Had the ref not stopped the fight on the cut eye Klitschko was going DOWN in the next round. He was grabbing on to Lennox for most of the round because he was totally spent!
Enjoy the retirement Lewis! U sound like an old twisted sour graped fighter that got chased out of HW before his time. Oh wait u did.......:rofl:rofl A quote from the book was submitted: "He [Lennox] told me that Vitali hurt him in that fight pretty bad and that he didn't want to have to face him again. I told him that if he wanted to continue fighting at all, that he would have to give Vitali a rematch. He chose to retire." I think that steward knows more about it than u my liitle ****. Class dismissed! This content is protected
Lewis was real out of shape....huffing and puffing falling onto his stule... can he last the next round himself. Until they started sticking a whole roll of gauze into the cut...I was still expecting Vitilie to win and by KO. It comes to a point where the most tired guy gets hit, and then that hurts even more. I saw a good fight...others see only hate. Yet as I say, Lewis was as hated as either of the K-brothers. And Who calls any and will fly half way around the world still to give advice to how to beat either Klitchko? Lewis...I have never seen such hate of a Champion for a man he 'beat'. In losing Vitilie won, he retired the Champ, who didn't have the balls to give him a rematch. Like I said...I saw a good fight... The judges had vitilie up by two....in I do not have a must ... I had it as 2-2-2.....then...If you go by a must....then I have Vitialie up by two. But everyone has their own rose colored glasses on. Hate or Fandom, colors your view...even mine. I don't hate fighters. I guess hate colors more and for longer. I didn't hate Paul Pender for beating up my Man Sugar Ray Robinsion...he got out boxed....he was old. As a Child I did 'hate' Basilio for beating up Robinsion...but after the second fight....I'd grew up....some times your man wins, some times he loses and Basilio was a hell of a fighter...did real good for a short man vs a tall man. I once did a blasphemy here...and said as a Welterweight the Tall 5-11 Robinson beat up a lot of 5'-6"-8" fighters fighting only one man his own height as welter, a man of 5-10. Hell in one fight the fans had a great little 5'6" fighter winning the fight...the judges not. Odd how all those who hate the Tall Klitchko's and back then, hated the Tall Lewis...don't hate the Tall Robinson. Could it be there are a lot of short haters out there?????
Noone knows what would happen after round 6, but noone needs to know. The fight was legitimately stopped. Lewis won.
I am talking about rd 7 in a rematch. Steward knew. Lewis knew. All the fans that watched the first fight knew. Vitali knew. He chose the easy way out, and bitched out after giving his word. Vitali retired Lewis. It's irrefutable. He won the match, vitali won the war.
How did Vitali win the "war"? His biggest fight to this day was his LOSS against Lewis. He has never before or since been in a fight of that magnitude. That is and always will be his signature fight. :smoke
Yes, after seeing them stick more gauze in an eye that I'd seen in 50 years of watching...the fight needed to be stopped. I saw a good fight....others saw them selves in a mirror. I thought the second Rahman fight as a real redemption for Lewis. The first was such a shock. I did not love nor hate Lewis...he was a fighter that was there. I never understood why he was as hated as the Klitchko's now. Hell I never understood why DHL was hated, win, lose, close, disputed or not...he fought the best men around. He did a pretty good job... I thought that pretty dammed good my self. Of course I did see Strum winning.... Didn't hate him for that though.
Lewis didn`t retire after Tyson gave Klitschko the chance was badly out of shape and Klitschko still couldn`t win. End of story.
And since we're basing this off of an Emanuel Steward quote (with no context that I could see in that short little excerpt): “No, I definitely don’t feel that. It was big hype but it didn’t turn out to be the kind of career defining fight I was hoping it would be. I mean at this stage it’s sad to say, but his fight five years ago when he was down three times against Sam Peter still is to me his most defining fight so far. I was very disappointed because this was the one that we wanted because of the unbelievable hype that had been built up with this fight as being the next biggest hyped heavyweight fight between Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson. Even though in between there was a fight that has turned out now to be the last good heavyweight fight, but it wasn’t built up to be that hype wise and that was Vitali Klitschko in Lennox. In fact Vitali Klitschko became famous and that’s his signature fight. I tease him about that and say the fight that made you, that made you this big star, is a fight that you lost with Lennox. You still haven’t had a fight of that magnitude which really was outstanding and memorable to the fans since you lost to Lennox, and he looked at me and said you’re right. But this was a big disappointment between what the public was expecting and what I was expecting even.” http://is.gd/TKVP69