Did Vitali retire to avoid Rahman

Rahman is, was and always has been a mediocre fighter - a one-hit wonder with a glass jaw, who Vitali would have easily starched had the fought. The idea that he retired to "avoid" the china-chinned Rahman is silly.

 

Good post, Rah,man really faced the better competition, i dont get it why everybody is so high about Vitali.

 

Lets face it, here's what HR accomplished after the only big win of his career. He went a "sparkling" 0-3-1 including being KTFO vs Lewis. He then fights a string of near nobodies and gets a title shot vs the so-so Monte Barrett - an awful excuse of a "fight", never mind a title fight. He then draws with JT, an overweight CWT; is stopped again by Oleg; and manages a UD over Sykes, who Peter blasted out in 2. I thought HR is a big puncher? See? This is easy.
Truly, there are few fighters who have based thier "greatness" from just one win. Lewis haters point to that loss as a big reason why LL isn't all that great. I think that's unfair as HR can bang, and anybody can get caught a few times in a long career.

Baloney. He sustained some bad cuts vs LL. That's why he lost. And he was still fighting well with those cuts.

Why risk a career ending injury? Does anybody but a Vitali hater not think that he could defeat Byrd today like he was then?

The way Johnson tried to do? :rofl If the weak chinned HR pressed Vitali and got caught it would be a repeat of the Kirk fight.

Like some here, I don't use wild exaggertaions and selective sampling to make my points. HR has displayed big punching ability as a HWT, he also has shown average stamina and chin. HR has fought more name fighters than Vitali, and except for that one shinning moment loses or draws most of the time he has stepped up. The complete joke is to use a fighters losses to his name opponents to justify he's better then someone else. And magnify his one win above all else.

A healthy Vitali would have few problems beating a heathy HR. :bart

 

I bet Rahman pisses his panties at the thought of fighting any klitschko right now.
Did the mountain of deformity ever swell down from his forehead after getting whupped by older and slower maskaev?

vitali would have killed Hasim "I must be in the front row" Rahman.

 

Yea, Vitali has been retired for almost 3 years, due to his fear for Hasim Rahman. Not only that, but he gave up a 9 million dollar payday, and wasted thousands upon thousands of dollars, and almost a full year of off and on training camps out of that same fear. I am sure that it had nothing to do with completely blowing out his knee a week out from the fight. I mean, within that year he only under went back and knee surgery. Any decent man who wasn't in fear of another would have taken the back surgery, entered into training camp, and then after they blew out that knee, they would have underwent surgery after the weigh in's on Friday, and stepped into the ring anyways on Saturday. Of course, Vitali was scared of the beast Rahman, after seeing his amazing display against an old Holyfield, and his amazing war with John Ruiz, and couldn't dare step into the ring with him. It is that same fear of Rahman that has kept him sidelined for almost 3 years. Imagine all of the millions that Vitali could have made in that time... if not for the fear.

 

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Just shut up.

It's been a long time since Wlad lost do we not have anything better to bash the Klit's about?

Just the thought of Rahman being an "avoided" fighter is laughable.

 

exactly the Haters are grasping for straws at this point, bringing up this stupid arguement is laughable.:-(

 

McCline at least has a chin. Seldon is more along the lines of Rahman - grade A china. :nod

 

I Think Not ****o's

 

He left a guaranteed $8 million on the table and paid reputable doctors to lie about performing major surgery on him in order to avoid the might Hasim Rahman :nut