Vitaly Klitschko 242.9 lbs Tomasz Adamek 216.1 lbs

Dude, the only Apache in George is the Pizza's. Lots of them.

 

obviously

I must have misread you, I thought you were saying neither guy is right NOW

 

I wonder if there's a little bit of Chinese in Tyson

http://www.celebrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Mike-Tyson-Posing-For-Camera.jpg

http://www.topnews.in/files/Mike_Tyson.jpg

 

the eyes have traces, for sure

George:


Eddie Mustafa Muhammad:



Their distant relative:

 

It's probably Irish.

You know...that squinty Irish look.

 

Oh!! Oh!! I see what you did there!!!

What was the name of the TV show the bottom character was in....:crafty:

 

of course, the famous Wexford Squint

 

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, a ridiculous 1987 film::

 

Oh. I thought it was Monkey Magic. Carry on.

 

No, not in thier countries,.. that's what I mean,.. cold countries,.. with glowing yellow skin,.. not the 'bronze tan' ... :crafty: they're yellow,.. that can only mean one thing, so,.. I guess people should start hating them less.

 

Yes. I foresee SKINS and McDonalds advertisements in their future.

 

so this fight is saturday night Euro time?

 

After this fight, hopefully Adamek will have to put the triangle hat back on, and crack the water buffalo, as a trail of rainbow perspirant ripples through the rice water behind him,..and if you think some asian babies are born large through contamination as such,..a little Adamek run-off in the food supply oughta bust the bellies of asian women like alien,.. a man of much substance your boy dat.

 

:: even I can't follow you at times.

 

I noticed that to.
Be interesting to see in the ring...

 

Well put it this way,.. I recall somebody on here say that Adamek is 'the Pacquiao of Poland' ... I think that's a pretty good encapsulation, given chemical and genetical similarities.

 

I don't know, that doesnt apply to me, I don't care what color skin a fighter has

 

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/09/2398286_p2/klitschko-adamek-imminent-upset.html

Maybe it's just a mood thing.

In the days of my youth, the week following Labor Day was never a favorite because it meant a return to school after an all-too-short summer in Western New York.

And if readjusting to school bus and homework schedules weren't enough, there was always the stark realization that bone-chilling temperatures and early- season snowfalls weren't far away.

So even though I've moved more than 1,100 miles south and haven't so much as grazed a snow shovel in a decade, I'm chalking up holiday grouchiness to subconscious hometown nostalgia.

And though he's does nothing specific to warrant ire, when it comes to weekly boxing columns, Vitali Klitschko is the target of my admittedly illogical Tuesday venom.

Bottom line... I'm just sort of tired of the guy.

I concede that he's been among the best -- if not the very best -- that the heavyweight division's had to offer since he slung the WBO title belt over his shoulder by vanquishing Herbie Hide in 1999.

And given a sudden shoulder flameout against Chris Byrd a year later that could have been fatal given today's "one-loss-and-he's-finished" mentality, it's surely respectable the mammoth Ukrainian has rebuilt both career and street cred with 15 wins in 16 fights since -- all but three by KO.

But that doesn't mean I have to like it.

In fact, while I've seen the bigger older brother of multi-belt champion Wladimir beat an assembly line of overblown wannabes like Samuel Peter and Chris Arreola, he's never once sent me away from a bout thinking, "Holy cow, I just saw an unbeatable fighter."

Instead, I'm more often left combing the rankings for precisely the man who'll handle him.

I initially thought Cuban amateur star Odlanier Solis had the stuff last March, but one glancing blow and one buckled knee later, it was back to the giant-slaying drawing board.

This time, though, I feel a little more confident.

In Polish veteran Tomasz Adamek, the now 40-year-old Klitschko faces an admittedly smaller foe -- the two went chin to forehead in awkward stare-down pics at Monday's final presser -- but one who's more than decisively handled 1,520 pounds of Goliath in six bouts since jumping from cruiserweight.

And unlike Solis and the other Davids who've slung stones toward Vitali since he returned from sabbatical, this one actually seems to mean it when he says he plans to win.

"I know how to beat Vitali Klitschko," Adamek said. "I know that he's a champion, but I'm convinced that Saturday night I will be three-division champion. Trust me, it will happen. Every great story has to end. His great story as a champion will end on Saturday."

Nice speech, kid, but early returns say the odds-makers aren't buying.

Adamek was a giant underdog upon a midday Friday look-in with the folks at World Sports Exchange (wsex.com), who require a $600 bet on the champion to return $100, while a $100 speculation on the challenger would bring back four times the initial investment.

A late-round stoppage or scorecard decision seem the scenarios of choice, with the over/under in rounds set at 9 1/2. It's an even $100 for $100 for forecasting an end before 1:30 of round 10, with the required outlay swelling to $130 to reel back the same $100 in the final 450 seconds or beyond.

Make no mistake, those betting lines make perfect sense when clinically matching a 6-foot-7 behemoth against a challenger six inches shorter, who weighed-in Friday 26 1/2 pounds lighter.

But what might look good on paper loses something in intangibles.

Unlike Peter, Arreola and the other contending flotsam in the heavyweight swamp, Adamek hits the ring with a mantel full of accomplishment from a dozen years as a professional.

He took his first title in 2006 and has fought for crowns five times since -- winning all but once -- while routinely entering as the smaller, quieter and less-menacing option.

By contrast, while Klitschko has always been in condition and surely performed well in vanquishing the likes of Peter, Arreola and Solis -- not to mention J.C. Gomez, Kevin Johnson, Albert Sosnowski and Shannon Briggs -- since Labor Day 2008, it seems decades ago that he met a foil considered anywhere near Adamek's equal among the world's pound-for-pound elite.

If at all.

After facing down myriad sluggers, speedsters and stylists on the way up the scale, it looks from here as if the hometown hero is ready for anything still offered by an older, slower and increasingly more robotic Klitschko, who's lost to arguably the two best all-around fighters -- Byrd and Lennox Lewis -- he's ever encountered on the big stage.

So, come Saturday, let's call it a threesome.

In what's far more likely to resemble death by a thousand cuts than a 36- minute bloodletting, Adamek walks away as WBC champion, sets up a true IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO unification with brother Wladimir and gives me an ear-to-ear smile with a unanimous decision win.

And, if he loses big in three, so what?

It's September, I was going to be angry anyway.

 

:crafty: That's the 'spirit' .

 

Yes it is-ah, yes it is-ah

You watching the Rugby? That Pictish-Faroes admixture is really hurting the Scots against the Romanians right now.

 

The writer praises the fuck out of the WHITE, EUROPEAN Challenger

So what "spirit" is this?

 

Thats cos they are both white Europeans. Which says it all, really. Rock bottom baby.

What sort of a guy praises another guy, and then says he hopes he loses???

 

says who? YOU? Kauki?

The writer ripped on a black guy (Peter) and a Latino (Arreola) and basically offered nothing but praise for the white Polack Adamek (who deserves it, he's a had a good career)

and where did he say he hopes Adamek loses?

 

Vitali. He hopes Vitali loses.

 

He ripped on Peter and Arreola in the same way Hopkins ripped on Haye post - Klitschko fight,... bitterly dissapointed, heartbroken,.. and then blames them for his miseries.

 

because he finds him boring, whats wrong with that?... he's not allowed to have an opinion in an OPINION piece?

you can;t say it is because he's WHITE... the OPPONENT is white as well

Personally, I find Sergio Martinez borderline unwatchable, I wish a real technician would come along and pick him to shreds... I hate Argentinians now?

 

Oddly enough, HBO shit their pants when Dzindzuruk refused to fold and busted him up with the jab at one point in their match.

 

Because he finds Vitali boring

again, that has fuck-all to do with race/nationality

so, the whole position that the two of you are so utterly convinced is the correct one appears to be swiss cheese, at least as far as this particular writer is concerned

He wants Adamek, a Polish man, to win... so where's the racist/nationalist "spirit" you two scratch each other's backs about?

 

oh really?

where?

 

I sort of like Vitali, he's my favorite current heavyweight, not that it means a whole lot ... he's ugly as sin mechanically but he gets the job done and he's tough, I like that

His brother I wouldn't mind seeing go the way of the Dodo, but I'm glad he didn;t lose to some loudmouth chickenshit Athlete-Boxer like Haye... I dislike Wlad, but not enough that I would just root for WHOMEVER