I can't perform then my brother will step in the ring because he's been in this division a very long time.<br />
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"I'm very happy that David Haye eventually signed the contract, it will be the third time we've tried to fight each other.<br />
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"I think he chose me as the younger brother because he does not think I'm so tough - but he will get knocked out."<br />
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A number of potential venues are being discussed for the fight, which will take place on either June 25 or July 2.<br />
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However the Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen football stadiums in Germany are thought to be the front runners, with both holding upwards of 60,000 spectators.</span></div><div class="itemFullText" style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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Negotiations between both camps had been difficult in the past, as both parties blamed each other for the fight never materializing. And after Wladimir announced that he was to defend his IBF and WBO titles against Britain’s Dereck Chisora on April 30th, it seemed that a fight between the two champions would never happen.</span><br />
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But after Wladimir pulled out of the rescheduled fight claiming injury, sceptics began wondering if a unification fight with WBA belt holder, David Haye, was on the horizon.<br />
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Thankfully, for the sport of boxing and the fight fans, they were right, as the £40 million showdown was confirmed to go ahead in Germany on June 25th or July 2nd.<br />
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Naturally, fight fans will be pleased that both fighters have finally agreed to meet, but at the same time a feeling of doubt will also creep in, given the history of this potential match-up and the breakdowns of communications between both camps.<br />
Will Haye pull out injured? Or will Wladimir’s torn stomach muscle resurface and put a halt to the fight? It is highly unlikely, but ‘The Wladimir and Haye Show’ has been going on for quite a while now, and it is a show in which anything is possible.<br />
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Be optimistic for sure, because the fight has been signed and sealed, but we will wait and see if It gets delivered!</span><br />
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<figcaption style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Vitali Klitschko, left, celebrates with his brother Wladimir Klitschko after retaining his WBC heavyweight title. One of them will fight David Haye next. Photograph: Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images<a name='more'></a></figcaption></span></figure><br />
<div id="article-body-blocks" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">David Haye will know within a month when and where he will next defend his WBA world heavyweight title. And a week or so after that he will learn which of the two Klitschko brothers, Vitali or Wladimir, will be across the ring from him.</span></div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The latest deadlines emerged on Sunday and they highlight the nit-picking that has plagued negotiations between Haye and the Klitschkos as they edge towards unification of the four recognised heavyweight titles they hold between them.</span></div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Adam Booth, Haye's trainer and manager, said after further talks with the Klitschkos' manager, Bernd Bönte, in Cologne (where Vitali kept his WBC belt in a disappointing one-round stoppage of the reluctant Cuban Odlanier Solís) that the short odds are it will be against Wladimir, the WBO and IBF champion, in Germany on 2 July.</span></div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">However, Booth revealed Wladimir is still struggling with a stomach muscle injury. And he believes him. "Third week of April we will make an announcement," Booth said. "By the first week of May, Wladimir will have to tell us if he is fit to fight."</span></div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">If Wladimir fails to recover by then from the injury he claims twice caused him to withdraw from title defences against Dereck Chisora, Vitali will step in, a double-barrelled arrangement surely unique in the history of boxing.</span></div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">What the competing parties have yet to do, having settled on an even split of all revenues, is find a suitable place and time for the biggest heavyweight title fight since Lennox Lewis beat Vitali nearly eight years ago. "Monte Carlo has been rumoured," Booth said, "South Africa, Switzerland, Germany, Moscow ..."</span></div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Booth and Haye have already conceded the fight will not be in the UK. Bönte said there are three major football stadiums in Germany that appeal: Düsseldorf (51,000), Gelsenkirchen (capacity, 61,000) and Dortmund (80,000).</span></div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Booth would no doubt rather be trapped in a lift with the tax man than share a city with the forthright Bönte but they will fly together to New York this week to talk to HBO and Showtime executives about American TV coverage.</span></div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">"I would imagine after a couple of days," Booth said, tongue in cheek, "we should have a lot of time to talk. Then, it will kick on from there. It will be the icing on the cake."</span></div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">But neither Booth nor Bönte is bothered about the fight being in the so-called capital of the business, Las Vegas, because they can make more money in Europe, perhaps as much as £50m. Vitali, meanwhile, continues his reign as WBC champion but his German fans were unhappy with the manner of his win.</span></div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Solís, who has grown fat in America on the delights of boxing capitalism since defecting from Cuba in 2006, rolled over on a right knee he reckoned was wrecked, pain compounded by a glancing tap to his temple at the end of round one.</span></div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Klitschko remonstrated with him loudly to get up but Solís's body language shouted resignation. He later went to hospital for an operation on his cruciate ligaments and might not fight for a year, his volatile manager, Ahmet Oner, said later.</span></div><div style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">A pre-existing knee injury? An injury that occurred that moment? Something else altogether?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The bottom line to everyone who tuned in: Vitali Klitschko’s title defense against Odlanir Solis on Saturday night in Cologne, Germany, was a colossal disappointment and another black mark on a struggling heavyweight division.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The fight wasn’t three minutes old when Solis’ right knee seemed to give out as he retreated after taking a grazing blow to the temple and he fell onto his back. The Cuban immediately grabbed the right knee with both gloves but then managed to get to his feet.<br />
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<a href="http://cdn.ringtv.craveonline.com/images/stories/klitschko-solis-photo2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="alt" border="0" height="280" src="http://cdn.ringtv.craveonline.com/images/stories/klitschko-solis-photo2.jpg" style="max-width: 648px;" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Solis, hobbling badly, apparently couldn’t put weight on the right leg and that was that. The referee stopped the disaster of a fight at the end of the round.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Television analyst Lennox Lewis, working the fight for Epix, suggested without evidence that Solis might’ve had a pre-existing injury.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><img alt="alt" src="http://cdn.ringtv.craveonline.com/images/stories/klitschko-solis-photo3.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 7px; max-width: 648px;" />Of course, that’s possible but Solis jumped up and down during warm-ups and moved well during the short fight. He lunged in quickly a few times in an attempt to land combinations, an apparent indication that he had two strong legs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Only one thing seems to be certain at the moment.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">“I’m sure there’s going to be an investigation,” Lewis said.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The fight had more build-up in the U.S. than a typical Klitschko fight in Europe because the new television network Epix broadcasted it here, both on TV and on its Web site.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">So many fans tuned in to watch the fight on the Internet that the site because overloaded and went down about a half hour before fighttime, although it was back up in time for the opening bell.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">That means thousands who had barely settled in front of their computers were disappointed – and probably disgusted.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">They certainly weren’t alone. Imagine the estimated 20,000 who crammed into the indoor Lanxess Arena in Cologne expecting a competitive fight or another dominating performance by Klitschko or maybe a dramatic knockout.<br />
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</script></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">In the end, they were left with nothing. They undoubtedly left the arena seething.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">And what about the throng that watched the fight live on the jumbo screen in Time Square? That was a great idea on someone's part, a chance to promote both Epix and the sport in an unusual way. Talk about a flop. The folks at Epix must be devastated.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Should we blame Solis? Not yet. We have to give him the benefit of the doubt until we learn more about the apparent injury.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">If doctors or anyone else can determine that it <i>was</i> pre-existing and he hid that fact to collect his purse, then he deserves what he gets. Sometimes knees give out without warning, though. It might’ve been a simple case of very bad luck.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">All Solis said was: “It was definitely my knee. It could be that I took a wrong step.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">These things in happen in boxing, like it or not. We must absorb the blow and move on.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Here’s the good news: We finally have some truly compelling heavyweight matchups in our near future.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Wladimir Klitschko has agreed to fight David Haye this summer in the most-anticipated heavyweight matchup in years if Klitschko has recovered sufficiently from a stomach injury.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">If he can’t fight, then Vitali Klitschko will step in and face the talented Briton. We win either way.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">And the Klitschkos also have agreed that one of them will fight Tomasz Adamek, one of the best fighters in the world pound for pound and a legitimate challenge to the Klitschkos’ long-standing supremecy.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We’re terribly disappointed now after what happened on Saturday but better days lie ahead.</span><br />
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</script></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Round 1—Klitschko using the jab to keep Solis at bay early. Not unusual. Solis throws four punches in first minute and nails Klitschko with a overhand right. Solis throws a combination and misses with a right hand. Solis showing good speed early. Klitschko still utilizing jab. Solis had success, but Klitschko keeps pressuring and puts Solis down for the count. Replay shows Klitschko landing a right hook that land on the top of Solis’ head.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
Klitschko goes to Solis’ corner and complains he quit. He definitely looked hurt. Crowd is booing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I was prepared to show a very good fight, but it’s one punch and game over.”<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9090565915032238791.post-73016559559891857162011-03-19T17:28:00.000-07:002011-03-19T17:28:33.435-07:00Vitali Klitschko Knocks Out Odlanier Solis in One Round<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="article-photo-wrapper" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f1f1f1; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 340px;"></span></span></span><br />
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</script></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fight will be shown live on the premium network Epix, which specializes in video-on-demand. The fight can be accessed through the Epix website by both subscribers and non-subscribers.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A free two-week trial can be used by non-subscribers to view the fight live. No credit card or payment information is necessary before or after viewers sign up.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vitali Klitschko def. Odlanier Solis via KO in round one.</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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Not unusual. Solis throws four punches in first minute and nails Klitschko with a overhand right. Solis throws a combination and misses with a right hand. Solis showing good speed early. Klitschko still utilizing jab. Solis had success, but Klitschko keeps pressuring and puts Solis down for the count. Replay shows Klitschko landing a right hook that lands on the top of Solis’ head.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Klitschko goes to Solis’ corner and complains he quit. He definitely looked hurt. Crowd is booing.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I feel Solis is very fast, pretty fast, but it was a hard punch,” Klitschko said in the post-fight interview.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I am sorry for everyone who wanted to see long fight, and I hit him with a right hand.”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It would be very interesting to what doctor’s say after the medical exam, and I know he got hit hard, but I don’t know whether or not he wanted to fight.”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I was prepared to show a very good fight, but it’s one punch and game over.”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I feel great. I have a lot of experience. I have a feeling nobody in the world can beat me.”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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Jozsef nagy by eight-round unanimous decision.</strong></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sky Sports Results: Liam Walsh defeats Jon Kays via tenth round TKO.</strong></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Results from Wigan, United Kingdom will begin at 4:30p.m. ET on Sky Sports in the UK. The results will also be posted here. It features a 12-round super-featherweight bout between Liam Walsh (10-0, 7 KO) and Jon Kays (13-1, 4 KO).</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kays had success early in the bout, throwing combinations as Walsh was still stuck in a feeling out process. Kays outlanded Walsh 16 to 15 in total punches through the first two rounds. Both boxers showed solid defense and avoided the majority of shots.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kays’ success continued into the third round as a huge gash appeared above Walsh’s right eye due to an unintentional headbutt.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walsh regained his momentum in the fourth by opening up with more body shots. A left hook near the end of the round rocked Kays. Kays couldn’t hold on to avoid the knockdown and went down with 15 seconds left in the round. He got up with a few seconds left on the clock.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fifth round was close as Kays remained defensive throughout after the knockdown occurred in the previous round.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walsh outlanded Kays in total punches 54 to 46 through six rounds.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kays pressured Walsh in the middle rounds as Walsh looked for a big left hook that gave him the knockdown in the fourth.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kays hurt Walsh in the fifth with a straight right but could not capitalize. Amazing effort displayed by Kays after being dropped early.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walsh rallied in the ninth with his jab and effective hooks to the body of Kays.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The action picked up in the tenth as both fighters slugged it out in the center of the ring. Kays is visibly fatigued and fell to the canvas after Walsh opened up with a combination to the body. The referee waved off the bout before Kays couldn't get back to his feet. Brutal finish by Kays.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://bleacherreport.com/">http://bleacherreport.com</a></span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9090565915032238791.post-48643306896642898922011-03-19T06:20:00.000-07:002011-03-19T06:20:44.325-07:00Vitali Klitschko promises to KO unbeaten Solis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/sports/photos/2011/03/18/klitschko-solis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><img alt="WBC titleholder Vitali Klitschko, left, and Cuban Odlanier Solis of Cuba, seen Monday, square off in a rare matchup of Olympic heavyweight champions. 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</script></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Former Olympic champion Odlanier Solis challenges WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko in Cologne on Saturday with an unbeaten record and his best physical shape in years.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Solis is nine years younger than 39-year-old Klitschko, whose record is 41-2, with 38 knockouts.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"My boxer is at the ideal weight to beat Vitali Klitschko. No more, no less. Just enough," Solis trainer Pedro Luis Diaz said.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Solis, also a three-time amateur world champ, has struggled with weight problems since he defected from Cuba in December 2006.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diaz said it was different this time.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Solis's preparation has been designed and prepared, down to the smallest detail," he said. "Vitali does not know what kind of trouble he is in for. Odlanier is in the prime of his career."<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Solis is one of the strongest opponents in my career," Klitschko said.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We've reviewed Vitali's opponents over the years and saw that none of them have the quality of Solis," Diaz said. "Not in speed nor movement, nor the boxing IQ. On Saturday there will be a surprise."<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I can fight 12 rounds at a high tempo but the fight won't last 12 rounds," Klitschko said. "There are good amateurs from Cuba but it's different in the professional game."<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I'll win in the 12th, maybe earlier. I'll win in any case," Solis said.<br />
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</script></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Klitschko vs. Solis weigh-in results are in, and Solis showed up in excellent condition. In fact, he came in at the lowest weight he's over fought at as a professional boxer in his career, dating back four years and 17 fights.<br />
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</script></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The most awaited event has finally come true. A big night of heavyweight boxing between the champion Vitali Klitschko who will be facing Odlanier Solis at Cologne Germany on the 19th of March 2011. A big fight that has been known to all about that Vitali Klitschko the champion will be turning 40 years old this year. Klitschko said that he will do all the best he can to win this fight against Solis, And finally Klitschko said maybe this will be his last fight in the ring, win or lose for he finally come up to a decision to retire after this fight against Solis.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">About the predictions of the <a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/"><b>Klitschko vs Solis</b></a> fight all I can say is that Vitali Klitschko had already experienced fighting stronger opponents before. And also this is not his first time to defend his title. He has the height advantage the power punch and most of all he has the support of the crowd in Germany. In the <b><a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/">Klitschko Solis fight</a></b> I can only think that Vitali Klitschko would defend his title successfully.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9090565915032238791.post-47669872279376961262011-03-09T06:58:00.000-08:002011-03-13T07:50:25.938-07:00Klitschko vs Solis Fight For the Heavyweight Belt<div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span><br />
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</script></div><span class="Apple-style-span">Scheduled heavyweight fight, <a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/"><b>klitschko vs solis</b> </a>on March 19 2011 at the Lanxess-Arena in Cologne, Germany. Vitali Klitschko will have his defend of his title from the challenger Odlanier Solis who's ranked #1 in the WBC heavyweight division.</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">A 30 year old Cuban but resides in Florida has an impressive amateur record of 224 fights and 227 of these fights are victorious. As an amateur fighter he have been successful to achieve three times as a world champion in his amateur fights and also got the gold medal at Athens 2004. To become Vitali Klitschko's mandatory challenger, Odlanier Solis fortunately won a 10th-round disqualification victory against his opponent, Ray Austin in their title elimination bout held at Miami last December 17, 2010. As a professional, Odlanier Solis holds an impressive record of 17 wins with 12 of those victories are by way of knockout.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #cccccc; text-align: center;"><a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSME90ltASpaRyu6eVLy7dEORAhTmhXIc4bV130Xer300lLLsoedLNNCTOxq1qLdDC7x_gx-i2O1OVSLMoMESWxZHWVvqeHfxCJk9VBXB5TGaLm20-rbml1PvuHggMZ47VjfzVCMQOIMs/s320/Klitschko+vs+Solis.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Odlanier Solis: "The Klitschkos seem to think that I am just another opponent like the last tomato cans they cherry-picked so Vitali could easily beat them up. But I am not only the mandatory challenger. I have been the best amateur fighter in the world and I will prove that I am the best professional fighter as well. Klitschko should be afraid to lose his title. I will end his career.</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Across the ring, Vitali Klitschko a 39 years old heavyweight champion with an impressive record of 41 wins and 38 of these are by way of knockout and just been defeated twice due to unwanted muscle injuries. Vitali Klitschko's knockout percentage can be rate as high as 92 percent based on his record. In fact, Vitali Klitschko is the fourth heavyweight boxer to win the heavyweight belt thrice since the time of Muhammad Ali, Evander Hollyfield and Lennox Lewis. His last fight was a victory against the former champion Shannon Briggs by way of unanimous decision last October 2010 at Hamburg. And in Lanxess-Arena in Cologne klitschko vs solis fight will be held.</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Vitali Klitschko: "I have heard and read different quotes from Solis saying that I tried to avoid him. This is nonsense. There's a reason why I'm WBC Champion and I am proud of holding the same title that Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis held. I will show inside the ring that I am the strongest heavyweight champion and I am 100 percent sure I will successfully defend my title. But I know Solis is a very tough opponent and I will not underestimate him."</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Bernd Bonte, Managing Director of Klitschko Management Group (KMG): " We are glad we have a signed contract and a go for a March 19 <b><a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/">Klitschko Solis fight</a></b> in Cologne. Solis is definitely one of Vitali's toughest opponent. I think its a very interesting fight for the audience.</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
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</div>The WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko shall defend his title against Cuban fighter Odlanier Solis on March 19, 2011 and this <a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/">Klitschko Solis fight </a>will be at Lanxess-Arena in Cologne, Nordhein-Westfalen, Germany. Also, the <a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/">Klitschko vs Solis</a> fight will be shown live and exclusively on that day on RTL in Germany.</span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Vitali Klitschko lose his fight against Lennox Lewis in 2003 but since then he went on winning 9 consecutive fights over his opponents. Some of them were Corrie Sanders, Chris Areola, Shannon Briggs and Samuel Peter. But the big event he must have to prepare for now is his fight against the Cuban giant Odlanier Solis. The record shows that Oldanier Solis has been undefeated in 17 fights and he is really a strong man in the ring because he won 12 of these fights via knockout. In fact, he is one of the best boxer in 2007. He also won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic games and before that, Solis is a gold medalist also in 6 amateur world boxing championship tournaments.</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Solis had only 17 professional fights as compared to Kiltschko which is 43, and Klitschko had already experienced fighting quality and bigger opponents. In the Kiltschko vs Solis fight, Solis might encounter a problem against Klitschko because his opponent is known for using his strength, speed, height and experience as an advantage in the fight. Solis is 6 inches shorter to Kiltschko and this might cause a lot of trouble for him.</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span">So, for now let us just all wait and be very excited to watch the big event on heavyweight boxing which is the <a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/">Solis vs Kiltschko</a> fight on March 19 in Germany.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9090565915032238791.post-87881566567114281722011-02-26T07:21:00.000-08:002011-03-13T07:16:00.439-07:00Vitali Klitschko vs Odlanier Solis?<div style="color: #cccccc;"><img align="right" alt="Odlanier Solis" height="135" src="http://www.eastsideboxing.com/fotos/solis4344545.jpg" style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;" width="200" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been confirmed by BILD, that the Vitali Klitschko-Nikolai Valuev fight, having had its problems during the negotiations stage, is now "dead." The fight will not happen, confirmed Klitschko's manager, Bernd Bonte, and the German promoter says the fight collapsed because of Don King.<br />
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</div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, the question is, what now for both fighters? Valuev may not have too many options to look at, in truth, and it's fair to say no attractive match-up jumps out for him. As for the reigning WBC heavyweight king nicknamed "Dr Iron Fist," he has said he plans to make 2010 his final year in the ring, and he has made it clear he'd love to get his hands on WBA ruler <span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; text-transform: none !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;">David</span><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w1" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; text-transform: none !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;"> </span><nobr class="itxtrst itxtrstnobr itxthooknobr" id="itxthook0w2nobr" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; bottom: auto; float: none; font-variant: normal; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; top: auto; white-space: normal;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w2" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; text-transform: none !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;">Haye</span></nobr> before exiting.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9090565915032238791&postID=8788156656711428172" name="more22918"></a>. However, with Haye busy for the time being, with his April 3rd fight with former champ John Ruiz, the word is Vitali may look to fight unbeaten Cuban contender Odlanier Soils next - presumably then going back on the Haye-hunt if he's victorious over the man who is currently ranked number-two by the WBC.<br />
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An interesting fight on paper, Klitschko-Solis would likely attract quite a lot of fan attention. 29-year-old Solis, now 15-0(11) and coming off his most impressive pro win to date with his October KO over Monte "Two Gunz" Barrett, must first get past Carl Davis Drummond of Puerto Rico on March 20th (the same day Vitali's brother, Wladimir, defends his <nobr class="itxtrst itxtrstnobr itxthooknobr" id="itxthook1w0nobr" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; bottom: auto; float: none; font-variant: normal; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; top: auto; white-space: normal;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook1w0" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; bottom: auto; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-align: left; text-transform: none !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;">heavyweight</span></nobr> championship against Eddie Chambers). With all due respect to Drummond, 26-2(20), "La Sombre" should have no real problems doing so.<br />
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But what kind of fight would Solis give Klitschko? Well, at a fraction above 6'1," Solis is no giant of a heavyweight, but his reach is, surprisingly, only an inch shorter than that of Vitali's. And at approx 271-pounds (the weight he tipped in at for the Barrett fight), Soils would be the heavier man over Vitali by some twenty-plus pounds.<br />
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This fight, if it happens, really will be a huge step for the former Olympic gold medallist, though. How will Solis handle the pressure? Will his chin hold up to Klitschko's powerful punches? At 271, will Solis have the stamina to last all 12 rounds and be competitive against the 38-year-old? Of course, if the fight does take place and it happens in Germany, the sight of many a <a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/">Klitschko fight</a>, Solis will not be at all fazed by the location; having turned pro in Germany and having fought there many times.<br />
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Put it this way, <a href="http://klitschkovssolis.blogspot.com/">Klitschko vs Solis</a> is at least intriguing, and this possible match-up is a lot better than some other possibilities. At the very least, this fight could not be any worse than Vitali's fight with Kevin Johnson - could it?</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vitali tried to sound respectful of his opponent.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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I won’t let that happen though. I will show why I am the champion and defend my title.”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Solis and his notoriously high-strung manager <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ahmet Oner</strong>, however, soon made it clear that this was no mutual admiration society.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Solis bristled at the notion that Klitschko would be his hardest fight as a professional.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“What makes you think that this will be my toughest fight?" asked Solis.</span></div><div class="article-image" style="background-attachment: initial; 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padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Odlanier Solis says he is not worried about the challenge he faces<br />
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I would understand your question if I would fight an opponent with three fists for the first time…”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okaaaay. </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was nothing compared to the tirade unleashed by Oner when he took the stage.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Usually the team of the challenger starts with thanking the champion’s team for the opportunity,” Oner said.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I’m sorry that we can’t do it this way this time. The Klitschkos did everything they could to avoid this fight. They tried to sneak out of it over and over again. So we don’t thank them," he snarled.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oner was just getting going. Soon he was sounding either supremely confident or supremely delusional (take your pick):</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We will indemnify the German boxing fans for all the [expletive] Klitschko fights they had to endure over the years with one of the greatest heavyweight bouts ever. To me this is history in the making. It is the first time in history that a Cuban A-class heavyweight has left the country to fight for the world championship as a pro," stated Solis' manager. </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Boxing fans will always argue how Ali would have looked against Stevenson and what would have happened if Tyson and Savon would have fought in their primes. In this generation for the first time we have the chance to see what happens when the best Cuban heavyweight fights the best heavyweight of the rest of the world. I put my money on Cuba</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow. A rant worthy of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="aptureLink " id="apture_prvw1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px 4px; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-left-radius: 4px 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px 4px; border-top-width: 0px !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="aptureLinkIcon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://cdn.apture.com/media/imgs/link_icons.gif?v12) !important; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% -1548px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 11px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Baghdad Bob</span></span>.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We will make history and put an end to the era of Klitschko," Oner triumphantly declared.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One might note that we've heard all of this before, including from Solis's Cuban compatriot <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Juan Carlos Gomez</strong>, who talked more vile trash about Vitali than anyone in recent memory before they fought</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gomez's bravado, however, ended the minute Vitali stepped into the ring to face him.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Klitschko had taken note of the threats directed at him, and offered <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">this rejoinder</span>:</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">"[Solis] <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; 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padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9090565915032238791&postID=2639327198379377204" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9090565915032238791&postID=2639327198379377204" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></span>yells that he's going to rid the world of the Klitschkos, but that won't happen because I'm </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; cursor: auto; display: inline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: inherit; word-spacing: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class=" aptureTMMSelection" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; cursor: auto; display: inline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: inherit; word-spacing: inherit;">going to rid the world of him</span><span class=" aptureTMMSelection" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; cursor: auto; display: inline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: inherit; word-spacing: inherit;">."</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; cursor: auto; display: inline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: inherit; word-spacing: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class=" aptureTMMSelection" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; cursor: auto; display: inline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: inherit; word-spacing: inherit;">Source: </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://bleacherreport.com/">http://bleacherreport.com</a></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0