Today’s quotation
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
This coming December 10th in Duesseldorf, Germany the undisputed heavyweight champion of the WBA, IBF and WBO —Vladimir Klitschko (Ukraine, 1976)–will defend his titles against French challenger Jean-Marc Mormeck . As expected, the pre-match hype is hot: “I want his belts,” Mormeck said. “If I want to get them, I’ll have to smash his face.”
Klitschko, coming from a country where chess is King, drew upon a chess analogy in his response:
“Everyone has a plan until they get hit. So you got a plan and then you’re getting hit. Then the whole plan is just screwed up… So you can’t really follow the plan…Boxing is a chess game. I’m definitely going to fight you, play chess with you in the ring and eventually make a checkmate.”
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Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Klitschko (born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO Super, IBO and Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion. Klitschko is the longest reigning Heavyweight Champion in history for the IBF, WBO & IBO heavyweight titles, both in measurements of defenses and time & the 7th longest reigning heavyweight champion of all time. As of 2011, Boxrec rates Klitschko as the number 2 pound-for-pound in the world. Ring Magazine currently rates Klitschko as the number six pound-for-pound boxer in the world.
As a matter of pure curiosity, Klitschko’s father was a major-general in the Soviet Airforce and was one of the commanders put in charge of cleaning up after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. His father subsequently developed cancer.
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS