Vitali Klitschko to face Odlanier Solis in Germany, Boxing news
Ukraine’s national Vitali Klitschko is coming face to face against Odlanier Solis for the WBC Heavyweight Championship fight on Saturday 19th March, 2011 at the Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
The fight confirmation was officially made on 11th January. However, twelve different channels from all around the world are going to broadcast this fight on 19th March, 2011. RTL Television will host this fight for the boxing fans
in Germany. Bund Deutscher would be the fight official and Charles Giles is appointed as a supervisor for the fight.
The 30 years old, Odlanier Solis has scored 6 knocked out wins out of his last 7 competitive bouts. As far as his professional boxing record is concerned so he has fought 17 of his fights in total and interestingly he won all the 17 bouts, 12 wins by KO
with no loss of fight and draw. The 17th December 2010 fight victory over Ray Austin was the bout that brought the Odlanier Solis among the heavyweight opponents.
Odlanier Solis having nickname of ‘La Sombra’ is more qualified and dangerous if we camper him with any other fighter whom he fought since Lewis in 2003. There is probability that Odlanier Solis can cause an upset if he comes into his fight in shape.
No doubt Vitali Klitschko’s knockout rate is very high. But people are of the view that he is not a one punch fighter. Because most of the time he has been found to be stayed with his opposition until they finally collapsed or give up. His beaten fighters
were never seriously hurt after getting knocked out by him.
Odlanier Solis has solid chin. However that should be interesting to see what type of strategy he is going to adopt to deal with the size and reach advantage of Vitali.
The experienced Odlanier Solis is appearing to be the favourite contender of the championship. The reason because of his dominant punching ability and he is very confident to win this bout despite of being worried about a cut to his shoulder.
The 39 years old, Vitali Klitschko is the current heavyweight champion in the world by IBF, WBO, IBO and Ring Magazine. He has won his consecutive 9 wins and going to make his sixth defence of his WBC heavyweight title. His professional record is as follows.
He fought 43 fights in total out of which he has won 41 fights including 38 wins by KO and 2 losses of the game with no draw.
Vitali Klitschko having nickname of ‘Dr. Ironfist’ carries a big punch and has never seen to be clearly defeated. He faced the couple of defeats just because of being injured. He lost against Lennox Lewis due to a severe cut. People still believe that he
is unbeaten because other than those two fights he has been found impressive throughout his career.
Pre-fight Press conferences have been held officially for the two times at Cologne. In the first press conference, it was observed that although both the fighters do not have any history between each other but they have been exchanged trash talk up to their
fighting competition.
Odlanier Solis blamed Vitali Klitschko for speaking carelessly against him with the words that he is not so quick due to his lazy workout. In response to this Solis mentioned that he is in ideal shape and 100 percent sure to defeat Klitschko.
Solis spoke several times that he will send him to retirement and end his reign by way of beating him. On the other hand Vitali Klitschko shocked Solis by saying that he will get rid of Odlanier Solis by deleting his name from the world of boxing. Solis
manager Ahmet Oner blamed Vitali Klitschko for not taking the interest in the fight for a long time.
The second pre-fight press conference was scheduled on 14th March in Cologne. Interesting both the fighters found to be quiet. However, they promised with each other that he will win the knock-out at the end of the conference.
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