 Klitshko
vs Thompson Betting
Odds
Klitshko vs Thompson
betting odds were
available courtesy
of
Sportsbook.com.
Wladimir Klitschko
by Decision paid
23-10 odds or $23
for every $10 bet.
A "decision" win by
Tony "The Tiger"
Thompson would pay
out $19 for every $1
bet. Klitschko
was the favorite to
win by KO at 5 to 8
odds.
Does this unlikely
latecomer have a
realistic chance of
dethroning IBF, IBO
and WBO king
Wladimir Klitschko?
asks Andrew Wake of
the
Boxing Herald.
Well, we all know
of Wladimir's
vulnerabilities.
Despite being
clearly the top man
in the land of the
giants, the 32 year
old Ukrainian can be
chopped down.
Back in early 2003,
a podgy part-time
golf player from
South Africa named
Corrie Sanders used
his southpaw stance
and fast hands to
devastating effect
when he floored
Klitschko four times
before referee
Genaro Rodriguez
stepped in to save
the Ukranian from
further punishment.
Little more than a
year later, and
after switching
trainers to Kronk
gym legend Manny
Steward, Wladimir
was stopped again
when challenging
Lamon Brewster for
the vacant WBO
heavyweight crown.
That night at the
Mandalay Bay in Las
Vegas, Wladimir
dominated the early
rounds and scored a
knockdown with a
heavy right hand in
the fourth, but ran
out of gas in the
fifth and was
floored before being
stopped at the end
of the round.
Klitschko will put
his heavyweight
titles on the line
against Tony "The
Tiger" Thompson, a
36-year-old,
6-foot-5 southpaw
from Washington,
D.C., on Saturday.
The idea that
Klitshko can lose
has a number of
gamblers believing
they can get a nice
windfall on
Thompson.
While a $1 bet would
pay out $19 for a
Thompson decision, a
$100 bet
would pay out
$1900.
Generally speaking
his unspectular but
highly effective way
of fighting has
given him
considerable
problems getting
meaningful fights.
He is about 245lbs
but rather an
average puncher,
according to his
Wikipedia page,
however, he has 31
wins and only one
loss.
But Klitschko should
not be a massive
favorite in this
fight, and he is not
by today's boxing
standards.
"Wladimir Klitschko
is just a six-round
fighter who can't
take it if the other
guy dishes it out,"
Roy Jones said in
the wake of
Klitschko's
fifth-round
technical knockout
by Brewster -- the
last time Klitschko
tasted defeat.
Brian Doogan of
ESPN.com asks
Can there ever be
redemption for a
prospective
heavyweight champion
who acknowledges
that he himself
might be one of his
most formidable
opponents? The
heavyweights have
become boxing's
circus act -- the
ringmasters
(promoters) calling
on them when it is
time to send in the
clowns -- so
6-foot-6½,
32-year-old
Klitschko, the man
who would be king,
ought to be
dominant, surely?
"I will not see
myself as champion
until I have all of
the belts,"
Klitschko said. "I
still have work to
do to be recognized
as the real
champion, and this
is driving me on,
this is my
motivation. To me,
it is important to
become the people's
champion, the real
champion. This is
why I fight."
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