Wladimir Klitschko retains heavyweight titles with dominating performance

A boxer certainly needs to possess an excellent chin, but if that’s all he’s got, he’s not going to become a world champion. Poland’s Mariusz Wach found this out the hard way in Hamburg, Germany on Nov. 10 when 36-year-old world champion Wladimir Klitschko pounded him around the ring for 12 rounds while defending his IBF, WBO, IBO and WBA heavyweight titles on the way to an easy unanimous decision.

Wach, who was an inch taller at Klitschko at 6-foot-7½, came out on the wrong end of a lopsided decision by scores of 119-109, 120-107, and 120-107. He landed just one telling blow in the fight which came with 16 seconds to go in the fifth round. He landed a solid right hook to the head of the champion and staggered him, but the bell rang to end the round before he could do any follow-up damage with his ensuing flurry.
It was Klitschko’s 13th consecutive title defense, who admitted that the 32-year-old Wach caught him with a good shot in the fifth, but he made his opponent pay for it big time in the seventh and eighth rounds.