If you already had the answer fixed in your head why even pretend you are asking the question? This is just an attention ***** thread. And BTW - Lewis TKO 6.:rofl
Ok. Nope. He lost to Rahman due to conditioning, lack of training in South Africa, and supreme overconfidence and arrogance. He lost to McCall because he had sloppy technique and thought he could bang anyone in the world out with his right hand. No. He lost to Lewis because he got repeatedly punched in the face to the point where the doctor stopped the fight. Wrong again. Lewis didn't have a rematch clause for the McCall fight. The fight happened a few years later with several fights inbetween. Don King picked McCall (when he clearly wasn't ready) out his 'stable' because he thought Lewis wouldn't **** himself at fighting a guy that beat him. He was wrong. BTW, McCall was crying on the way INTO the ring for the fight where he BEAT Lewis. He was always unstable back then. Lewis should have retired sooner after the Vitaly fight. He dragged it out too long for sure. Lewis had a rematch clause for the Rahman fight. He might have had onefor the Vitaly fight too, I don't know. Challengers dont' usually get rematch clauses. That's why Vitaly didn't have one against Lewis. I wouldn't imagine Vitaly would have been in a position to immediately rematch Byrd either if his shoulder was that badly injured.
WTF, Are you that stupid. Lewis said he would rematch if the money was right. The money was right and evryone wanted to see it. Why did Lewis wait until a few days before he was going to be stripped of the belt to retire. Wanted to retire, retire, why wait, because he wanted no seconed fight with Vitali. There is more to Vitali wanting Lewis before this fight happened. :good
Dunno. Maybe he was finding it hard to retire from something he'd done virtually all his life? Perhaps he was wanting a different (easier) fight to end his career on, and cash out with? Maybe he was ****ing with Vitaly, because he was pissed off with the bull**** way he carried on in the ring afterwards, and the whole "Peoples champion" wank? Who can say? Perhaps he couldn't understand why a challenger got a rematch practically straight away, after Lewis had already beaten him once? The Johnson v Vitaly "eliminator" was a farce from start to finish. The WBC were fighting every step of the way to stop Lewis fighting Johnson when the fight was first scheduled, at one point almost amking it a non title fight due to them thinking Johson was so ****. Then as soon as Vitaly loses, it's Vitaly and Johnson in an eliminator?
Lewis was in shape and just got caught by McCall. Lewis could have continued, but the referee stopped it. Lennox was out of shape and got bombed out by Rahman. Vitali quit against Byrd in a fight he was winning. He should have just continued, as the injury wasn't going to get any worse. Against Lewis, Vitali was doing well, but Lewis was beating him up in the sixth, so I can see why the fight was stopped, as "The Klit" was busted up.
Lennox's loss against Rahman was a real shock... ALWAYS take any of your opponents extremely seriously. Make no exception.
I don't agree with that at all. Vitali did lose the last 2 rounds but he won the first 4 on all judges scorecards. It could just as easily be said that Lewis threw every punch in his arsenal & Vitali was still there. Those cuts were from legit punches though, not headbutts, sharp dreds or finger nails for that matter & therefore the ref stoppage was fair enough.
Good Post. I can agree with your statement. And yes the fight stoppage vs Lewis was a TKO for Lewis as posted earlier.