Klitschko/ Briggs: a nightmare?

JD074

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Emanuel Steward says that it's going to be a "nightmare" and a "real rough storm" for Wlad.

"ES: I can't really say but I know one thing Wladimir is going to have to be very alert, and be ready to with stand a real rough storm. Samuel Peter is slow, he is going to throw just that one or two clubbing punches and that is about it, so I never had that much fear about him, but Shannon can put punches together, combinations with both hands and maintain good balance while he is punching, it is going to be a nightmare and we are going to try to with stand that storm, and hope that half way through the fight we start taking control."

Start taking control halfway through the fight?? Okay, but it might be too late by then.

He also said that Briggs "has the fastest hands than anybody with power and is physically a big man, and his biggest problem was him staying focused on training but if he ever gets intense he is the most difficult guy you [Wlad] could ever fight. For three or four rounds he is extremely dangerous..."

Unless this is just "gamesmanship," he's very worried about Briggs.

He also said something a little cryptic about the Brewster fight, "I know things that went on before and during that fight." What the heck does that mean?

Also, Steward thinks that Jack Johnson's victories weren't that "impressive." I found that interesting.

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He is selling the fight, so that people show up to MSG. If he thought Briggs was this good he wouldn't let Wlad fight him, unless the money was huge. Briggs could start out like a house on fire, but will slow down badly after the first round. Briggs is way overweight these days. He is pushing 280, at one time Briggs was a bare 200 pounder. I guess, Gatlin, Landis and Briggs all share the same pharmacist.........
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Wlads' jab will give Briggs huge problems and bust him up in the process. In my humble opinion Wlad has the best jab in boxing today and one of the best overhand rights I have ever seen in the heavyweight division. I was always very impressed with Larry Holmes jab and I believe Wlads maybe even better.Edited by: dkr77
 

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Wlad's jab is much heavier than Holmes' jab. It's a fast Foreman jab. If Wlad had the stamina of a prime Holmes he would almost unbeatable....
 
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