Ruslan Chagaev has dethroned WBA champion Nikolai Valuev. Any thoughts about it?
2007-04-14 21:07:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Boxing
Tremendous fight. Without question the best match heavyweight division has offered since Lewis vs Klitschko in 2003. Chagaev once again demonstrated his fighting spirit, superior technical and tactical abilities, excellent ring movement and defensive skills and convincingly and deservedly won this match in spite of that robbery attempt in the end. He came to the ring totally calm, confident, no fear what so ever and he literally fought a perfect fight from the opening to the final bell. Seeing him overcome Valuev's overwhelming size and reach advantage so easily and outbox him in such dominant fashion was just incredible. His southpaw stance was causing Nikolay a lot of problems. He was off target and walking into really massive left straights and left hooks entire time. Having said that Nikolay also deserves a lot of credit because any lesser man would have definitely been taken out by those shots in no more then five rounds. But he took them all and kept trying and pressing Chagaev right to the final bell, without backing away even once. But he just ran into completely superior boxer and it wasn't to be for him last night.
As I already said it really was an incredible, action packed fight, but the one thing that almost ruined everything in the end were the score cards. 114-114, 115-113, 117-111 - a majority decision. This was clearly one of the biggest robbery attempts in professional boxing recent history, and no question something of Wilfred Sauerland and Don King's doing. I was absolutely disgusted when score cards were announced. Nikolay won one single round in this match - round 8, only because Chagaev decided to take a short breather, slow down a bit and gather strenght for the remaining 4 rounds. In my opinion everything else was, without question, his (I had 119-109 on my score card). But fortunately justice prevailed in the end and he was still crowned a new WBA world heavyweight champion.
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Smitty, with all due respect for the "bible of boxing", your quote is embarrassing here. Perhaps you should watch the match first and then come back with second opinion.
2007-04-15 12:19:12 · answer #1 · answered by balancepriest 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Valuev was always a question mark, the majority of educated opinion was he was been over protected and was spoon fed hand picked opponents. We wondered what would happen if he ever fought a skilled, dangerous opponent. Ruslan Chagaev exposed all the flaws we saw in Valuev and the blogbaba congratulates him on his achievement. I haven't seen the fight yet, so my evalutation will have to wait.
2007-04-14 22:40:10 · answer #2 · answered by blogbaba 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Glad Valuev finally fought a worthy opponent and that he was pretty much as we thought. Would like to see Chagaev attempt to unify the belts.
2007-04-15 09:20:55 · answer #3 · answered by gman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Haven't heard it.
2007-04-15 00:17:19 · answer #4 · answered by Ewan Cow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
none whatsoever.
2007-04-14 21:15:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - MUCH A DO ABOUT NOTHING.
2007-04-15 10:35:52 · answer #6 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no
2007-04-14 21:15:58 · answer #7 · answered by missyb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋