Getting blown out early or stopped while comfortably ahead on points doesn't count as being outboxed. Wlad has never been outboxed, face it :deal
Lennox Lewis. . . Although Vitali was outboxing him before the unfortunate stoppage. The fact that Lewis retired thereafter, and basically accepted his win by default, tells you all you need to know about how he felt regarding his chances in the rematch. Lewis is definitely one of the best HW's of all time, but I did lose a little respect for him after promising the rematch, and then not giving it. . . I've never seen a boxer who was losing on the cards, win by default on cuts, and then not rematch. . . What an EPIC fight that would have been. . . Smh. . .
You can really make an argument both ways regarding this subject: 1.) These are the type of guys who just have that perfect style mesh, where if they fought 100 times, 99 would all be a toss-up. . . Neither can clearly beat the other. 2.) Why not? There still hasn't been a "real winner" from the first 3 fights, and there is just as much, if not more controversy now after the third fight, than there was after the first two fights.