T.K.O. in 6

TKO6. There's your evidence. The actual result of the fight.

I can't imagine the second half of the fight either. That's because Vitaly couldn't make it that far.

Your theory is great if Lewis isn't allowed to fight back.

Look, Vitaly may have a plan to stop guys late. So what? It's no good if the other guy grinds you down faster.

That's what happened here. Steward told Lewis to turn it into a brawl after 2 rounds. 4 rounds later, the fight was over and Lewis had won.

Vitali put up a great effort. But he fell short.
That's just the way it is sometimes. Deal with it.

 

Because prior to the point when this thread was a sticky, the General Forum was cluttered with multiple threads devoted to this particular fight. Now, there's one thread devoted to discussion of what took place that evening, rather than an endless series of threads that one would otherwise have to sift through in order to find threads devoted to those other controversial fights you mentioned.

Pretty sound rationale, really. If you're unable to grasp it, then that's your problem...not the rest of this Forum. :deal

 

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Lennox Lewis was a great Champion.

And in his rematches he always did better. But you are absolut right, Champinshipfights are 12 rounds and after 3 Vitali´s face was a bloody mass. After 6 just the half of the fight was over. The half!!!

The stoppage win was a legal TKO win for Lewis so no rematch was needed.

The Champ decided to retire and this was a good decision.

Great Champ and person Mr. Lennox Lewis :thumbsup

 

Hello everyone . . . TKO 6 . . . that is all

 

had to just go on youtube to make sure Emanuel Steward had a hand in making TKO6 a fact.

RIP champ

 

No, a rematch would not have been for the belt. Byrd picked Wlad to face him instead of a rematch with Vitali. It wasn't Vitali's choice for Wlad to jump in and fight the match. The majority of the rounds weren't close. Byrd simply was not landing which is absolutely pathetic because Vitali was only 1 arming the fight. Any good HW could have beat the 1 armed Vitali that night and instead Vitali won 8/9 rounds. Lastly, you don't even know what round the injury actually occurred. It happened in the 4th round, in which Vitali was absolutely killing Byrd up to that point. Discrediting an injury is one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen, and the fact is that there is no proof at all that Byrd could win without the shoulder injury. Absolutely none. If there is, I'd like to hear it besides the bull**** excuses you've been giving. Basically, Vitali destroys Byrd any day of the week and it's absolutely insane to believe otherwise.

 

LOL that is seen with the most incredible bias I've ever seen. Steward didn't do **** to influence the fight. Vitali was the one who made it a brawl in the 2nd round when he almost sent to the Lewis to the canvas 2x. The fact is that Lewis was totally gassed by the end of the 6th and he would have went down on the sheer accumulation of punches he already sustained.

And YES, Vitali could have made it that far if it wasn't for the judgement of the ring doctor. Put in another doctor that lets the fight continue and it's a whole different game. If it wasn't for the judgment of one man, Vitali would have simply won the fight. His gameplan was working to a T, he made it a brawl at the beginning because he knew he would outbox Lewis anyway and then either finish him early (which would be nice but was pretty hard) or put him away easily at the end.

Vitali was in much better shape and if anyone believes that Lewis would have taken over the fight in the 2nd half simply disregards the shape Lewis was in and the way Vitali already outboxed him in the 1st half where Lewis used all of his gas in the tank.

 

RIR37 :hi:

 

Im not discrediting the injury, Im saying its a weak excuse you're trying to put forth as a reason Vittles didn't rematch. And if Vitty "destroys Byrd any day of the week" than why didn't he do it when they fought the first time? Oh thats right, he hurt his arm missing punches. Ok, so why didn't he rematch and do it? Oh thats right, its ok not to rematch if you lose a fight by injury and your little brother beats the guy for you. :good

 

This is excellent! So now you're admitting Lewis was in **** poor shape and STILL won the fight, but using conjecture to say he would have lost if it went on? :yep You nuthuggers are a funny bunch! :good

 

Tko 6!

 

If the ring doctor from the Vitali v Char fight had been there, we'd be calling this TKO3.
How's Charrs rematch coming along?

I see injuries don't count either?

So, why no Solis rematch?


Your argument saying grinding Lewis down was working great, apart from the fact Lewis wore Vitaly down quicker is illogical.

It's like me saying Lewis' plan to stop McCall was working out great until he got stopped. Hey, it was the ref that stopped it, he wasn't counted out.
So that doesn't count. And he'd won every single round until then.


(And before you launch into a tirade of "YES BUT MCCALL GAVE HIM A REMATCH" let me say this.
No, Don King did. He had an option of which fighter to match up with Lewis. He picked McCall because he thought Lewis wouldn't want to face him again.
And it was something like 4 years later.)

 

Wow really sounds rationale...im an ididot...lets hold on to the past and keep talking about a fight with numerous threads from 10 years ago. Thank god for this sticky otherwise idiots like u would still be talking about this fight in numerous threads..lol. thank god there is only one sticky:admin
thank u for putting me in my place. patsch