Wladimir Klitschko vs. Bryant Jennings

[bojangles1987]

I like Jennings, I really do, but he isn't good enough for Wlad. At least I don't think he is.

[Elroy1]

All the top fighters seem to have been fighting each other for the time.

I'm hoping that continues and this East/West split doesn't impede it.

Because if things go the way they have been, the top 10 would have ordered themselves nicely within a couple of years and we will know how good each is compared to each other.

Jennings is one of the major players who has never been dealt his losses yet.

If Jennings isn't the best, someone has to knock him off. If it isn't Wlad, it's Fury, Wilder or one of the others, so nobody should REALLY be that temperamental about who he ended up with this time.

If they remain champs/unbeaten long enough, they'll end up mandatories! If not, they didn't deserve to be there anyway!

[IronDanHamza]

You can't complain about this fight.

It's a good stay busy fight against a top contender.

Not Lepai, not Mormeck, not Wach.

A top guy.

[thebigkabosh]

Oh yeah, how so???

I mean, please enlighten us how he is worse than them?

And don't try and lie.

What aspect of Jennings is inferior?

I have a stunning insight for you..

Let's suppose Bryant Jennings fought in the Louis era or the Ali era and not out current one.

And let's suppose he was a Louis opponent or an Ali opponent.

We don't have to even imagine Bryant beating Ali or Louis.. Let's suppose THEY won (a large stretch of the imagination for me that one).

What do you think you'd be saying about Bryant Jennings today??

You would be singing the praises of Jennings as being such a mountainous opponent with the highest athleticism and out of this world skills that no modern boxer could ever hold a candle to.

And he would be a PROOF of the superiority of the Ali and Louis eras which featured superior boxers. And of the greatness of Ali and Louis for having beaten such a magnificent opponent as Jennings.

Fact!

I watched some of his fights including the Perez fight. In that one he was clearly being outboxed the first half of the fight but only came towards the end when the cuban fatigued. he only won because of a late point deduction against his opponent.
Jennings is just not a particularly good fighter. He has a somewhat decent rangy jab but he paws too much with it. Doesn't throw combinations, not an active body puncher, no real power to speak of. I'll give him credit in the fact that he comes into fights very conditioned, which in this era is good enough to get some wins.


There really isn't much of a need for a hypothetical tripe about what Jennings would do against Ali or Louis because he most likely wouldn't get to them. If he did based on the fights of his that I have seen, they would wreck him.

[VatoMulatto]

I just don't see how Jennings can beat him? He's a solid boxer but style-wise it's mission impossible. He has no weapons to trouble Wlad.

I mean, He can't stay on the outside and box Wlad. He's not a very good offensive minded fighter and doesn't have KO power. Easy win for Wlad where Jennings will be in survivor mode during most of the fight just looking to go the distance.

[thebigkabosh]

No, Jennings is a very good fighter. You're being much too negative about him.

He's Ring #5 at heavyweight, and ranked in the top ten by virtually everybody.

So you believe that that Jennings is a better fighter than Liston,Ali,Holmes,Louis,Tyson and Marciano because he's a little taller,longer or heavier?
I'm just being honest about his skills and abilities relative to the era he fights in.
Sure he is a top 10 contender but in a very weak era of HWs.

[Elroy1]

So you believe that that Jennings is a better fighter than Liston,Ali,Holmes,Louis,Tyson and Marciano because he's a little taller,longer or heavier?
I'm just being honest about his skills and abilities relative to the era he fights in.
Sure he is a top 10 contender but in a very weak era of HWs.

What a delusion.... You already know the answer to that.

You smash one of the strongest eras, and promote eras many orders of magnitude weaker!

[Elroy1]

I watched some of his fights including the Perez fight. In that one he was clearly being outboxed the first half of the fight but only came towards the end when the cuban fatigued. he only won because of a late point deduction against his opponent.
Jennings is just not a particularly good fighter. He has a somewhat decent rangy jab but he paws too much with it. Doesn't throw combinations, not an active body puncher, no real power to speak of. I'll give him credit in the fact that he comes into fights very conditioned, which in this era is good enough to get some wins.


There really isn't much of a need for a hypothetical tripe about what Jennings would do against Ali or Louis because he most likely wouldn't get to them. If he did based on the fights of his that I have seen, they would wreck him.

You should make a Jennings Ali thread for that I agree.

I think he's thrash the living **** out of him!

Jennings has good skills, watch the Liakovich fight. He is tough.

Your assessing Jennings qualities against THIS era. When assessing them against Ali's era, he blows it entirely out of the water like a nuke to an unprotected village.

You say he was struggling with Perez. I say SO WHAT! Perez is another fighter that would wallop your old favourties.

The guys you are talking about here are the TOP boxers in the year 2014/15!!!

And your seriously comparing them to boxers from 50-100 years ago?

Crazy!!!

[thebigkabosh]

What a delusion.... You already know the answer to that.

You smash one of the strongest eras, and promote eras many orders of magnitude weaker!

Speaking of delusions, this is coming from the guy who juxtaposed highlight reels of Joe Frazier and Alex Leapai and actually came away thinking Leapai looked better. Also a guy who on multiple occasions claims that Leapai would easily knock Ali out. It's no secret that this era is very weak.

I'll pose the question to you...Do you believe Jennings is better than Mike Tyson, Larry Holmes,Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis,Sonny Liston and Rocky Marciano because he has some favourable tape measurements against them?

[bojangles1987]

I just don't see how Jennings can beat him? He's a solid boxer but style-wise it's mission impossible. He has no weapons to trouble Wlad.

I mean, He can't stay on the outside and box Wlad. He's not a very good offensive minded fighter and doesn't have KO power. Easy win for Wlad where Jennings will be in survivor mode during most of the fight just looking to go the distance.

He does have a long reach, so he'd probably be best off trying to use it to catch Wlad from outside. I don't think he can pull that off though.