Klitschko dominates Jennings

Sometimes, as a spectator and boxing fan, you just get tired of the same guy always being on top and all the challengers doing the same thing: making huge remarks before the fight and then stalling around in the ring. Heavyweight fights in the 70s and 80s had more tension, were more charged, more exciting, more fascinating. There's probably almost nothing more exciting, more inspiring in the world than two men facing each other in the ring, fighting to defeat the other and show who's the stronger of the two. It's animalistic! But in recent years, the appeal of boxing has suffered, especially in the heavyweight division - there is simply a lack of boxers who inspire.

Klitschko attacks, Jennings defends
With this feeling you have to go home after the fight of Wladimir Klitschko against Bryant Jennings, even if Jennings has earned a certain respect, not only because he bravely endured the 12 rounds. No, Jennings' story also impresses. Unlike other boxers, he didn't box from childhood and was introduced to boxing and later professional boxing step by step over years of training. Rather, Jennings is a versatile athlete who sought his athletic fortune in American football, basketball and also the 200 meters. It wasn't until he was 24 that he decided to box. He has been a professional for 5 years now and had won all 19 professional fights until the Kapmf against Klitschko. To a certain extent, therefore, he can be forgiven for not using his jab to guide and attack his opponent^, and for following up with his punching hand from time to time to knock his opponent down, as Wladimir Klitschko does. Overall, however, it has to be said, there was clearly too little from Klitschko in this challenger as well.

Whoever challenges Klitschko must be aware that he has a top athlete and showcase boxer in front of his nose and that he must box really well here if he wants to have a chance to snatch the belt from him. Jennings was perhaps not miles away from that today, but still clear. There was a lack of clean attack and also a lack of recognizable strategy that should have brought about a victory. Rather, Jennings soon found himself in reverse and on the ropes, even if he also drove Klitschko backwards with powerful attacks every now and then. Klitschko was not able to send Jennings to the ground despite partly heavy hits, no, rather Jennings impressed with a physical robustness, which also showed in an unmarked face at the end of the fight, whereas Klitschko showed a clear cut under the left eye. If Jennings would show even more technical ability, he might have a chance against the unkrainian model athlete, but so it is not enough and was not enough. Klitschko, for his part, clear and as always determined towards the target he was aiming at: Jennings. Guiding hand against the opponent, followed by the punching hand and both hit the target, although not as often as usual from Klitschko, the good coverage of Jennings paid off. Drive the opponent in front of him, dominate the ring, that was the motto of Klitschko, as actually in every fight.

Clear point part
In the end, the three American judges Max DeLuca with 118-109, Steve Weisfeld with 116-111 and Robin Taylor with 116-111 decided clearly and unambiguously for the winner Wladimir Klitschko and the verdict of the judges is therefore fully in order. Jennings, who commented on the scoring after the fight as wrong - one doesn't know whether to take it seriously or not - can actually only learn from his first defeat, because the boxing talent from Philadelphia has the potential for more if he now invests even more in training. Klitschko, on the other hand, has to put up with such absurd reproaches shortly after the Kapmf that he "only" won on points, such accusations are simply embarrassing and expose the one who pretends to be a layman in the sport and a complete sensationalist.

Hopefully, the next opponents will really have more to show than delivering impressive words before the fight. More impressive would be a spirited fight and attack in the ring. Klitschko, who wants to unite all heavyweight belts on himself, now gives hope for more hopefully exciting fights, but the opponents must bring more than his last opponents, otherwise it will be again nothing with the defeat of Wladimir Klitschko and a new winner in the heavyweight.