Was Lennox Lewis in his PRIME when he got humiliated & retired by Vitali Klitschko?

wat? I have never ever seen anyone (credible) claim he was not prime in those matches. Some were close, other he lost. Big deal, it happens. He avenged all his losses anyway.

Pathetic.

 

Nonsense, no one says that.

The fact is he reached the end of his peak around the time he fought Tua.

He was 35 at that stage, and starting to look a little slower.
He managed to land a bomb on Rahman in the second fight to win and he dug deep and called on old reserves against Vitali.

He was old and tired against Tyson,it was just that Tyson had even less left.

You cant argue with facts. He weighed 256 1/2 against Vitali, he weighed 242 when he was fighting Holyfield. He only weighed 229 when he beat Bruno in one of his most impressive earlier career victories.

He had been inactive later in his career. Vitali was his 3rd fight in 19 months.

And he was almost 38.

How on earth could he have been in his prime against Vitali???

 

Come on, man. GTFO with them facts. :-(

 

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37 year old, faded Vitali



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37 y/o Lewis

 

Lewis was not prime when he fought Klitschko, but he was as good as he ever was. He was carrying 6 extra pounds b/c he needed the weight to move the big man Vitali around in the trenches. It worked.

Vitali was not prime when he fought Arreola. He was soft around the midsection since his return from his injuries and early retirement. That said, he was still as good as he ever was.

Age, weight.....this is all bull****. Lewis was coming off career defining wins, and was readying himself for a run at Foreman's record being 44 years old and being/becoming champion. Many experts thought he would certainly achieve this.

Vitali, now 41, and still highly capable of continuing on, has to pick his fights however if he is to challenge Big George's record.:good

 

age is not bull****, it is a combination of biological changes that are cold hard facts for every man alive.

 

Yeah, except for Lennox Lewis in the Klitschko fight. He did not get old overnight. He was not in the best shape of his life when he signed to fight Krik Johnson, then suddenly he became a fat washed up old man when Vitali was announced by Michael Buffer.

That's what Im talking about. Not that 37 yo block masons with no health insurance are gonna slow down. If that mason got TRT, he'd be packing hod with the kids.:nono

 

but the first match was tko6, wasnt it?

I thought you were referring to the possible rematch when Lewis would be 38 or even 39, even shotter.

 

"Even shotter" So herol, you consider him SHOT then?:huh Like I said......95% of fans and experts alike, including Lewis and Manny thought that the Johnson fight would be followed up by RJJ, Wlad, Vitali, Byrd, and Ruiz.

Those fights were in the works for Lewis after Johnson and would be stepping stones on his path to breaking Foreman's record.

But, he became shot when Johnson was replaced by Vitali. :-(

 

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No. His peak was 1997-2000.

He was probably still near his prime in 2001, 2002 and 2003. But his preparation was awful against Klitschko.

 

If you ask Roy Jones he's still in his prime. Boxers never know

 

Tko 6

 

Pity all these fans and experts are mostly you then ay?

 

He beat the living **** out of Vitali. Certainly Lewis wans't too far off his prime, otherwise he wouldn't have won the fight.

If Lewis was as shot and 'fat' as some claim then he would have gotten his **** pushed in by Vit.