It was a single overhand right from Lewis. I don't know which version you watched but the SKY replays clearly showed the cut opening after Lewis landed the right hand.
In boxing, the worst cuts are usually caused by head buts or loose tape on the gloves, not from clean punches. What we have here is a punch, then a clear meeting of heads where the top of Lewis forehead meets Vitali's eye in a downward fashion. The anti-Klitschko fans might cry foul, but watch the tape and you'll see there was definitely some contact. Fightnews.com said it was loose tape on Lewis gloves that caused the cut. It could have been a punch, lose tape, or a butt. No one can say with 100% sure. What can be said for sure it was a great fight. Vitali proved himself that night and was up 4-2 on all three cards prior to the ring doctor stopping the fight on cuts. Boxing needed a re-match. Lewis opted not to press his luck. According to Vitali, this was the first time he was cut in his kick boxing or pro boxing career.
After watching it again in slo-mo, the cuts, or their severity, were likely the result of all of the above: punches, tape and butts. It struck me as strange that Vitali's face was gashed open when he'd never been cut before nor since.
This has been dissected enough times. Previous threads have all came to the same conclusion: Lennox won fairly.
This is a crucial point. Take everybody else who Vitally Klitschko fought and Lewis could probably have beaten any two of them in the same night.
Laughable bias. It was a right hand which decimated your hero's face. Get over it. Klitschko ****ed up his one chance he had with an (Out of shape past prime) ATG. No joy.
I remember an uppercut doing the most damage. Im sure his mouthpiece was at a certain angle where it just slashed right through his lip when Lewis landed. Either way Lewis was getting closer and closer and landing cleaner and cleaner. Theres a reason for that, and it was because of the pressure Lewis was putting on him. I actually thought it was a perfect gameplan on Lewis' part and it made him look somewhat bad and elevated Vitali to this mythical status, but I believe Vitali is an overated puncher so Lewis could afford to take those chances, and as it became more of a fight and less of a boxing match Lewis broke him down very quickly. Even Lennox Lewis would have a tough time outboxing Vitali because hes very agile for a big man and fights very tall and awkward, so the only way to beat him is to make him fight hard.
Ya, but as the pic of Vitali clearly shows, there was more than one cut. Regardless of what caused the cut above the eye, it's pretty much certain that the other cuts were caused by punches.
Not only that the main cut the one on his lip was caused by a punch and that was what stopped the fight. The reason Vitalis mouth was hanging open was because he was choking on blood. When your breathing hard and have that much blood in your mouth it starts to choke you when you start swallowing it. Vitali was in big trouble either way.