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Best Punch I Ever Landed

Ukrainian IBF and WBO world champion Wladimir Klitschko poses during the weigh in on the eve of the heavyweight title bout against British WBA champion David Haye in the northern German city of Hamburg on July 1, 2011. The fight on 2nd July has been dubbed the "unification bout" as the winner will take all three major heavy weight title belts. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)  | read this item

Best Punch I Ever Landed

We posed this question to several fighters including Wladimir Klitschko, Tito Trinidad, Mitch ‘Blood’ Green, Arturo Gatti, Antonio Tarver, Winky Wright, among others: You have thrown thousands maybe millions of punches in your life. Is there a particular one that stands out as the best, most memorable punch you ever landed?
Wladimir Klitschko: “In the [...]

Is Wladimir Klitschko The Next One? (2003)

Ukrainian IBF and WBO world champion Wladimir Klitschko (L) and British WBA champion David Haye fight during their heavyweight title boxing match in the northern German city of Hamburg on July 2, 2011. The fight has been dubbed the "unification bout" as the winner takes all three major heavy weight title belts. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)  | read this item

Is Wladimir Klitschko The Next One? (2003)

By Scoop Malinowski
(This article was originally published in Boxing Digest in April 2003.)
Sullivan…Johnson…Dempsey…Louis…Marciano…Ali…Holmes…Tyson…Lewis. This is the linear line of boxing’s nine dominant heavyweight champions. The question now is who will be the next and tenth man to join this exclusive brotherhood? There are indications that suggest it could very well be Wladimir Klitschko.
“He’s the one,” [...]

Talkin' Boxing with Wladimir Klitschko

Ukrainian IBF and WBO world champion Wladimir Klitschko poses during the weigh in on the eve of the heavyweight title bout against British WBA champion David Haye in the northern German city of Hamburg on July 1, 2011. The fight on 2nd July has been dubbed the "unification bout" as the winner will take all three major heavy weight title belts. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)  | read this item

Talkin’ Boxing with Wladimir Klitschko

World IBF/WBO/WBA/RING Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko takes timeout in Kiev, Ukraine to share some final thoughts on his most recent match, his very first fight, the hardest part about boxing, and more…
BoxingInsider: Your comments from the world title unification victory against David Haye?
Wladimir Klitschko: ”I was disappointed that I didn’t knock him out. Very. [...]

Biofile with Wladimir Klitschko

Ukrainian IBF and WBO world champion Wladimir Klitschko (L) and British WBA champion David Haye fight during their heavyweight title boxing match in the northern German city of Hamburg on July 2, 2011. The fight has been dubbed the "unification bout" as the winner takes all three major heavy weight title belts. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)  | read this item

Biofile with Wladimir Klitschko

Status: IBF/WBO/WBA Heavyweight champion.
Ht: 6-5 Wt: 241
DOB: March 25, 1976 In: Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan (is of Ukrainian descent)
Childhood Heroes: “I had very many heroes. Bruce Lee, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Muhammad Ali, my brother (Vitali). All the best boxers, so many people.”
Nickname: Dr. Steelhammer.
Hobbies/Interests: “Kite surfing is my passion. Computer, surfing the Internet. I like to wakeboard, snowboard … it’s [...]

What It's Like To Box Wladimir Klitschko  | read this item

What It’s Like To Box Wladimir Klitschko

Some former opponents of Wladimir Klitschko describe what it’s actually like to box against the current IBF/WBO/Ring Heavyweight champion…
“He’s an all around athlete. A great athlete, a better athlete than what I had anticipated when I got in there with him,” said Ray Austin, who was defeated in two rounds by ‘Dr. Steelhammer’ in March [...]

Bernard Hopkins: Portrait of the Champion  | read this item

Bernard Hopkins: Portrait of the Champion

I collected these memories and anecdotes from boxing insiders about Bernard Hopkins in the mid 2000s. Combined together they create a special portrait of Bernard Hopkins, composed of not colors or paints from an artist, but words and actions of his peers…
Hasim Rahman: “Obviously I feel like
he’s a man, he did it his way. And [...]

Roger Federer: Portrait of the Champion  | read this item

Roger Federer: Portrait of the Champion

IN 2008 I did a cover story for a magazine about Roger Federer comprised of various memories and anecdotes about Roger intertwined around some quotes from Roger himself…
Henri Leconte: “I like to watch Federer, of course. Because he can do whatever he wants.”
Akiko Morigami: “I think he’s like the God of tennis.”
Wladimir Klitschko: “Roger Federer, [...]

Watching Adamek-Grant with Monte Barrett  | read this item

Watching Adamek-Grant with Monte Barrett

What a pleaure to watch the important heavyweight clash between Tomasz Adamek and Michael Grant at ringside with none other than popular American Monte Barrett.
Here is the ringside commentary…
Round one: Grant comes out and lands the first right hand he throws, right on the chin of Adamek. “That’s a good start,” says Barrett’s attorney Mike [...]

Is America Ignoring The Klitschkos?  | read this item

Is America Ignoring The Klitschkos?

 
Boxing is bestowed with one of the greatest miracles in the history of the sport – the Twin Towers of the Heavyweight Throne, Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko reigning together as the kings of the sport.
Never in the history of boxing could this scenario have ever been imagined by anyone. Two brothers rising from Ukraine to [...]

The IBF/WBO/Ring Heavyweight champion of the world also won Olympic gold in 1996.  | read this item

Facing Klitschko: What It’s Like To Be In The Ring With The Champ

In this day and age there aren’t any heavyweight contenders with the marquee name recognition like “Foreman”, “Frazier” and “Norton” for Wladimir Klitschko to defeat and acquire the deserved accolades. So boxing has to suffice with the best of today, like Ibragimov, Byrd, Brewster, and Austin, etc. to measure how good Klitschko really is.
“He’s an [...]

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