Klitschko fan, quotes of the week!

He had a torn rotator cuff, a bad injury but not as bad as the ones listed and he looked to me like he could have went on for longer. I could have understood it if he was behind on the cards or if it was even close but he just had to not get KO'd.

 

We know this with the benefit of hindsight. Vitali didn't know this when he chose to quit. All he knew he couldn't lift his arm and he had some form of a serious injury that MIGHT get worse if he continued.

 

If I'm underestimating the seriousness of the injury my apologies to Vitali and his fans but I thought it was quite a common injury in sports that involve using the shoulder a lot e.g tennis players get similar injuries too do they not?

I also thought he had got the injury early in the fight and had lasted several rounds carrying the injury already?

However, there has been no other occasion I can think of when his heart could be questioned so maybe I have been underestimating the seriousness of it.

 

I didn't care to respond to that

 

Fair enough and as I said in the last line of my previous post it's not like he has quit fights regularly or his heart could often be called into question.

 

I had never heard of the type of muscle myself until I saw a German surgery professor on TV on some Klitschko press conference one week after the fight, showing and explaining the injury.

Obviously this guy was paid by the Klitz so we ought to take all this with a grain of salt. But still, the guy was (allegedly) one of the leading surgeons in Germany for shoulder surgery. I remember the professor saying the "pain is enough to paralyze an elephant bull, it was only due to the amount of adrenaline in a boxers system they initially don't feel much pain but it grows bigger by the minute".

I remember it was until weeks after the surgery that it still wasn't at all clear if Vitali could ever box again. Allegedly there is a big difference between a partial tear of the tendon and a complete tear (like Vitali's).

I found this on Google just now:

http://www.injuryupdate.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=1093

Doesn't sound like the run of a mill twisted ankle type athlete injury.

 

Yeah, Lewis was horribly fat and out of shape against Vitali as you stated. I had Lewis winning on the scorecards as well. Unfotunately a cut ended a classic fight.

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Vitali was losing the fight. Right.

The fight ended on a cut any way.

 

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I meant his reputation needle-dick!

 

If you had no bias then you wouldn't have said Lewis was busting up Vitali for a full 6 rounds. Lewis won 2-3 rounds IMO and landed more accurate and heavier punches as the fight progressed. Vitali took the earlier rounds by landing significant bombs that rocked Lewis.

In fact, this was one of Lewis' hardest fights, yet the Vitali haters make it sound as if this was a walk in the park for Lewis.

Yes, he clearly wasn't in his best shape as he grossly underestimated the chin and willpower of Vitali but that was Lewis' own mistake, not Vitali's. Lewis chose to make life harder than necessary for himself, he paid the price in the ring.

Vitali at 38 looked physically much fitter than Lewis did at 37 so it's not a question of age but a question of discipline, professional attitude and willpower.