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Are the Klitschko's Boring?

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    #242
    cowzerp
    Registered Users Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    Maravilla33 wrote: »
    What i find funny is you don't rate a lot of old timers. I'm sure you look at footage and think man they're slow and one dimensional but you could easily say the same about Vitali. I don't watch him and think wow hes great. I think hes very big and uses that exceptionally well.

    That's because some of the old timers who are highly rated lacked skill-they where just tough and strong, easily beaten by fighters with good skills such as most average Boxers nowadays-Boxing in the good old days in general was shiite only for 1 or 2 exceptions who stood out as above the rubbish such as Ray Robinson and Joe Louis, and all joking aside they would not be the best now if they where around-they'd be good but just another boxer, They deserve credit for been years ahead of their times.

    Maravilla33 wrote: »
    Some fighters seem to get better with age but its not the norm and Vitali certainly aint one of them.

    Vitali has always been great though and has not diminished, you basing his level off a fight he done without proper use of his left arm for 11 rounds is BS to say the least.

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



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    #243
    Maravilla33
    Registered Users Posts: 524 ✭✭✭Maravilla33


    I'm not basing it on only the Chisora fight. He hasn't looked great in a good while. He's still much better than the lads hes facing but that's not saying a lot. Hes definitely slowed down. No shame in that hes 40.

    Technique wise boxings still the same today as it was in the 50s. There's been no great moves or punches invented or developed has there? The aim of the game is still to hit and not be hit. They fought a lot more back then too so more chance to practice, hone and develop their skills. To call some of the great fighters of yesteryear rubbish is ridiculous.


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    #244
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,025 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    cowzerp wrote: »
    Ray Robinson and Joe Louis, and all joking aside they would not be the best now if they where around-they'd be good but just another boxer, They deserve credit for been years ahead of their times.
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    Please tell me you are joking?

    Matthew Macklin and Lee and Chavez and Martinez and Barker etc. SRR just like them? He'd beat all them in one night, without a break.


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