VIDEO: Vitali Klitschko knocked out by Pele Reid in a kickboxing match (1992)

[Smokin' Joe]

If he did deny it, I dont understand why.

A knockout that happened in a different sport 21 years ago. Has no bearing on his boxing career. Why deny it? Weird.

[sasquatch]

WBC Heavyweight Champion Klitschko allegedly asked, “Who’s Pele Reid?”, and when he was reminded that Pele was supposed to have KO’d him in a kickboxing match, Klitschko answered, “It was so long ago that I forgot all about him. I lost that fight because of a kick to the thigh, not because of any punch. Lennox is the biggest puncher in the world and he couldn’t knock me out.”

[FrochFan]

This video is telling.

If you knock a 6'7 guy on his back, he wont have the leverage to pick himself up. Now we know why Vitali was holding for dear life in round 6, his body cant recover from that position.

[ishy]

Originally Posted by boranbkk

First off that is not kickboxing as most poeple know it now, that is "controlled" light semi contact Karate, which was very often labled as kickboxing back then in the hangover days after the movie Kickboxer. Kickboxing became a buzz marketing word being used by just about any organisation that could get away with using it to gain more students or spectators and to look a bit fresh, exotic and like thay had something different to teach.

At that time you had more governing bodies offering kickboxing world titles than you did fighters fighting for them, so to all those boxing fans unfamiliar with the Kickboxing world, Vitali's world title means absolutly nothing! In the west this was before the Muay Thai explosion that has since come to dominate all forms of FC stand up fighting and hence in most organisations low kicks were not allowed and more often than not you had a mimimum kick rule of 7 per round only above the waist. No wonder FC karate died a pitiful death once MT exploded into K1. K-1 was just getting started and niether Pele or Vitali would have survived more than round and a half with a Hoost, Aerts or Hug of the era. The MT world was and always will be all about the Thai scene as back in the 90s the Kickboxing scene was all about Japan not the west.

And unlike boxing where the HWs have always been give such prominence and respect the HW Kickboxing or MT scenes are always the weakest in talent, quality and spectator excitement more often than not being horrible and ugly mismatches, the last division you look to for anything good. MT & KB are sports for little guys 72 kg and under, the big boyz aren't built for it very few have the natural atheltisism to even perform the most basic techniques fluidly.

And as for the above KO, well in MT & KB there is NO shame in getting KTFO from a kick. All that granite chin stuff goes out the window when Knees, Kicks and more importanly Elbows are involved. It's all about granite legs in the MT & KB world.

Glass legs do exsist!!!

Top post, thanks . I know naff all about combat sports other than boxing.

[FrochFan]

Originally Posted by cus tomato

Haye should try for the roundhouse if he fights vk and somehw try slip it by the ref.
If Hopkins sees this clip he will no doubt add it to his repetoir of fouls he uses each fight

Its sad that klit fans are clinging to "only a kick can stop him"

You need accept reality before the Haye fight...your just digging the hole deeper and deeper....

[jonnytightlips]

What a shot.

[greathamza]

So he was KOd by a kick and i guess that makes him glass jawed

[BoxingFan2010]

Originally Posted by Sir Will Wigan

No. No. No.

As Jack has said 100 times or more, he quite likes the Klitschkos. It just that
his posts demonise them because he doesn't care for their fans.

Bullshit! Fuck OFF with the BULLSHIT!

[Ne5ville14]

So now after the gay thrwad we are gonna have the shitty Vit has a glass jaw thread ?


Can't that go in TKO 6 ???

[cus tomato]

Originally Posted by FrochFan

Its sad that klit fans are clinging to "only a kick can stop him"

You need accept reality before the Haye fight...your just digging the hole deeper and deeper....

i am a brit and would be supporting haye if they fought.i wasnt trying to say nly a kick can stp him as i think haye would do him at this stage

[Felix Sturm]

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Vitali looked like he was waiting for breakfast in bed.

[irishny]

Old news boss.

Its already done countless pages on another thread.

[Todd498]

Originally Posted by FrochFan

Its sad that klit fans are clinging to "only a kick can stop him"

You need accept reality before the Haye fight...your just digging the hole deeper and deeper....

No I think it's Gaye fans that need to accept reality before he fights Vitali. Seems like they don't actually think Vitali has the power anymore to stop Haye.

LOL keep thinking that

[yaca you]

Damn. came out of nowhere.

[Koa]

Originally Posted by yaca you

Damn. came out of nowhere.

Nah, he had it set up from the last kick he had thrown. See how his legs ended up, set up to throw that back kick. Just have to know what to look for. He obviously didn't see it coming haha.