he's fighting Leapai in front of 12 and a half thousand fans, I think ES will need to buy more cameras if they want to air the card correctly :deal
I actually thought this thread was meant to be humorous. But people are seriously discussing this topic?? I've never been a huge Lennox fan, but the idea that Wlad would last even 3 rounds with Lewis is laughable. The usual punch and grab tactics that Wlad uses would last about 10 seconds with Lewis, who isn't a smaller man who can be leaned on and enveloped in a nice big hug. Lewis would NUKE Wlad. It would be ugly. REALLY ugly. And really fast. People seem to lump Wlad and Vitali together, as if they are identical twins, and box the same way. There is no comparison between the two. The same punches that have left Wlad drunk on the floor would have mostly just pissed Vitali off. Can you imagine that huge uppercut that Lewis landed on Vitali, which he took well, landing on Wlad?? Lights out, Sweet Prince!! I'd make Lewis a -900 favourite against Wlad every day of the week. And even THAT might be generous. Prime Lewis against Prime Vitali would be a great fight, which Lewis would probably win.....but Vitali would make a fight out of it. Prime Lewis against prime Wlad would be a re-run of Lewis-Golota.
Lennox crushed Wlad in every aspect of Boxing as well as Vitali. Neither klitschko EVER beat an elite boxer
Knee jerk reaction is to say Lewis but Wlad's resume is catching up to him. It's always difficult to judge a fighter while he is still fighting and history shows that the public is usually harsh on the active fighter and glorifies the retired fighter. When Louis fought people always said Dempsey would of knocked him out, When Ali came along people said Louis would of smashed him and so forth. Lewis has the better names on his resume and his losses were to slightly better fighters than Wlads. Wlad has about 20 more wins than Lewis, fights southpaws and has dominated his opponents for 10 years. I still lean towards Lewis but I think Wlad's domination on Prime opponents will have him judged favorably in years to come. If Wlad was as bad as ppl say he is on here Emmanuel Steward would not have jumped at the chance to train him and since he fixed his style he has been virtually unbeatable.
Wlad identified the problem HIMSELF. He said (and I paraphrase) "Vitali was a born fighter........I wasn't". Too true. Everyone praised Wlad for his "restraint" in not clocking that half-witted Chisora when he spat in Wlad's face before the Vitali/Chisora fight. A REAL fighter......a BORN fighter would not have been ABLE to not punch Chisora out. Imagine a prime Tyson, Foreman, Holyfield, Holmes, etc in the exact same situation. They'd have been INCAPABLE of quickly thinking "Oooooh. If I hit Derek, it will screw up my brother's fight". They'd have punched Derek's lights out without having time enough to even consider whether it was the right or the wrong move from a business point of view. That moment to me, was where I realised that Wlad isn't a fighter. NOBODY should just stand there and let a gay boy like Chisora spit in their face without starching him right there on the spot....and f*ck the consequences. I GUARANTEE you that Vitali wouldn't have just stood there. Like a trout that can't help itself....and snaps at the shiny lure, a FIGHTER would instinctively, in a nano-second, break Chisora's jaw for doing this, without having time to think about the consequences.
Vitali tried to choke Chisora out when he took the slap. Vitali was a real fighter. When Kingpin Johnson lost to Vitali he had a small crackdown in the ring, he snapped at Wlad when he tried to cool him down and Wlad almost pooped his pants.
Wow, so now, in addition to the American black half-wits who think all "white boys" are punks (which in all fairness, is mostly true when it comes to American whites ,who are ***** whipped, and NEVER fight back when the jakals harass them)....we have Russian half wits who think anyone from the former Soviet Union who isn't "Russian" is defective. What a f*cking comedy show this forum can be at times!!!
i want to do a sick in my mouth. don't ever try and compare that pile of trash Wlad to a genuine great like Lennox. shame on you all.