Is Vitali going to leave now?

Hopefully not before Haye. I would love for him to get to Povetkin before his bro too. Besides them there is no-one else for him to fight

 

I wish Vitali would forget about politics and focus on boxing this year.

 

I wish would go and live in some woodland somewhere and never come back.

 

Vitali has to be fair, achieved everything he can with the current crop.

the only thing he can hope for is that if he keeps bashing up contenders eventually one day one of them can become a great long after he has retired.

he hasnt had a defining victory because there are no fighters good enough to deliver him one

 

You mean apart from Lennox Lewis?

Vitali was lucky, he actually had a shot at an ATG heavyweight and got his chance at a defining victory. He just came up short, but gave a decent account of himself.

 

shaunster writing something not trolling???:admin what has happened? the fist time you wrote always good stuff, but then you started just to troll and annoyed the hell out of me. and now you write good stuff again.

 

Yeah, think I'm going to have to cut out the trolling now. Got a bit over the top, and I'm even starting to annoy myself with it

 

Regardless, the murky nature of the finish, the fact it was on short notice and the fact it was his ONLY shot means he doesnt have much luck.

Imagine it would be like Lewis never getting a world class opponent after Holyfield 1, he'd have every right to feel hard done by, right

 

Yeah, but consider all the fighters who don't get one of those fights at all. At least we've seen him in the ring with Lewis, and that can only work in his favour.

It may not have ended as most would have like, but he got his chance in the ring against a very highly regarded fighter and showed he could more than hang with him. Regardless of the outcome, people still cite what they saw in those 6 rounds as evidence of his 'greatness'.

Then you look at Wlad for example, he has dominated in recent years, barely losing a round - but when people try to talk about his ATG ranking it's based on purely hypothetical head to head matches and can (perhaps quite rightly) be shot down with his 3 embarrassing losses. He's never had that great victory that makes those losses redundant.

Yes, he might not have been as lucky as getting a fully scheduled shot against a 100% prime ATG, but having that TKO loss to Lewis in those circumstances on his record does far more for Vitali's resume than an infinite number of wins over average Joe challengers would. It proves that he was the real deal, whereas for a lot of fighters it's just speculation and a lot of question marks.

 

Sorry I misread your first post I thought you were taking the lewis fight as evidence of him NOT being a great, my bad

 

no worries

 

stfu

 

It doesn't have to be like this man . . .

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