Stanglwirt is a sprawling bio-hotel located in the Austrian Alps and which at first glance looks like the setting for a slow-burning, creepy horror movie. With its mountainous background and somewhat kitsch interior – heavy wood panelling,
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But on this spring visit there is no horror to be had. Instead, amid the restaurants and bars, the spas, saunas and swimming pools, resides a story of redemption. Or, as Wladimir Klitschko puts it, fulfilling an obsession.
The heavyweight is here to prepare for his bout with Anthony Joshua at Wembley Stadium on 29 April. Stanglwirt has been his pre-fight base since 2003 and a place he describes as a “home away from home”.
http://www.authenticyankeeshop.com/authentic-46-andy-pettitte-jersey.html It is easy to see the appeal – for all its “Here’s Johnny!” qualities, the complex, now more than 250 years old, is a beautiful place to spend some time. Pristine, picturesque, warm, friendly and with plenty to do and consume. For Klitschko it is somewhere to get his mind and body right, which now more than ever is important for a boxing great who, as he admits, is about to take on a career-defining challenge.
Klitschko has not fought since his shock defeat to Tyson Fury in Düsseldorf 17 months ago. It was an outcome that not only stripped the Ukrainian of his WBA, IBF and WBO titles but also of his cloak of near-invincibility.
Ben Revere Womens Jersey Dr Steelhammer, a fighter who had secured 53 of his 64 victories across a 27-year career by knockout, was outgunned by a man who dressed as Batman for one of their pre-fight press conferences. Fury was a joke, yet after a unanimous points decision on 28 November 2015 he was the one laughing.
Much has happened to Fury since that night and one of the consequences has been Klitschko missing out on a rematch that would have provided him with a chance to prove he is no busted flush after a fourth defeat since turning professional in 1996. “Unfinished business,” as he puts it. Now, finally, comes the chance for him to go again against a British fighter.
Joshua, the IBF champion, poses a different threat to Fury – a year younger at 27, stronger and more deadly. Then there is the setting: a stadium Klitschko has never fought at,
http://www.officialnationalshop.com/authentic-14-chris-heisey-jersey.html in front of a 90,000 sellout crowd. He goes there on the back of his longest period of inactivity since first lacing up a pair of gloves, and having just turned 41. Little wonder this most assured of men is full of questions, full of doubts, as he spoke at Stanglwirt.
