Lewis vs Klitschko 2... The Rematch prediction

stand by any statement you want, but tell me how many fights Lewis quite because of exhaustion?

Simple question.

 

Well now everyone on the board know you never saw this fight.

Vitali was doing anything but giving Lewis a beating at the end of the fight. In fact Lewis threw a hilacious upper cut that had Vitali drapping all over him. And Lewis won the last round on all 3 score cards, so how does any of this translate to Vitali giving Lewis a beat down. The answer is it doesn't.

Nothing wrong with being a Vitali fan but you shouldn't distort the facts just to prop your guy up, that looks pathetic.

So may want to actually watch the fight before making any further comments. Some of us have actually seen it.

 

...out of shape versus rahman got knocked into next week.....underestimated vitali and was taking a whoopin.....slumped onto stool and was the happiest man in the Staples Center when doc stopped fight....

 

a better more prepared lewis takes the first few rounds, but a relentless vitali starts to bring the fight back and have the scores about level by the 8th. i could imagine the middle rounds being a war, and one of the two being stopped. i couldn't pick which one though- i could genuinely imagine either of them going down after a huge shot late in the fight. its such a shame the rematch never happened :|

 

Well what can you do, Lennox Lewis did not have any sort of Balls what so ever. :verysad

 

Oh the irony of your post. Can you give me a play by play of the action in that round? I sure can. Stop reading Fighting Weight's version of what happened and actually watch the fight. That uppercut happens around the 2:00 mark and after a short 3 second clinch the ref breaks them apart and after that it's Vitali that throws punches and Lewis covers up. The irony of you post is pure comedic gold. The hanging on for dear life after that uppercut is a collective delusion affecting mostly Klitschko haters and big Lewis fans.

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You Klitschko fans are over the top about the official score so why don't you just look at the judges scorecards?

All three judges scored this round for Lewis. If memory services me right, I believe it's the only round he won on all the cards. (I did post the offical scorecards once one a boxing site but that was about 5 years ago). To deal with this exact same question, that's how long his issues been around.

So YOU watch the round and see with your own eyes who won it. I've got the fight at home and I've seen it several times, the last round was one of the best round for Lewis in the whole fight.

 

Lewis is a walking punching bag for the first minute of the round. He does absolutely nothing. From then on the round is closely contested with Lewis landing the two best punches of the round (2 uppercuts, one of them in the last second). It's a close round. When Klitschko haters talk about this round they talk about Klitschko holding on for dear life for the duration of the round and barely surviving. Listen to the commentator at the end of the round "It's all that Lewis can do to stand up..."

 

This I agree with, and in fact I'm surprised it's not closer. But as to whether or not he should have had a re-match I don't think it matters to him or the general boxing public, half as much as it does to Klitschko fans. I personally thought it was a great win against a very tough opponent.

Hard to say how the re-match would have played out. On the one had you have an older fighter who lost a step and seemed to have lost his timing, and seemed to be willing to trade punches during the fight, and has a great rematch history, against a very awkward, tall, determiined, hard hitting fighter who can obviously take a punch.

 

It was a competitive round that Lewis clearly won. But don't take my word for it, look at the scorecards.

The judges clearly thought the same, not on one or two of the scorecards but on all three of them. Live with it.

 

Vitali wins if he puts his pride aside and fights intelligently. He allowed Lennox to bust his face up by brawling with him, he should have worked on the outside, kept Lennox at bay as much as possible and done the minimum to win rounds. If he fights smart I think he beats Lennox.

 

Understatement of the millenium!


To answer the question, I would have favoured Vitali to win the rematch. But really.... so what? All it would have proved is that Vitali could go 1-1 with an old and faded Lewis.

If he really wanted to prove he was better than Lennox the only way he could have done it would have been to forget about fighting the old man, and instead set about matching and then beating his ACHIEVEMENTS.

Is Holyfield considered greater than, say, Mike Weaver? Of course he is. Because he ACHIEVED more. He could have fought Weaver in the late 80's, but would that have made any difference really? On the flip side, Weaver beat a 51 year old Larry Holmes in 2000. Does that mean Mike Weaver is greater than Holmes? Of course not.

 

There will always be "one more fight" that haters and neutrals say a fighter HAS to have.

A champion can retire when HE wants to.

 

He may have realised his boxing skills were not the same, at 38 years old.

In this sport where we have people crying about fighters being "not in his PRiMe!1" at 23, you would think more would be sympathetic.

But no, they want to have their cake and eat it.

 

And yet the much smaller 37 year old (the same age as Lewis) Holyfield was a great win for Lewis. The same Holyfield lost to Ruiz a year later. Talk about double standards...