Just watched the Klitschko v. Mercer bout, and I have to tell you, oh fans of the sweet science, Klitschko’s one VERY BAD MAN.
I hope he gets the title shot v. Lewis. If he has the stamina and heart, he will destroy Lewis.
Seriously, the man had overwhelming speed and power. Ray Mercer himself called what he received an “Ass Whoopin”.
I saw it too, and was quite impressed. But did you notice in the post-fight talking heads banter, Lewis’ trainer Emanuel Steward hinted that Lennox may retire after fighting Kirk Johnson as his next fight?
Klitschko may not get a chance against Lewis. But it would be a great fight. Two very big, very fast, hard hitting titans.
“Clit show”?
There was a guy a couple years or so ago. I think his name was Derek Jefferson, he was the only heavyweight I ever saw who ripped an undercut and lifted the guy off of his feet and 5 feet through the air. The guy may not be much of a boxer, but he’s a potential Howitzer on two legs, and damn entertaining. I say let’s finally drop the sporting aspect and the sweet science bullshit about heavyweight boxing, and let two guys who know how to land a punch brought up from the next county fight. Screw technique, I wanna see a couple of comic book freaks trying to kill each other before I shell out 60 bucks for a fight.
over Mercer’s loss last night. I wanted Mercer to win, but knew that it was unlikely.
Here’s an unrelated question: Is anybody else sick of listening to Jim Lampley, Larry Merchant & Jim Lederman? Sometimes I think a couple of highschoolers could do a better job of commentary than those 3 do. Give me Teddy Atlas & Bob Papa any day. What say you?
I agree. Lampley knows nothing about boxing. He’s just a talking head. Merchant is just an idiot. Lederman knows his boxing, but he gives me the creeps. He looks like a serial killer. I like Al Baernstein, myself.
I saw some things in the Lewis-Tyson fight that got me thinking. Every time Lewis threw the uppercut, he was off balance. A good counter puncher would have convinced him not to throw that punch by the second round. His legs didn’t look that steady, either. I think any competent fighter would have beat Tyson that day.
Ahem
Vladimir Klitschko commissioned Rammstein to write a song for him to be his ‘entrance’ music for his bouts. This resulted in the song “Sonne” which was originally entitled Klitschko, thus the ‘countdown’ nature of the song and references to being ‘down for the count’ or ‘raining blows against your chest’ or whathaveyou.
Klitschko decided not to use the song and Rammstein changed it to SONNE and released it as a single from the album Mutter.
There’s your rammstein fact for the day.
I did not know that.
That is weird, wild stuff.