Lewis vs Klitschko (Highlights)

I don't agree. Lewis was missing a lot in the first few rounds, and left himself off-balance. It opened the door for Vitali to come through with his own offense.

I think that had the cut never happened, Vitali was on his way to a late stoppage of Lewis. Not on account of the damage he had done to Lennox, but Lewis was badly winded at times and just seemed to be out of shape.

In a way, this was the worst Lennox against the best Vitali. I still would have liked to have seen a rematch. I'd favor Lewis slightly.

 

They were both knackered to buggery. Look at the way Vitali draped himself all over Lennox towards the end of the sixth and refused to let go. Those are the signs of either a very tired man or a very hurt man.

Lennox was at least trying to fight out of it.

 

Definitely one of the last great heavyweight brawls.
At the time it wasn't seen as an especially good fight, but as the years have rolled on and mind-numbing boredom has set in thanks to the domination of the Klitschko's, this fight reminds people how good a heavyweight scrap can be at the top level.

 

Povetkin vs Huck was a reasonable scrap as well, if you want to (temporarily) consider that a title fight.

 

I've heard it was good, but I haven;t seen it yet.

 

Two things I noticed while watching the fight (for the 10-12 time now) was the left of Lewis would literally stop Vitali in his tracks, and I don't know how the announcers couldl say at the end of the fight that Lewis was dead tired when it seemed to me Vitali was drapped all over him after Lewis threw an overhand right, and Lewis was simply trying to create space between them so could continue his attack.

 

Lewis would definitely have stopped Vitali inside the next couple rounds....

 

I think it's quite possible the stoppage actually did Vitali a favour. I think Lennox was getting on top and feel that the likelihood is he would have stopped Vitali conclusively in the next couple of rounds. I think Lewis' great experience was becoming a factor. As it is, because the fight was stopped on a cut, there will always be the "what if" factor, which gives Vitlai a "moral" victory in some people's eyes.

I understand that the ringside doctor, when examining the cut, said that in order to look at him, Vitali had to lift his head way up high, therefore exposing his chin - not a good idea with Lewis throwing bombs at you. It seems like a wise and legitimate stoppage.

IF Vitali had been sparked in the second half of the fight, his stock wouldn't have been as high as it is now.

So what if Vitali was 4-2 up in rounds - it's like being ahead in a football match at half time - the score at half time does not guarantee a result at full time.

One thing that this fight conclusively proves to me is that both guys take a hell of a shot.

 

Precisely. Some really shitty commentary in that fight from the American side.

It's also interesting to note that it was the stiff jab, and the overhand right that really seemed to do the most damage to Vitali, not the (admittedly spectacular) uppercut in the sixth. The jab especially really rocked Vit to his bootstraps.

 

It looked like that was, ahem, on the cards. There was definitely a big momentum shift in the last two rounds, and Vittles never proved himself to be a man able to pull a KO out of the fire. He certainly wouldn't have done so against a fighter of Lewis's calibre, knackered as he was with his face opening up.

 

Despite the commentators apparently living in bizarro world, I don't understand how people can't see that Vitali was completely ****ed in the 6th round. Lewis was also tired but he was trying to create space to knock Vitali's block off because Vitali had nothing left.

 

Exactly. Vitali was already starting to push his punches by about the fourth round, and had hardly any snap by the sixth. What was his best moment in the last two rounds? Buggered if I know.

Lennox, in contrast, was really starting to load up and thud his shots home with brutal force, and doing so repeatedly. Even if Vitali were to have miraculously survived the next six rounds, there's no way that any of the judges would have favoured his ineffectual push shots over Lennox's bombs.

 

The background surge of Mass Effect music in the closing moments was a nice touch.