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Yeah he was fun alright then, just rollicking around and trading shots, he was even trying body shots and the lot. Fun fights. That was around 1998 or 1999. 14 years ago. Damn. :doh:
I re-watched Wlad vs Chris Byrd II yesterday. Check out that fight again and watch Wlad pummel Byrd into a bloody mess after the 4th round. Byrd had heart.
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This is entertaining as fuck. This Troy Roberts guy is fun. <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pSfAXC-FK-w?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pSfAXC-FK-w?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object>
Have you got the Monte Barrett one where he rips off half of his face? Wlad was awesome back in the day
so the premise is that wald pussy used to do what he was supposed to, against over matched opposition ?
Those were the days. Standing in my kitchen, trying to tune in the radio and get some reception for the Lewis vs Grant fight which was the main event, Steve Collins and Colonel Sheridan were doing the commentary. No internet, no forums, no nothing. Collins said that Wlad punched like a heavyweight but moved like one too. I think that's the difference betwen Old Wlad and New Wlad. He moves better and punches less today. I got too tired to stay up for the main event, but the people next door had SKY and they got up out of bed at 3Am. Around 4 minutes later I heard them going back to bed. ::
I remeber making a 'count me in' thread after the Mercer fight. Not because of opposition level, but I absolutely loved his style.
I like looking at the old tapes of when he just let his hands go. People rag on about how Lewis would have destroyed him but there was a time when Wlad was sufficiently ignorant of his own limitations to have had a real chance of beating Lewis. Like a guy who walks contentedly on thin ice, not knowing how thin it is, and successfully makes it to the far side of the lake, he might have just gone in, let his hands go, and won. Who knows.
Honestly though...Lewis would have hit him, and Lewis would have hurt him. Too bad Lewis lost to Rahman. Probably would have happened.
That is why I have always said he and Lennox Pussy are equivalently boring. Wlad was one of the best offensive machines ever until the emperor betrayed him and turned him into wald pussy.
I think the quickest sex-change surgery in history was performed on wald by a semi-retired golf player back around 2004 in Hanover. Wald remained a pussy ever since.