To suggest as you did that Wlad is 'cleaning up British HW's because Haye wouldn't' is balderdash, plain and simple. Wlad is the best HW in the world- why on earth would he care a tuppenny bit about the likes of Sexton and Chisora? :dunno: I agree that he may be trying to raise a UK profile by fighting Chisora and I suppose it is a straight-forward stay busy fight, but it still a very strange one, however you slice it, because Chisora has done NOTHING, and I do mean NOTHING, to suggest he should be anywhere near a world title shot. MTF
Lewis was the undisputed WC when Vitali fought him and Hide has fought reasonably competatively at world level and held the odd (WBO) bauble. Neither of these had fights with a Klit becuse of their British title credentials :: Similarly, Williams got his shot after knocking out Tyson- had he not done so, he would have never been anywhere near a world title fight. Again, his British champion 'credentials' had very little to do with it. This choice of opponent is every bit as bad as Haye's. At least Haye and Fraudley are going to make a fortune out of their debacle and so the logic is clear, albeit that fight is disgusting from a match-making perpective. What the hell does Wlad get out of this? :dunno: A bit of extra exposure in the UK? A bit of extra cash? MTF
He doesn't. It puts Wlad's name out in the UK scene and in doing so it annoys the shit out of Haye. Haye can't even have his own scene now without fucking Wlad becoming topical, so to speak. This will steal some of Haye's thunder and will also be an area of focus as soon as Haye/Harrison is over. Have you heard this: http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/ibf-orders-heavyweight-box-off-62842 Chisora was one of the names mentioned as part of this tourney. I guess Wlad is just staying ahead of the game, man.
Dude, I am not saying their British credentials had anything to do with anything. I am just saying they have a history of fighting British champions, past, present, future etc. Chisora is the next of those fighters. How many British champs has Haye fought at Heavyweight? Again, I direct you to the fightnews link about the upcoming IBF tournament.
Seriously somebody tell those American kids out there to stop playing football and start being kid dynamites....
I am doing a thesis on how the rise and rise of the Sony Playstation and the availability of Doritos on a hitherto unparalleled scale has killed off countless scores of budding American heavyweights.
I was thinking more along the lines of what Haye did with the beheaded Klitschko t-shirts. Chisora will enjoy his time in the limelight, no matter how short-lived it may be.
I'm actually pretty stoked about this. It may seem unusual, but don't discount the unknown guy. I can remember back in the late 70's when the Champion's team was looking for a marketable fight as boxing popularity was wanning. They chose a local Philadelphia kid that had mostly made a name as a tough guy in local club fights. Well, the rest is history. That unknown kid named Rocky Balboa would turn in the performance of a lifetime and give the champion everything he could handle. In fact, Balboa would win the title less than 3 years later. Never discount the unknown. Damn, what I wouldn't give for one or two exciting HW propspects. Seriously is that too much to ask?
Notice how the introduction of the Sinclair ZX in the 1980's basically killed off Mike Tyson?? Did you ever think of that? Huh? Huh? And once the Megadrive came out it was basically fucking over. Thankfully all the Commies had in 1996 were used Amiga 500's and C64's so they were safe.
I don't know. He beat the shit out of guys like Murray and Senior in sparring so...who knows. I mean, who was the champ around 1999? Julius Francis? Danny Williams? Remember that big strong white dude with the baldy head, Francis former sparring partner?
Well early 90s was when he should have won it but he went for one of those shitty intercontinental belts instead. When Williams was champ he kept losing right before he was due his shot, first to Chingangu and then to that Lithuanian guy on the cut.
Two facts for you: Herbie Hide is a member of MENSA Hide and Bruno both won world heavyweight titles but never won the British belt. Guess which is wrong
Was that his name? A former bricklayer or something. I think that's him. He was incredibly strong and had a ridiculous physique and no punch.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/more-...-for-fighting-dereck-chisora-115875-22638042/ Told you. The bitch can't tolerate that the newspapers and TV had something other than Haye-Harrison to talk about. If Haye thinks he will make more for fighting Harrison than Wlad did for fighting Sam Peter II then he is sorely mistaken. Klitschko got a piece of 60,000 times €100. That is a lot of bread.
What Klitshkos are doing is not fair.They should know better and go away from boxing. This is like a professional Olympic athlete going and competing in the special olympics instead and picking on the poor retards. Bullies.
Without them, the Division would be absolutely fucked, yet some people prepare to hide behind this idiotic notion that they are bad for the game. The belief is that a single unified identifiable champ is necessary. That is odd, for several reasons, not least that {a} It exists nowhere else in the sport. Who is the man at 147? At 168? At 175? {b} Even if there was a single unified MAN, how long before some dissent or dispute crept into the argument? Make no mistake about it, if the Klitschko's were not around, there would be even more ambiguity, you would have 4 different dudes all claiming to be champs.
It would be great ! You would have: Albert Sonsnowski the WBA champ Audley Harrison the IBF champ Chris Arreola the WBO champ Shannon Briggs the WBC champ and then next month you most likely would have all different champions !!!
Well 2 of those are FROM THE USA BABY!!! And everyone knows that Sosnowski and Harrison would never come over the the USA to fight, chickens.