“This fight is 50-50,” Klitschko said. “Can the younger guy make it? Has the older guy still got it? Question marks are making this event really interesting. I’ve never had a pause for a year and a half. Is it bad? Is it good? Will I have rust? I want the answers myself.
“One thing I believe is I don’t feel my age. It’s not empty words. I am getting in the best shape of my life, physically and mentally.
Andrelton Simmons Jersey I don’t see I’m stuck and not improving, even in a sport I’ve been involved with for so long. That’s what interests and excites me.”
Klitschko certainly looked well as he spoke, flanked by his manager, Bernd Bönte, and his trainer, Johnathon Banks.
The body remains imposing and defined, his face chiselled and those hands continue to look like weapons of mass destruction. Asked to predict how the fight with Joshua will go, Klitschko raised his fists and nodded towards them in turn. “Funeral or hospital? Hospital or funeral? I don’t need many punches to knock a person out.”
That was a rare moment of trash-talking bravado from the veteran (alongside the moment he claimed Joshua gets confidence from his muscles and is better suited to bodybuilding).
Generally Klitschko was respectful of his opponent, borne partly out of the fact Joshua goes into their fight on the back of a perfect professional record – 18 wins from 18 fights,
http://www.officialangelsproshop.com/Andrew_Heaney_Jersey all achieved via knockout – and partly because of the respect Klitschko developed for the man from Watford, having invited him to be a sparring partner in November 2014, before taking on the Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev.
“He impressed me with his attitude,” Klitschko says. “He was in the background and learning. Sometimes you need to be quiet and just watch, and he was observing everything. He could also box, so I gave him credit and I was there in the arena when he won gold [at London 2012]. Every medallist in the super-heavyweight division at the Olympics has to be considered successful. He has a lot of potential and so far has done good.”
Unlike Fury, Joshua is likely to engage with Klitschko from the first bell, looking to plant his feet and unload bombs as often as possible. On one hand that provides the challenger with a standing target – not to mention a supposedly vulnerable chin – but on the other it means he will have to engage himself,
Sonny Jurgensen Youth Jersey something Klitschko did only in the 12th round of the Fury fight when his uncharacteristic hesitancy against a moving target had given him no choice but to go for broke. Ultimately it was too little, too late.
Klitschko insists he has learned from his mistakes and will be fully prepared for the challenge by the time he arrives in London on 26 April. Until then it is a case of working hard and staying focused, something that was there to see at Stanglwirt.
The scene was a converted tennis court in the bowels of the hotel. In the middle stood a ring while at one side were three punchbags hung in ascending order and at another a basketball net where,
http://www.footballredskinsprostore.com/Sean_Taylor_Jersey_Cheap at around 8am, Banks shot hoops with another member of backroom team as Klitschko went through a series of stretching exercises. Two television screens had been set up showing Joshua’s previous fights, everything taking place to the sound of Motown classics. It was a relaxed start.
