# Vlad v Vitali Klitschko

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vlad-v-vitali-klitschko/511722>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 27, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vlad-v-vitali-klitschko/511722 "2009-09-27T03:54:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vlad-v-vitali-klitschko/511722/1 "2009-09-27T03:54:39Z")

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Talk on the heavyweight fight tonight about Vitali and Vladimir Klitschko getting a championship fight. It seems wrong to me ,but they are champion and number one contender. Brothers fighting in a heavyweight championship fight would be a big deal, but somehow just wrong. Any thought on whether it should happen?

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**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vlad-v-vitali-klitschko/511722/2 "2009-09-27T05:53:43Z")

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Be shocked if that ever came off - they’ve always said they would never fight one another, have they had a recent change of heart? I guess Vitali would be hypothetically favoured, although I’ve not seen him since he came back so don’t know what form he is in recently.

Pretty sure Keith Primeau had a fight with his brother in the NHL, which was an eye-opener. A 30 second flame-up is a different story to 12 rounds of boxing, though - hard to see it happening between two well-adjusted siblings like the Klitschkos.

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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vlad-v-vitali-klitschko/511722/3 "2009-09-29T00:42:02Z")

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During the Mayweather fight they said both brothers are warming to the idea. It would be a huge payoff. But it would turn me off. It seems so perverted.

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**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vlad-v-vitali-klitschko/511722/4 "2009-09-29T01:00:20Z")

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Huh, that doesn’t seem weird to me at all. I would think that they’d like to fight each other. Sure it’s dangerous, but it’s their sport. I think brothers fighting in hockey is way worse. It’s not required in the sport at all.

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Dastardly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@Dick\_Dastardly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dick_Dastardly)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vlad-v-vitali-klitschko/511722/5 "2009-09-29T19:57:18Z")

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Nothing would give me greater pleasure than watching those two laboratory creations beating each other up but it’ll never happen. If it did Vlad would lose to his giant-headed brother Vitali.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vlad-v-vitali-klitschko/511722/6 "2009-09-29T20:35:38Z")

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I would be very, very surprised if they fought.