by S. Graveson

Created on: December 17, 2009   Last Updated: December 18, 2009

Well, that was a stinker, a complete stinker. I don't often say this about a fight but that was a step too far in the display of negativity (I'm not a fan to start but that was a joke). For Kevin "Kingpin" Johnson it was his chance, and on the showing, he won't get another one, sadly negativity gets you zero fans no matter what you do with it. Fans are earned in this port by wars, battles and fighting, Kevin, you can forget having another pay day off the back of any of the current champions on that performance because no one will pay to see you try and survive.

Anyway rather than starting at the end and staying there, let's get on to the fight report of Vitali Klitschko's WBC title defence against Kevin Johnson the second American in a row for the elder Klitschko brother to deal with after he dealt a rather one-sided beat down to Chris Arroela. Johnson unbeaten in 23 (22 wins and a singe draw on his record with 9 KO's) was seen as the next best heavyweight and was relatively highly ranked by the WBC (#6) whilst Klitschko is seen, along with his brother, as one of the top 2 heavyweights. It was to be the big step up in class for Johnson who had shown he was skilful with a pea shooter jab, though Klitschko was known for having a ram rod right hand that had seen him stopping 37 of 38 opponents (with 2 losses). The fight between the two took place in the PostFinance Arena, Berne in Switzerland, the first time in over a decade that Vitali would fight outside of the USA or Germany.

The pre-fight "show" as they seem to always do in Germany and now it seems Switzerland too saw Jan Delay performing a version of his song "Disco", in what seemed to be a "Klitschko" remake, seeing the disco word replaced with the fighters name. He may not have been at home, but it was obvious who was selling this fight.

Johnson entered first to the ring, looking a little apprehensive on the TV camera, coming out to to the Michael Jackson track "Man In The Mirror" perhaps a sign of what he'd hope to do at the end of the fight and recognise himself. Klitschko came down to a much more hard hitting rocky piece after the giant bell above the ring rang several times, he also came out to a video of recent champions giving him encouragement. The reaction to the two again summed up who was the "home town" fighter as Klitschko got a heavy dose of cheers to Johnson's boos. We then had the national anthems and got ready to go, with some feeling the charade before the fight would last longer than the

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