Lewis v Klitschko Let`s Be Honest

Ali was considered too old at 34, Holmes retired ages 37, Tyson well... and Lewis was able to go so long because there wasn't really any good contenders left and he kept himself relatively in good shape.

Vitali if he was any good should have sparked out Lewis. Fact that he didn't just cemented his mediocrity in boxing history especially considering he had the misfortune of entering the weakest era in heavyweight boxing and defeated not a single name to speak about. How good he could is will never know. I presume when people look back in years to come, he just wouldn't be rated that that much. Too bad.

 

Why should lewis have given him a rematch? He beat him. There are nearly 40 other guys lewis beat and didnt give a rematch to.
He was talking about retiring before the vitali fight. It had been more than a year since his previous fight.
Why should he just keep going until he loses? If lewis won a rematch should he then give him another rematch?
Watch the last two rounds of the fight. You can't really think vitali looked like he was going to stop lewis. He looked like he was going to pass out!

 

keep sipping that **** juice man. Vitali gets all busted up by an out of shape of the hill fighter, but he won the war. he got ****in TKo'd. you guys need help.

 

you just stirred some serious **** up

 

Klischko haters can post day and night about what all Lewis would of done. Steward just cut their legs off. sorry! but thats the way it goes in the real world some times.
All the post made by haters for over 8 years have went for nothing.
Game over!:hi::yep

 

Jesus. More of this sh*t.

"Vitali retired Lewis" is such a bias b*ll**** ignorant, Klit hugging statement it's untrue!

Lewis is better than Vitali h2h, prime for prime, out of prime, resume wise, ATG status and legacy. Lewis would have also won a rematch clearly if he had the motivation to do so. And that's the point, he was rich no longer had the motivation so retired!

Lewis retired himself. I'll give you that he probably didn't want to fight Vitali, but then he didn't want to fight anyone that was tough as Lewis didn't have the motivation to train anymore! Hence retirement!! A Vitali rematch also wouldn't add one bit to his lagacy. It would have been just "another fight". Nothing speacial about it.

Lewis didn't have the motivation for the game anymore and thought "why bother fighting Vitali, he doesn't excite me, it will be a hard, but winnable fight, I'll have to train hard for it, Vitali doesn't really add anything to my resume, I'm rich don't need the money and my family want me to retire".

No doubt though that Lewis prime for prime is on a different planet to Vitali. Even out of prime and out of shape he was better and won by legit tko!

Lewis retired head held high on his own terms!

Saying Vitali retired Lewis is like saying Dawson retired Calzaghe. You're basically saying any fighter that retires on a win is "retired" by the only half challenge still remaining. No matter how inferior that challenge is when compared to other acheivements in their career.

 

Vitali ran Lewis out of boxing. Even Manny Steward said so.

 

Vitali had about as much influence in retiring Lewis as PAC did to hatton.

Its irrefutable.

 

Yet I bet you're one of the people who said the 36 year old Hoyfield that Lewis fought was past it...atsch

Lewis was older than Tyson when he fought him. Yet I bet you discount that victory because of Tysons age.

Vitali couldnt beat a near 38 year old Lewis,who came in at a career heaviest weight. Vitali was 30,in the peak of his career and couldnt get it done. He had the best chance ever to beat Lewis and he couldnt take it. Deal with it.

....and one more for good measureatsch

 

Someone said Vitali UD ? I love how Vitali supporters forget his face was being destroyed. Don't hate Lewis for that - hate the sport :hi:.

 

Outside of the fact that Hatton was about 30,and was knocked brutally out by Pacquio.

Whereas Lewis was 38,and stopped Klitschko in the 6th.

Outside of that,yeah,pretty much the exact same thing....wheres the smiley?...oh here it is.atsch

The record books will all say Lewis retired on a win.TKO in the 6th.
There will be no asterix.

 

I believe Vitali without the cuts would have beaten Lewis. But cuts happened and Vitali was to blame for getting hit, no doubt about it. Lewis won fairly. TBH, I think Vitali went all wrong trying to stop Lewis from the get go. Had he been calculated in his approach, he could have outboxed Lewis. For all his chinniness, Lewis was nasty to get in brawls against and that's what Vitali did.

 

There is always an asterix. And Lewis will ALWAYS be remembered with an asterix.... Read....
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 ****.

Here's a pick of a green 11-day old stand-in fighter, vitali, delivering a classy left uppercut!
Experience gap was massive yet he outpuche him an out boxed him for 6rds.

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