The following is off the AP Newswire:

Klitschko, Brewster show respect before IBF title fight

By NESHA STARCEVIC, AP Sports Writer
July 2, 2007

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) -- Considering the usual hype before a heavyweight title fight, Wladimir Klitschko and Lamon Brewster talked about their rematch in measured tones, showing plenty of respect for each other.

Klitschko will defend his IBF title Saturday at Cologne Arena.

The topic of poisoning was brushed off by Klitschko, who raised suspicions of being poisoned by Brewster's camp after the Ukrainian lost to him on a technical knockout in their first fight in April 2004.

"I am not thinking of the past, there are no parallels between the two fights," Klitschko said at Monday's news conference.

Brewster didn't want to dwell on the subject.

"Between the two us, he knows and I know that I didn't poison him," Brewster said. "I was the better fighter that night."

Brewster was saved by the bell after being knocked down in the fourth round of that fight, then floored Klitschko twice in the fifth to stop the fight.

Klitschko (48-3 with 43 knockouts) won the IBF title by stopping Chris Byrd in April 2006. He's defeated Calvin Brock and Ray Austin in his last two defenses.

Brewster (33-3, 29 KOs) upset Klitschko in Las Vegas in 2004, capturing the WBO title. The American defended it three times, beating Kali Meehan, Andrew Golota and Luan Krasniqi, but lost in April 2006 on a unanimous decision to Sergei Liakhovich.

"I don't have many words to say today, I want to thank Wladimir for accepting this challenge. Not many fighters want to fight me," Brewster said.

Both boxers said they were in great shape.

"I've waited more than three years for this fight to happen," Klitschko said.

Emanuel Steward, Klitschko's trainer, said his boxer was in his "prime."

"We are not underestimating Brewster," Steward said. "He is an old-school fighter. He is a serious fighter, he punches with both hands. These are the two best punchers in the heavyweight division. We'll have to be careful until the end. But Wladimir is in his prime and no fighter can beat him."

Brewster's trainer, James "Buddy" McGirt, said Klitschko showed he was a "true champion" by choosing to fight Brewster.

"My prediction is that Brewster will regain the title," McGirt said. "These are the two best fighters in the world and we are going home with the championship."

WAR WLAD!!

I think Wlad will beat Brewster this time.Their 1st fight still has me puzzled.Wlad was killing Brewster & all of a sudden he just fell to bits.

Brewster is gonna GET KNOCKED OUT!

Ur rep bar is approaching gold mr bean..

uyyyy Brewster will ride the vagabond dog express of shitz bros pssssssss

You Say That Bro!!! JAJAJAJAJAJAJA









PD. Wait For See..... JOJOJOJOJOJ!!

"He knows and I know I didn't poison him" True "I was just the better fighter that night" False


Don King poisoned Wlad cause he wouldn't play ball and Brewster is gonna get fucking pounded horribly. Hopefully he leaves on a stretcher and can't speak tomorrow to give any stupid interviews

"I've poisoned your Gatorade"

"I've poisoned yours as well!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

Steward: I am sure Wladimir
will knock out Brewster!

July 4, 2007

Report/Photo: Klitschko.com


On Monday, following Wladimir’s last training we called Emmanuel Steward, Wladimir’s trainer. Since Emmanuel was about to go to sleep, we kept this interview brief and asked him few questions about the upcoming fight and his thoughts of Wladimir’s training camp

Emanuel, this was the first time that Wladimir held his training camp in Austria? Why did you choose Austria this time?

As you know our prior camps were held in Majorca but during summer it’s very hot there. In Austria the weather was much cooler. That’s primarily why we picked Austria.

How did the training camp go?

The camp went very well. We had a lot of good sparring partners. Since all of them were also getting ready for their upcoming fights they were very, very aggressive and highly competitive. We had over ten experienced heavyweights with us in the camp. We also had the undefeated Johnathon Banks (16-0, 12 KO). Many people expect him to become one of the top ten heavyweights. He was very aggressive with Wladimir. Another one was Andre (Purlette), who was also very strong and aggressive. Andre is 39-2, with 35 knockouts. All in all it was very good training, no one got hurt and it was very competitive. Among other fighters that trained with us were Kermit Cintron and Andy Lee.

Emmanuel, is Wladimir fully prepared for the fight?

Yes, he is completely prepared for the upcoming fight.

This fight is very important to Wladimir. Did you prepare differently this time than usually?

Not really. Wladimir fought a perfect fight last time. We expect Brewster to be very aggressive in the beginning and then he will have to slow down. But don’t think he’ll be an easy target for Wladimir. Brewster is a very strong opponent, and even when he’s tired or hurt he always finds that energy turn things upside down. So you can never relax with him. He’s the most difficult heavyweight to fight. We just made sure that Wladimir is in great shape for this fight.

So you’re expecting him to start the first round similar to the way he started against Golota?

Yes and Wladimir will be able to control him with his left hand. He will use it to slow him down and once he does we’ll destroy him.

Are you looking for a KO win or is it likely that the fight will go to the scorecards?

I still think that Brewster can’t take Wladimir’s punches. With that said we do have a lot of respect for Brewster, since he's the only heavyweight that can punch as well as Wladimir. I don’t think much of Samuel Peter’s punches; he cocks them or punches to the back of the head. Brewster does know how to punch properly and he’s very well schooled. He’s tough. I think him and Wladimir are the best punchers right now. And if you compare them to the other heavyweight, very few of them are big punchers. That’s what makes Wladimir so different from the rest, he can punch someone out with one big punch. Brewster also is very good with that. That’s why it’s unlikely it to go the distance.

Anything else you would like to add…

Wladimir is very focused and very determined. He will fight a very intelligent fight. I am sure he will knock out Brewster.



Source-www.fightnews.com

Wlad by KO in 3!

This is a hard one to pick.
I'll say Wlad but if he gets tagged..who knows.

(Almost) The King, Wladimir Klitschko




By Cliff Rold

Fans in most of the world probably haven’t seen it yet, but boxing may have fielded its best candidate so far for 2007 Fight of the Year last Sunday night. I’ll get back to that a few paragraphs from now. After all, boxing fans have much to anticipate in the next couple of days and the future should take precedent.

Heavyweight contender and IBF titlist Wladimir Klitschko (48-3, 43 KO, Ring Magazine #1) should have his anticipations deliberately spread over a couple of fights. I mean literally a couple of fights too because, with the right two wins, the long vacancy atop the heavyweight division is over.

It’s been just more than four years since the Ukrainian giant was this close to the summit of the sport. With the boxing world beginning to chatter about a future challenge of then-champion Lennox Lewis, Klitschko would be forcibly pushed from the precipice in two rounds by Corrie Sanders in March 2003. Two fights later, he would be shuttled to the canvas again, this time by the man he faces in mere days. It’s easy to wonder if he will carry those bad memories with him to the ring.

Indianapolis-based Lamon Brewster (33-3, 29 KO, #8) has to be hoping he will. Defeat may not be the right word to describe what Brewster did in the context of their first encounter so feel free to replace it. Outlast…outgut…out not-seemingly-have-a-panic-attack…call it what one will. The fifth round technical stoppage victory for Brewster on April 10, 2004 remains one of the more bizarre nights in recent boxing vintage.

Over their first three rounds, Klitschko looked as good as he had in his entire career. Brewster was kept at the end of his jab, absorbing ridiculous levels of punishment that included a third round trip to the ring floor. It was easy to assume Klitschko would soon have his hand raised.

Then he just dropped.

Somewhere around the middle of the fourth, Klitschko began to look spent, his punches losing snap until in the fifth he had no punches, or energy, at all. A series of right and left hooks from Brewster prompted a standing eight count in the final minute of the round. Klitschko tried to press on but fell after a tussle on the ropes at the bell and could hardly raise himself to walk to the corner. The referee waved it off and Brewster had the biggest victory of his career.

The excuses came from many directions. There was of course a laughable conspiracy theory involving Vaseline and leg rubs; the more palpable theory that he had punched himself out, though doing so in only three rounds was just weird…it remains to this day a mystery

That’s appropriate I suppose because ‘mystery’ remains, ten years into his career, the best way to describe Klitschko. When he’s on, he’s one of the best offensive forces one could ever hope to see at heavyweight. He has speed, power, and accuracy to go with wins over current and past top ten contenders like Chris Byrd, Jameel McCline, Calvin Brock and Samuel Peter. Thus it’s puzzling but necessary to recall that he failed to hear the final bell against Brewster, Sanders and Ross Purrity(?).

Yet here he stands, all 6’7 of him, ready to stake his claim as the king of the heavyweight division. Barring another night that only the Warren Commission could love, Klitschko should defeat Brewster in their rematch. Brewster hasn’t fought in over a year and reportedly suffered a detached retina in his last bout, a loss to Sergei Liakhovich in what was likely the best and most brutal heavyweight scrap since Michael Moorer-Bert Cooper. Klitschko has won six in a row since their first encounter and has been devastating in scoring three consecutive knockouts. With a victory, Klitschko provides himself the aesthetic of beating the last man to beat him.

That will provide him a great deal of capital with fans and add to the rhetorical fuel for his promot…err, broadcasters at HBO in proclaiming him the man to beat. He still though will have one obstacle remaining on his journey to stamping his name in history as the lineal successor to Lewis.

Put aside all the politics for a moment. Come October 7 of this year, Sam Peter (28-1, 22 KO, #2) will likely have the WBC belt and still have a loss to Klitschko. Had rules against punching behind the head been enforced, it wouldn’t have been close. I and most that follow the game would love to see these two go again; Peter has clearly improved.

There’s a chance Peter could lose to current WBC titlist Oleg Maskaev, but Maskaev has been a perennial knockout victim against any top foe not named Hasim Rahman so I don’t like his chances. Regardless, Klitschko-Peter II is a fight that can wait and various shenanigans, politics and the return of Wlad’s big brother (Vitali Klitschko) will make it wait anyways.

Therefore, it’s another October bout that matters most for those that want to see a single heavyweight champion. The scheduled October 13th unification bout between WBA titlist Ruslan Chagaev (23-0, 17 KO, #4) of Uzbekistan and WBO titlist Sultan Ibragimov (21-0-1, 17 KO) of Russia is that bout. By all logical rights, it will produce the guy Wlad must beat, or be beaten by, to end what by then will be a nearly four-year vacancy of the World heavyweight title.

It will be particularly the case should Chagaev emerge with two belts. Chagaev, in his last four bouts, has gotten by tough opposition like former titlist John Ruiz and Michael Sprott and he’s put the only losses on the records of Nicolay Valuev (46-1, 34 KO, #5) and Vladimir Virchis (23-1, 19 KO, #10). He’s got a hell of a case already that he is just as deserving of the number one spot in the division as Klitschko is and doesn’t have three stoppage losses on his dossier.

Ibragimov is a question mark in terms of quality but he is undefeated and can at least claim to be the man who beat the man etc. who last beat Wladimir Klitschko (his otherwise trivial WBO belt comes in a direct line from the first Klitschko-Brewster bout). Through sheer process of elimination, a victorious-against-Brewster Klitschko versus the Chagaev-Ibragimov winner is the Heavyweight champion of the world.

A heavyweight division that has lacked for so long in terms of clarity is suddenly boiling down. The sport is as close to a true heavyweight champion as it has been in years. It should come as no surprise that having this scenario riding on the shoulders of a guy who lost to Ross Purrity (and Sanders and Brewster) makes close still seem quite far away.

Wladimir in 4 then Brewster on the Floor

Oddsmakers have established IBF/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko as a substantial favorite over his former conqueror Lamon Brewster today in Cologne, Germany. Sportsbook.com lists Wlad at -450 while Brewster is +300. Bet365.com lists Klitscho at a whopping -600 with Brewster backers getting +400. HBO will televise live at 5PM ET/2PM PT with a replay at 10:30PM ET/PT.

If Wlad had a chin he'd be 20/1.

Wlad's chin isn't as horrible as everybody says it is... He survived against Peter who is the hardest puncher in boxing... He got KO'd by Corrie Sanders on a left hook that would knock out anybody save for maybe Peter and his other fights have been against Purrity when he gassed in the 10th and he quit on his stool (very early in his career) and Brewster when he mysteriously died the first time. Brewster earned my respect by giving Wlad the credit he deserved instead of saying he didn't perform up to his ability. Brewster can still carve out a decent career for himself if he decides he wants it after he talks it over with the wifey and kids.