T.K.O. in 6

[Farmboxer]

Lewis had a very badly broken nose from one of Vitali's punches, according to a recent fight the fight should have been stopped and given to Vitali. If that is the rule, then that is the rule. Lewis retired rather than fight Vitali again. Lewis was behind on the cards and the crowd was cheering Vitali. The only thing that saved Lewis that night was Lewis' ringside doctor, his promoter, and referee.

[Coq]

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[MAJR]

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Do you ever actually post something that's on topic or do you just spam the same posts relentlessly in every thread you visit?

[PowerBack]

Originally Posted by tezel8764

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Holy

[qwert]

Berto wasn't stopped!

And your definition of a stoppage is completely idiotic!

Well done for trying though

[Ahurath]

Ok then he wasn't stopped. Imagine him fighting with that Injury for what 6 more rounds?
Imagine all the jabs hitting him in his face, the right hands and so on.

All you know about Vitali today wouldn't probably excist. The only thing we would know is that he fought the world champ and got his eye permanently damaged. There is no way he would of finished that fight with that eye.

And like always cut was caused by a punch not a headbut so it's a legit stoppage.


I don't really now why people are so upset about this loss. It's not like Vitali won't be rememberd. He will be in the same Hall as Lennox Lewis.

[Vidic]

Locard you twisted battyman give it up

[Vidic]

Originally Posted by locard

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This is how being ¨stopped¨ by your opponent actually looks like:

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THAT FIGHT WENT 12 ROUNDS

What a leech

[damian38]

PP was trying to show LL's personality in perspective to Vit and Wlad, and the same people as always turn it into a TKO6 thread, well done

[madballster]

Originally Posted by Sugar Nick

Friday, Jul 14, 2000 03:00 PM EDT
Lennox Lewis, heavyweight bore of the world
Having trouble falling asleep? Try watching one of lackluster champion Lennox Lewis' fights. He'll knock you out without laying a glove on you.
By Allen Barra

“It’s not my fault,” heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis complained at Thursday night’s weigh-in for his Saturday night title defense, “that I’m the outstanding heavyweight of my era, the way Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis were before me.” Well, uh, no, but it is Lewis’ fault that he’s dull, unimaginative, passive-aggressive and that he fights more like Bart the Bear than a Raging Bull. Lewis is 250 pounds, but as he demonstrated in his two fights with Evander Holyfield, his primary offensive weapons are a pawing left jab and a bear hug. As Holyfield phrased it after their first bout, “Every time I got in close he hugged me tighter than my wife.”

If Lewis’ fight with Francois Botha was broadcast nationally against a golf match featuring Tiger Woods, it would lose 2-to-1. Think about that. How would you have answered someone 20 years ago — no, 10 years ago — who told you golf would outdraw a heavyweight championship fight? The really sad fact is that this says less about the rise of golf than it does about the decline of boxing.

In truth, Lennox Lewis isn’t so much a cause of this decline as much as a symbol. Lewis has defended his title seven times, but a couple of those were against guys who weren’t household names in their own households. Lewis is quick to point out that he “isn’t responsible for the quality of my opposition,” which, again, is true. It’s not his fault that the best heavyweight he’s been in the ring with, Holyfield, was 36 when they fought for the first time. It is his fault, though, that he fought him twice without displaying passion or conviction, getting an absurdly unfair draw the first time and a lackluster win by decision the next. How boring were those fights? After the second, Bert Sugar of Bert Sugar’s Fight Game magazine told everyone at the press conference that “vandals broke into the arena box office and returned 500 tickets.” “I believe I am the best,” says Lewis, “I believe I am head and shoulders over everybody in world heavyweight boxing. I know that in a room full of men I would be the last man standing.” He probably would be. People who spend too much time around Lewis tend to nod off.

Lennox Lewis wears the same title as Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis, but it bears the same relation to theirs as the Holy Roman Emperor did to Caesar. Activist groups that seek the abolition of boxing are wasting their time. Boxing is erasing itself from public memory faster than last year’s MTV Awards.

Nice find. That's exactly how I recall public opinion of Lennox Lewis when he was active during the late 90s. He was widely disrespected and recognized as a boring champion with little charisma.

History is viewing him more forgiving, which usually happens after dominating champs retire.

[humbug]

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They both had short notice for the fight yes, but any boxing fan would know, Lewis was waaaaaaay past his best, overweight and simply wasn't motivated......and he still won!!!! A win is a ****ing win, simple as that. It will go down in history, as a W.

I want to jump through my computer screen and slap sense into you, but I can't and is impossible as modern day technology won't allow me to. It will go down in history that I never did slap sense in to you, because it never happened, just as Vitali didn't beat Lewis. A win is a win, are we on the same wave length here?

Seriously mate, when the **** are you and people like you going get off this Klitschko delusion you all call a reality. Vitali's best win was Corrie Sanders. I'll say it again, Corrie ****ing Sanders. Lewis would have mauled him within 5 in his prime.

[raichu]

tko6 will always be a fact.

deal with it.

[brnxhands]

Klitchko vs lewis was one of the best heavyweight fights ever. clowns cant just appreciate it. Getting stopped on cuts happens. Lewis was coming on strong but Vitali was not falling back. Had it continued who knows what would happen.

[The13thRound]

Honestly, prime lewis destroys both brothers, EASILY.

[Ultimate Boxing]

It was a nasty cut so it wasn't out of bounds to stop the fight but Lewis got lucky to score such a cut so early in the fight. Without that cut Lewis was going down hard. Byrd was even more luckier.