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Heavy Weight Champion of the World...got to meet today

mrmint23mrmint23 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭
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His trainer is my neighbor and they had a signing at the local Mall. Got him to sign a old picture of the first heavyweight fight in Alabama. Real nice guy got to play paintball with him a few years ago during the Alabama Aday tournament.
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  • Beck6Beck6 Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭
    Very cool! Looks like you could take him. Did you talk some smack?
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  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Edited. Ok he's a boxer. But isn't Klitschko the heavyweight champ?
  • seebelowseebelow Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭
    would hate to fight mma with those gloves they have on their hands. i wouldn't be able to turn the ignition key to get away.
    just think of the amount of violence he could unleash immediately.
    cool...you shudda hit him in the head when he wasn't lookin

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  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,130 ✭✭✭
    I like Wilder. But he won't be Heavyweight Champion until he gets in the ring w/ Wlad. Funny thing is it's the WBC title that he has...and for 95% of that belt's history, it WAS the belt. It's the one they gave Joe Frazier for beating Jimmy Ellis after they stripped Ali of it.
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  • JWall037JWall037 Posts: 116


    << <i>Edited. Ok he's a boxer. But isn't Klitschko the heavyweight champ? >>



    He would need a chainsaw in his corner to beat Wladimir.
  • Probstein123Probstein123 Posts: 1,281 ✭
    very cool
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  • flatfoot816flatfoot816 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭
    Nice stuff Dustin.. And the child is a splitting image of you!!
  • seebelowseebelow Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭
    you know I'm abs just teasing with you..actually he is the mma champ..so lethal he has to wear gloves. He's a baaaad man!
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  • mrmint23mrmint23 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭
    Jwall...Wilder went over to Russia last summer and sparred with the Klitscho brothers. According to Wilder's trainer they were very impressed with him. Should be a good fight between some very tall boxers. In person Wilder is nothing like the media is playing him out to be, very quiet and humble.
  • JWall037JWall037 Posts: 116


    << <i>Jwall...Wilder went over to Russia last summer and sparred with the Klitscho brothers. According to Wilder's trainer they were very impressed with him. Should be a good fight between some very tall boxers. In person Wilder is nothing like the media is playing him out to be, very quiet and humble. >>



    Mr. Mint,

    Wilder is a talent, no doubt about it. But here is his biggest problem. He was 32-0 before the Striverne fight. He fought every cab driver west of the Mississippi and beat them all in 2, 3 maybe 4-rounds. Bermane Stiverne, a "fringe" contender a best, and I mean fringe just took him the distance in a pretty uneventful fight. Just that slight move up in class troubled him, despite having all that pop in his glove, a significant height advantage and a significant reach advantage. Wilder has been carefully guided against guys don't fight back. We'll guess what? Dr. Steelhammer fights back. Wladdy has world class boxing skills, a world class jab and world class power. Unless Wladdy's chin doesn't hold up, which hasn't been the case for over decade now, Wilder will prod along while being pummeled for 5 or 6 rounds hoping to land a haymaker until he is put away wet.

    And as for sparring, I never saw a belt transfer during sparring. Also, no one has ever hit Wilder yet. Wait until Wladdy follows a thudding left jab (that Wilder didn't see coming) with a straight right down the pike! Then what? The only thing Mike Tyson ever said that made sense was, "Everyone has a plan, we'll uh, that is until they get hit."
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,715 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i> The only thing Mike Tyson ever said that made sense was, "Everyone has a plan, we'll uh, that is until they get hit." >>



    Joe Louis first said that, not Tyson.

    Of course, only Tyson said, "My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious." LOL..


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  • JWall037JWall037 Posts: 116


    << <i>

    << <i> The only thing Mike Tyson ever said that made sense was, "Everyone has a plan, we'll uh, that is until they get hit." >>



    Joe Louis first said that, not Tyson.

    Of course, only Tyson said, "My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious." LOL.. >>



    My bad, I've always heard that credited to Tyson which I have heard him say during many interviews. Nevertheless, that statement is a truism.
  • seebelowseebelow Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭
    Interesting...I will have to admit that I've heard that credited to mike several different times.....darn new generation....history?

    Mikes I heard is ...till they get punched in the face...same difference tho.
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