Why did Vits not fight these top 10 fighters?

Now is now ponchy.

 

No champion ever faced ever top 10 opponent....
Not even the ones whose balls you likes to lick.

 

If some of those top fighters (especially those from recent years) actually fought each other in order to claim their shot at the champion then Vitali maybe could have taken on the best of them as they presented themselves.

As WBC champion he should be taking on 1 in 4 not all and every one of them.

 

:deal

 

Jab , it's called obsession.

 

Wlad was offered the fight after he beat Monte Barrett, on a Lennox undercard but chose to go the WBO route instead - ducking Lewis in the process.

Wlad then blew his chance, in 2003, by getting sparked by, Hasim Rahman victim, Corrie Sanders.

If you need the Bowe situation explaining to you - then you haven't been following the sport very long.

 

If you think Lewis is going to take a fight when he is getting half of the other fighter then your deluded.

I have read Maloney's book and Rock Newman never made offers that weren't heavily in favour of his own fighter - so in real terms pricing themselves out of a bout. Happens all the time in the sport.

If Bowe hadn't ditched the belt after the agreement, that the Holyfield vs Bowe 1 and Lewis vs Ruddock winners met next then we would have had the fight. Bowe and Newman chose to make easy money against faded Dokes and ferguson rather than give boxing the fight it wanted.

Later, if Bowe had gotten past Golota then the fight might have happened - no guarantees, as Rock Newman was an arse.

 

Oh Jab, you're mindlessness is amusing. Here are some lists for you: LL:
Maskaev Byrd Johnson, WK, McCline, Oquendo, Ruiz, Jefferson, Moorer, Witherspoon, Foreman, Izon, Bowe, Seldon, Zolkon, Hide, Holmes, Gonzalez, Hunter, Bentt, Garcia, Douglas, Williams, Damiani, Dokes, Norris. Those are all the Ring top 10's Lewis never faced when he was active (there might be more, I got bored and stopped when I got about as many as you had for VK) Heres one for you from Ali:
Ingemar Johansson Eddie Machen Mike DeJohn
Robert Cleroux Alex Miteff Dick Richardson Joe Erskine Logan, Levorante, Daniels, Rischer, Lincoln, Hilton, Persol, and I'm less than halfway through the Ring rankings for Ali's career and more than halfway to the numbers you had for VK.

Vile little hater, you can't fight all the top 10's, especially from Ring, who often has questionable top 10 rankings. Please note that of the top 10 fighters that LL "avoided" (fault lies as often with the would be challengers, as with the champs) VK beat 3 of them himself. Vitali has beat at least 10 genuine top 10 guys and at least 19 top 20 guys, only a handful of HW's in history can claim as many conquests, at least without having lost vastly more than VK's 2. Your irrational hatred is quite easy to expose as just that, completely irrational, to anyone willing to dig a little.

 

Yea we do :yep

 

Its not quite that straight forward.

Lewis & his manager/promoter Frank Maloney turned down a career high purse to face Bowe after being offered a similar split to that which Bowe & Newman accepted to face Holy.

Lewis/Maloney kept on stalling negotiations until enough time had elapsed that the WBC were poised to strip Bowe, so they threw the belt in the trash.

Newman had a long running beef with the WBC & Don King, mainly based on them refusing to give Bowe a decent ranking & having the likes of Adilson Rodrigues ranked higher.

Incidentally, in 1996 Lewis-Bowe was all agreed & ready to happen after the McCall fight but Lewis got knocked out & the fight never happened.