Well Shannon might still have some hand speed and he’s physically bigger than Wlad but I feel that Shannon’s recent fights show he doesn’t have the confidence that he used to and he may just be hanging on for paydays.
Wlad will start this fight like any other, dominate with the jab and then use the right hand but that left hook is the punch I think that will end it for Shannon…he has a good chin but he’s been floored before.
Shannon will come in heavy and tire out by the end of the 3rd round and by the 5th it’ll all be over and Wlad will have scored another spectacular knockout
…also notice Shannon hasn’t fought a ranked guy since the 90’s…his weaknesses are that of poor competition, old age, and stamina
Wlad will wear Briggs out and stop him around the 8th.
I don’t think there’s anyone around who thinks that Briggs has much chance of even going the distance with Wlad, it just seems to be a bit of a mismatch.
Briggs will do a Danny Williams, go in there extra heavy to try and get the power over Wlad, and just end up looking slow and pnderous.
If Briggs got his weight down he would have a better chance!
Sweetheart. He has no chance
Punchers chance , thats it. otherwise this one will be over before 6 rds.
Yelp , you got to give it to him credit for fighting Sam Peter a big puncher after getting caned in previous fight. Also he seems to be good people ! So thumbs up to Wlad even if i dont like all that holding ! He knocks Brigss out fairly early IMO
If this was any other skilled heavyweight he wouldnt have a chance. But as Wladimer have shown that just like Vernon Forrest and Jermain Taylor and fighters like that, he has it, but it doesn’t mean he uses it.
He starting to use it.
watch j.t. in his next fight… you will see what amazing strides this ridiculously gifted fighter makes with an established trainer like manny :o
hmmmm… I really don’t see that fight coming off. Something will happen (Briggs side) to stop it.
Yeah but what happens when he gets hit? If he gets hit?
I could easily see Briggs wife slapping him in the back of the head, saying “Muthafucka I ain’t ready to be no widow.”
:coolclick: Duke.
Good poll…beat me to it.
The deciding factor, IWO, is going to be Briggs’s lack of defense & the fact that his stamina is a joke.
Everytime that Briggs get’s clocked by anyone with heavy hands he shells up. Not sure if anyone saw the Lewis fight, but Briggs was open to the right hand pretty much throughout the five or six rounds that they fought.
The man lost to Jameel McCline for Christ’s sake… ::**
Briggs also couldn’t take it to the body that well either.
IWO…beating up on 10 or 11 bums in a row does not make you a champion. I think Wlad’s gonna pretty much destroy him…no matter how much courage his knockout streak has boosted his brain cells.
:coolclick: VD.
I agree. Klitschko by middle of the road TKO.
the real question: whos dreads would win in a fight? lennox or shannon!
Watch this and remember this is when Wladimir is totally out of gas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5uPaNxcq7w&search=klitschko
He is caught flush numerous times and doesn’t go down until he’s just exhausted.
Shannon Briggs can’t weather what Brewster did, there is NO WAY
I voted WK win. However, winning against Peter and Byrd was much a matter of utilizing a hight and reach and over-view advantage. He was, like Foreman, using his long arms to obscure Byrds vision and get his lethal rights in.
Now, what other tall, huge, man with fast hands and good chin has he been fighting? The great Sanders (not great? well apart from being also a golfer and policeman, not only did he beat WK, he stood, not in the best a shape, toe to toe with Vitaly K and traded until he was stopped in late rounds -still standing. VK is the best HW the last 10 years and just getting better. Now how is that for a gutsy title defence? Stupid really. What if Sanders had decided to defend against Byrd, Toney, Jones, Holyfield, Tyson, McBride, Golata (How would Golotas or Tyson’s minds handle a huge man with a southpaw stance an insane left hand who refuses to go down.) etc.?
Anyway back to the topic. VK may get scared of Briggs and panik. It could become an incredible war the first rounds if Briggs can catch up with WK. If he catches WK flush even ones early in the round we may have Sanders dejavue. This doesnt make Briggs as good as WK, WK will beat him over 10 matches probably 8/10 but there are those 2…