Obama versus Clinton? McCain versus Huckabee? No! The real fight tonight was Klitschko versus Ibragimov!!

Wladimir Klitschko (left) IBF Champion before outlasting Sultan Ibragimov (right) WBO Champion at Madison Square Garden this evening

I personally never doubted who would win -- those long arms and his incredible endurance were enough for me to predict the outcome. One commentator simply said, "far too strong and much too long" to describe the 12-round "fight" that was scored 117-111 and 118-110. The AP scored it 119-109. Ibragimov barely landed a punch while Klitschko simply jabbed at him round after round.

Of interest to me is the little noted fact that Klitschko, a Ukrainian--and national icon, is also a Ph.D. who plays chess--probably (ha ha) better at both than I am! Ibragimov, a Russian, was favored by Vladmir Putin, of course, but ...

More to the point of tonight's fight is that Klitschko is 6' 7" tall and outweighed Ibragimov by 20 pounds--a lot to overcome in the art [sic] of heavyweight boxing. Tonight's fight was called the "Unifying Championship Fight," but the splintered heavyweight ranks are worse than than the early Republican Presidential Debates.