The buzz surrounding Saturday’s Wladimir Klitschko/Sultan Ibragimov scrap at Madison Square Garden is somewhere in between a bingo game at a senior citizen’s home in Florida, and the lame-O atmosphere that dragged down Pavlik/Taylor II in Vegas last week.
The volume of mail and comments coming in to the TSS mailbox is underwhelming as well, as more folks are interested in discussing the merits of Money Mayweather and Sugar Ray Robinson on all-time pound for pound lists, rather than if and how the undersized Sultan can manage to take down Goliath Klitschko in this heavyweight consolidation match.
I have a couple theories why this IBF/WBO consolidation match isn’t getting fight fans jazzed up like it should..
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Hey, if you want another perspective on the fight, Lou Reed will be live-blogging from in the arena ... http://gameon.msg.com/2008/02/msg-live-follow.html
I love Klitscko but man this one was a stinker. Where were those big right handed bombs most of the fight? I actually think Klitschko didn;t want to knock off one of his Russian counter-parts.
Bring on that Sam Peter rematch. no one has been able to make Dr. Steelhammer work lately.
i think Toney would give any of the Russians major problems.
Theres not a alot of slick vets left with power.
But the Peter fight was alot more exciting and would be a better seller if it happened again.
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