Lennox Lewis retirement age

Well... before the Vitali fight he was going around talking about how hes aging like fine wine, how he wants to snatch the S from Roys chest (roy jones), trying desperately to get Tyson back in the ring, ect, ect.

He then fights Vitali, and decides to retire.

So idk.

 

You seem pretty unhinged here. Me and my gang? lmao. Wtf are you talking about.... I dont really care about this subject, in fact this is probably only one of a handful of posts Ive ever even made on this fight (I dont have a single post in the entire 6 years of the tko 6 thread) so.... I am not quite sure wtf you are talking about 'me and my gang' As if this has been some sort of crusade of mine lol.

I am simply calling it as it was at the time. He was angling for a roy jones fight and a mike tyson rematch while continuing to want to dominate the division. Thats simply a fact and had nothing to do with a vitali fight.

If you want to say he said that specefic statement to sell fights, fine. But that has nothing to do with the fact he was maneuvering to continue fighting until he fought Vitali.

If you dont think had Kirk Johnson showed up instead of Vitali, that LL wouldnt have kept fighting after he easily dispatched Kirk, and that Vitali had nothing to do with LL retiring, then I dont know what to tell you.

This subject clearly makes you a bit sensitive for some reason. It is what it is. LL was an old champion who a younger Vitali made realize it was time to retire. I dont see the big deal.

 

Again, his actions outside the ring speak louder than his words. He was angling for fights with Roy Jones and Mike Tyson and would have no doubt continued fighting had he dispatched Kirk Johnson that night instead of getting roughed up by Vitali. So, yes, Vitali had something to do with him retiring and he would have likely retired later had that fight not occurred. Which is what this thread was asking.

 

Sure. Saying I am singling out only this case and not thousands of other cases, as if you somehow know what I do or dont post on or the fighters that I do or do not 'hold accountable' so to speak for what they say pre fight. And saying that I am only doing so on this occasion because 'best ever vitali lost bad to worst ever lewis'. As if I care about that. And then saying me and my gang wouldnt have made a peep in the last 14 years had it been tyson in there. You are acting like I have some anti Lewis, pro Vitali agenda and that this is an agenda I have repeatedly promoted through the years. I dont quite get that.

Again, if you think Lewis retires after an easy night against Kirk, and doesnt continue on.... theres not much to talk about there. I have little doubt a routine defense against Johnson isnt followed by another fight. But we will have to just agree to disagree. I just dont see how anyone that is removing their emotion from the subject and looking at it without bias doesnt acknowledge that Vitali is the one that showed Lewis its time to retire.

I pointed out above. You clearly overreacted to my post. You assumed my history, assumed my reason for taking my position, and assumed what I would have done in another scenario based on an assumed hyperbolic agenda you think I have. No biggie, it is what it is.

Personally I dont blame Lewis for retiring, he was past prime and at the right age. I would have personally like to have seen a rematch, and wish he would have (and I dont know why he didnt... would have been very big money and a chance as an elite competitor to take on your clearest rival in a fight you could come in at your best at, which he clearly wasnt in the first fight.) but that he didnt, I think is a lost chapter for heavyweight boxing, but I dont really blame him. He was 37 and probably knew he couldnt compete at that level anymore. Its natural.

 

What I will say, is in the future, if I ever post about this topic again in a few years lol, I wont (if I can remember) use the age like fine wine statement. You both are right in that regard, what a fighter says like that probably shouldnt be used as some sort of barometer as to their motives or situation at the time.

 

Are you being for real right now I literally explained to you what you said, and why it was overreacting. If you want the exact quote, I will quote your entire post

Pretty much everything within that quote is an incorrect, baseless, overemotional assumptive response that came out of the blue due to you seeming fairly sensitive on this issue for whatever reason. Not sure how you dont classify that as an overreaction, but... whatever lol.

Yes, definitely time to move on Take care.