Whose retirement "timing" is better; Lennox Lewis or Rocky Marciano?

Byrd gets plenty of credit. But the fact remains that Vitali outlanded him and that nobody would bet a plugged nickel on Byrd winning a rematch.

 

Coulda, woulda, shoulda ... didn't.

 

Yup that was Vitali.

" It's okay ,it will be alright".Fritz Sdunek
"No it hurts too much" Vitali.
As for integrity , Lewis never got busted for PED's, Vitali did,and that's why he never made the Olympics!

 

You don’t get credit for what you probably or might do.

 

Precisely. No points for, “Well I could have.”

 

I fail to see what that has to do with Vitali's official pro career nor with Lewis wimping out of a rematch.

 

So we agree that Lewis screwed the pooch on his failure to rematch Vitali

 

They did, quite openly & shamelessly. It cheapens them both in my book.

 

Marciano 49-0 punch like an armourpiercing bullet retired on top

Lewis ... muh mum says ah cain't

 

I don’t have an opinion on that as I haven’t looked deeply into it. I’m pointing out the logic you should be applying to Klitschko regarding Byrd. Lewis did actually beat Klitschko, though, so he, “did,” as it were. Klitschko did not with Byrd.

 

You are the one talking about courage and integrity.
"In 1996, when still an amateur, Vitali Klitschko tested positive for a banned substance and was removed from the Ukrainian boxing team"

 

The big men of that era weren't very good. Sonny Liston is the only bigger guy who really seems like a threat

 

Lewis somehow faced the next generation, while Marciano "missed" Patterson.
The unfolding of events shows that Lewis chose better "timing".

 

???? dafuq you on about? I'm the one talking about Lewis wimping out from a rematch. Even Ney agrees that Lewis failed on that score.

 

Marciano was pretty amazing. You'd never catch him blowing bubbles in a pool of his own drool like Lewis after Rahman