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Vitali Klitschko spendet 100 Tickets an die Feuerwehr von Los Angeles

Seit sechs Wochen bereitet sich WBC-Schwergewichts-Weltmeister Vitali Klitschko in Los Angeles auf seine Titelverteidigung am 26. September gegen Chris Arreola im Staples Centervor. Hautnah erlebt der Champion, der selbst ein Haus in den Bergen von Los Angeles besitzt, wie die Feuerwehr Kaliforniens gegen die Waldbrände ankämpft, die die Metropole bedrohen. Als Anerkennung für die harte Arbeit der Feuerwehr spendet der Weltmeister 100 Karten für seinen Kampf gegen den US-Amerikaner.


„Jeden Tag riskieren die Feuerwehrmänner ihr Leben, um die Flammen von der Stadt fern zu halten. Ich kann sie dabei von meinem Haus aus sehen. Für ihren selbstlosen Einsatz gibt es keine Worte“, sagt Vitali Klitschko.

Zu seinem bevorstehenden Kampf gegen den ungeschlagenen Arreola sagte Vitali Klitschko im Rahmen eines Presse-Trainings am Mittwoch in Los Angeles:

„Ich trainiere sehr hart und fühle mich sehr gut. Ich bin bereits auf einem sehr guten Niveau. Am 26. September werde ich in Top-Form sein und meinen Titel erfolgreich verteidigen.“

“Chris Arreola ist ein sehr gefährlicher Gegner. Doch ich werde allen zeigen, dass ich der Stärkste im Ring bin.“

„Arreola ist unbesiegt, hat einen starken Punch und kämpft mit sehr viel Herz. Er trainiert hart und wird mir alles abverlangen. Doch es gibt keinen Zweifel, dass ich den Ring als Sieger verlasse.“

Klitschko-Trainer Fritz Sdunek: „Vitali trainiert äußerst hart für diesen Kampf und wird von Tag zu Tag besser. Am Kampfabend wird er 100-prozentig fit sein.”

Der Kampf wird live und exklusiv von RTL in Deutschland übertragen. Die Live-Übertragung beginnt in der Nacht von Samstag auf Sonntag um 4.30 Uhr, die Wiederholung am Sonntagmorgen um 10.45 Uhr.

klitschko.de

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As a live broadcast analyst for HBO, Lewis will be ringside on Sept. 26 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, when Vitali Klitschko (37-2, 36 KOs) makes the second defense of his _title_ against 28-year-old Chris Areola (27-0, 24 KOs) of Riverside, Calif.

"In essence, it's a mismatch -- unless it was fought in a phone booth, then I would say that maybe Areola could win in that sense because he's a good brawler," Lewis said of the 6-foot-4 fighter, who weighed 255 pounds for his fourth-round knockout of Jameel McCline on April 11.

"But when it comes to the sweet science, Areola is lacking a little bit, and that's where Klitschko will take over," Lewis said of a man who weighed 249 pounds for his ninth-round KO of Juan Carlos Gomez (44-2, 35 KOs) -- his fifth straight -- on March 21. "Klitschko is a boxer-puncher-mover, and he has a lot of different assets that he can use. Areola doesn't have that. I see Klitschko winning that fight."...

http://boxing.fanhouse.com/2009/09/03/lennox-lewis-at-age-44-i-can-still-do-it/


Video Interview mit Vitali Klitschko:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-3cv74M6jM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boxingscene.com%2Fforums%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D302607&feature=p_layer___embed_ded

By Chris Williams: I’m starting to have second thoughts on the Vitali Klitschko vs. Chris Arreola bout on September 26th, after seeing recent photos of Klitschko. He’s really started to look old. He’s looks like he was dipped in a bottle of old and came out of it looking like he’s in his mid 40s.

Forget about 38, his current age, Klitschko looks at least seven years older than that. I need to rethink my pick of him beating Arreola. By looking at how decrepit Vitali has become in the past year, I now think that Arreola is going to beat him. I wonder what Klitschko is doing to get old that fast? Whatever it is, Vitali seriously needs to stop because he turns into an old man over night.

Arreola doesn’t look at that young either for a 28-year-old, looking closer to 34, but he looks like a baby next to Vitali. Seriously, Klitschko needs to get a hold of some Just For Men hair color and go at it. That’ll at least take care of the silver locks that Klitschko is starting to sport on the sides. But I don’t know what Vitali can do for his face. He just looks like a 40 something year old person.

Even if he dyes his hair, his face is still going to look his age. And it might not be worth the trouble. It’s like when you see an older woman at the store and you can just tell that they’ve dyed their hair, because it looks so unnatural because the rest of them look 45 or 50, and just looks old. It’s kind of like that with Klitschko. He could do what George Foreman did when he made a comeback in his 40s. .....

http://www.boxingnews24.com/2009/09/vitali-klitschko-looking-kind-of-old/

lol was is denn das für ne pfeife?!?


Dougie's FAT Friday Mailbag
Posted Sep. 3, 2009 at 11:24pm
By Doug Fischer
Buzz up!



BIG BRO IS THE MAN

Yeah, I agree with your take on Big Bro. I have always backed Vitali Klitschko (not as a fan). Can't say the same for Wladmir but never understood it when people would say Vitali looks or IS so “vulnerable.” He’s the best heavyweight since Lennox Lewis. Wish Vitali came around in the mid 90's. He could have competed and would have been in some interesting matches. Peace. -- Adam

I think you’re right, Adam. I can envision Vitali engaging in some excellent matches with the prime (or slightly past-prime) versions of Riddick Bowe, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Ray Mercer, and Tommy Morrison. I think he would have beat Tyson, Mercer (in a good fight), and Morrison. Bowe and to a lesser extent Commander Vander may have outhustled him in close.

Big Bro may look like he’s there to be hit the way he leaves his hands down and has his head straight up in the air, but he’s not an easy target because of his height and his ability to lean back without losing his footing. And even if a heayvweight is tall and rangy enough to nail him clean, it doesn’t matter. He’s got a good chin. He proved it by taking Lennox Lewis’s best right uppercut. Oh yeah, Lewis is another mid-90s heavyweight I would favor to beat Klitschko, but I think it still would have been a tough fight for the younger version of Big L.

http://www.ringtv.com/blog/1058/dougies_fat_friday_mailbag/

Lennox Lewis Believes Klitschko Brothers Should Square Off in Ring

Although he is six years into his retirement, the former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis indicated to FanHouse recently that he felt as if he still could defeat the current crop of heavyweights.

Although he has no plans for a comeback, that didn't stop Lewis from expressing his disappointment in today's division overall, and, in the champion brothers, Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko, in particular. During a Q&A, Lewis said that it was "bad for the sport" that the Klitschkos have vowed not to fight one another.

Check out the full interview below to find out which opponent Lewis wishes he fought during his career and why it was so important to him to fight Mike Tyson.

FanHouse: Can you talk about your motivation for your rematch with Hasim Rahman, and what you called his "Lottery punch"?

Lennox Lewis: The Rock fight, man, I took really seriously. He was dealing with some disrepect. I realized that I was not at my best in South Africa. I know that it was a lucky punch. I'm telling people that a lucky punch is a punch that is thrown one time and you land it one time. A punch that you're trying to land is a punch is thrown many times, and then, all of a sudden, you adjust it, and then it lands -- that means that you meant to throw that punch with the type of danger it brings and the results that it brings. You want to knock this person out. Rahman threw a lucky punch that landed.....

I'll admit, he was successful in the first two rounds, but after that, it was all me. I was really taking him into the deep end. This was a war. We're gladiators. After that fight, I realized that at my worst, I can beat Klitschko, so at my best, I know that I can beat him. So there was no real hunger for him. So that was the right time to walk away from the game. Besides, he's not a guy who said that he was going to eat my children or anything, so I could walk away, no problem.


http://boxing.fanhouse.com/2009/09/04/lennox-lewis-believes-klitschko-brothers-should-square-off-in-ri/


Und eines muss man Lewis lassen, er hat es geschafft rechtzeitig mit dem Boxen aufzuhören, hat seinem Leben einen Sinn auch ohne Boxen gegeben und hat eine realistische Einschätzung des Kampfes gegen Vitali. Wesentlich realistischer als Vitali selbst. An einem Sieg von Lewis gibt es überhaupt keinen Zweifel. Der Abbruch kam spät, aber er kam und war absolut berechtigt. Und ein TKO Sieg ist ein TKO Sieg, noch dazu spielt es keine Rolle, dass Vitali nach Punkten vorne lag, es waren erst 6 Runden geboxt (ich hatte den Kampf unentschieden gescort), also gerade mal die Kampfhälfte.

Irgendwie scheint Lewis immer mehr Probleme damit zu haben, daß die Klitschkos ihn mittlerweile vergessen machen....

Der soll froh sein, daß er Vitali nicht die Chance zum Rückkampf gegeben hat und dann richtig in Rente geschickt worden wäre!!!!!

Lennox war ein großer Sportler, ansonsten find ich ihn überwiegend unsympathisch.....

Habe mir heute zum Wochenende zum 100. Mal denFight gegen Vitali angeguckt....der soll mal schön die Füsse stillhalten....