Unbeaten Calvin Brock faces IBF Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko tomorrow night at Madison Square Garden. Fuse picked put Brock as a comer a couple of years ago, and he apparently has a good eye. Brock is 29-0 with 22KOs. The 6'7", 244 lb., 30 year old Klitschko is 46-3 with 41 KOs. Brock, 31, is 6'2" and 204 lbs. Brock also has a smaller reach by 3", but this is a minimal difference. Most of their other measurements are almost exactly the same.
I don't know enough about Brock to predict the winner in this fight. Spotting someone 5" and 40 pounds is a lot in boxing, but both have excellent KO records, Klitschko's the more impressive. Klitschko also is a great deal more exprienced as a pro, even though Brock started boxing in 1987, 2 years before Klitschko, who was the 1996 Olympic Superheavyweight champion. Klitschko's amateur record was 134 - 6, 65 КОs, while Brock's was 174-38, 68 КОs. As I mentioned in the thread "One for Fuse" , these will be the best educated heavyweights to ever face off against each other; Klitschko, known as the Ukrainian fight doctor, has a PhD in sports science from the University of Kiev. Brock has a degree in finance from UNC Charlotte and is known as the Boxing Banker.
The fight will be televised live by HBO Sports World Championship Boxing (10 PM/ET, 7 PM/PT) and RTL (live in Germany) from the “Mecca of Boxing.” Undefeated WBC light heavyweight champion, Laila Ali (22-0, 19 KO’s), the youngest daughter of former legendary World Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, will be featured on the card as she makes her Madison Square Garden debut. This looks like a good card. Unfortunately, this Saturday is also the best Trivia contest of the year*, and my team is the defending champion.
*By best, I mean most academic, with very little pop culture. (Prize money is good at this one, too.) Last year, the movie category consisted of ten questions about Alfred Hitchcock movies. That is so much better than other contests we have gone to; one had the category "Dead Drummers". +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 11-10-06, 12:28 PM juanruiz I've seen Klitschko fight, and he can be deadly. As for trivia, wish I could go with you; I haven't been to a good contest in a long time.
11-10-06, 01:32 PM DorianGreyed I agree about Klitschko. I just haven't seen Brock to make any comparison. Judging by what I know of Klitschko and Brock's record, the winner needs to have a good night. Klitschko has had a few off nights, but then, he has had close to twice as many fights. When you've had 40 or so fights, a couple are certain to be off nights. Another factor is Brock's apparent one-punch KO power; of course, any heavy can KO any other heavy in the right set of circumstances.
New York, NY (Sports Network) - Wladimir Klitcshko used one incredible power punch to send Calvin Brock to the canvas in the seventh round to retain his IBF heavyweight title.
Klitschko constantly used the left jab to his advantage and then landed a huge right to the face to floor Brock, who lost for the first time in his professional career.
Despite being cut bad over his left eye from an accidental head butt in the sixth round, Klitschko (47-3, 42 KOs) wore down his opponent in the seventh. He hurt Brock with an overhand right halfway through the round and then used his left jab to set up the big punch, another right that contorted Brock's face and sending the challenger to the canvas face first.
Brock (29-1) got up before the count of 10, but couldn't convince referee Wayne Kelly to continue as the bout was stopped with 50 seconds left in the round.
On the undercard, Laila Ali, daughter of the former three-time world heavyweight champion, won her 23rd straight professional bout with a fourth- round TKO stoppage of Shelley Burton.
The fight, for the WBC women's super middleweight title, was stopped at 1:58 of the fourth after Ali connected with a whistling right hook on the tail end of a multi-punch combination.
The shot turned Burton sideways along the ropes, prompting referee Arthur Mercante's intervention.
It was a special night for Ali, who fought in front of her father, who came into the arena on a golf cart, weary from Parkinson's disease. Klitschko landed a left-right combination that sent Brock to the canvas. Wayne Kelly, the referee, said he ended the fight because Brock’s legs were wobbly and because he did not contest the stoppage. - Sports Illustrated -------- Klitschko landed a left-right combination that sent Brock to the canvas. Wayne Kelly, the referee, said he ended the fight because Brock’s legs were wobbly and because he did not contest the stoppage.
Klitschko was leading on all three judges’ scorecards when the fight, scheduled for 12 rounds, ended with 50 seconds remaining in the seventh. - New York Times -------- “I am interested in unifying the division,” he said. “The heavyweight division needs a real champion. I don’t consider myself the real champion now. My goal is to get the unification and my goal is that my next fight is a unification fight.”
“But Wladimir was better than I thought he was. The only area he left open was the body and I thought I might be able to get him there, but then I got tagged.”
Klitschko’s brother, Vitali, now retired, once held the WBC crown and was considered the better of the two fighters. But Wladimir showed Saturday why he generally is looked upon as the best of the four heavyweight champions. - MSNBC -------- I wish I could have seen the fight. But I had a good time at the Trivia Contest. We scored 98 out of 100, and won by (I think) 20 points. I posdted some of the better questions in Trivia this morning.
11-17-06, 04:47 PM coldfuse Thanks for posting this one in here; work of late has taken up my AP time.
Brock was pretty whipped before the knockout. Hell of a guy, represents his sport with honor, and I would have liked to seen his as champion. He's probably a few ounces short on intensity to have taken the title.
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