T.K.O. in 6

More proof Lennox had been planning on retirement before TKO6

This was June 6, 2003. Lewis found out Vittles would be the replacement for Johnson 4 days after this. Old, fat Lewis beat up Quitschko and than retired as he had planned to do all along.

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Friday 6 June 2003


Last Update 6 June 2003 12:00 am

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LONDON, 6 June 2003 — World heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis says Mike Tyson is scared of him and there is no chance of a rematch between the pair. “I won’t ever fight Tyson again,” Lewis told British newspapers yesterday from his training camp in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. “That’s over. He’s seriously scared of me and his time has passed,” added the Briton, who will fight for the first time in more than a year when he takes on Canadian Kirk Johnson, 30, in Los Angeles on June 21. “He (Tyson) must have had bad dreams about the beating I gave him in Memphis last June.”

Lewis, 37, is widely accepted as the heavyweight champion after his eight-round demolition of former title-holder Tyson last year, although boxing politics means there are several versions of the crown held by different fighters. The World Boxing Council may not sanction the fight with Johnson due to objections from German-based Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko.

Lewis said he had banished thoughts of quitting the ring and believed he had two or three more meaningful fights left in him. “I have been having thoughts about retirement,” he told British newspapers. “A lot of different things happened to me in my year out of the ring. Most definitely I’ve been thinking about retiring on a last big super-fight — it could be Vitali Klitschko or Roy Jones.”

 

That is impressive, but that doesn't matter in the Lewis fight because Lewis busted his eye up so bad that he stopped Vitali and got the TKO, so the scorecards don't really matter in that fight.

 

Of course the scorecards wouldn't count in case of a doctor stopping it. If they did, Vitali would have won.

 

so you're basically saying if vitali would have won he woudn't have lost? interesting :think:think

 

there was once a thread in which an old journeyman talked about sparring with lewis, wlad (who hit by the way the hardest), tua, etc. and he said that lewis thought about retirement already long before the klitschko-fight.

 

No I'm saying if they judged it based off scorecards (which is the most regular way that fights are determined when there isn't a KO or a stoppage by the referee) then Vitali would have won.

 

You would have also had to have made it a 6 round fight for this ridiculous scenario to play out. But the bottom line is Vittles DIDN'T win....that is all you need to learn to accept.

 

6 fvcking rounds left you fvcking cockeating ******

your "vitali" nearly lost an eye and a quart of blood after the first 6

keep holding on to that dream of your one eyed hero

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Well it ended in the other most likely way, a KO or ref stoppage. However, those didn't happen in the Vitali fight.

 

No moron.

Lewis was 38 years old.. 265 pounds.. trained at home town buffets for weeks and still tko6ed your God Idol.

Look at the state of his face.. he was just getting to him and getting his 2nd wind... he would have knocked out Vitali in the 7th round.

 

No, the ref stopped it on the doctors ADVICE. So you're wrong again.

 

So the doctor caused the stoppage. That is clearly different than a ref stopping it on his own.

 

Lewis was 37. Lewis was 256 lbs and weighed more than 253 since he was 34 years old. The Lewis out of shape theory is disproved.

If you don't care about the face and look at the actual fight you'd realize that Vitali was outlanding and dominating Lewis. Lewis was going down in the 7th/8th/9th typical Vitali style.

You should look in the mirror for the moron.

 

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