Why would I duck you you're not exactly a challenge I couldn't care less about Cuba one way or the other
If real life issues were stopping Vitali from fulfilling his duties as WBC Champion then he shouldn't have been WBC Champion. Either the organization should have stripped him or he should have had the integrity and respect for the sport to relinquish his belt and not hold the division to ransom. The political issues in Ukraine are not something which excuses Vitali sitting inactive with his belt for 16 months, avoiding his mandatory for 9 months, missing three deadlines to accept the purse and missing two deadlines to announce his future plans - if anything, they should have necessitated his relinquishing the belt far sooner. He was treating the sport of Boxing with contempt and was disrespecting every other heavyweight in the world but particularly Stiverne.
As I said, you, reality and the truth are all total strangers. That much is reinforced with your every post. But I've provided you with all the click-bait responses I am going to. Good luck with your trolling though.
Vitali is the only WBC Heavyweight Champion in history to have been inactive for 16 months as it's reigning Champion and only the WBC Heavyweight Champion in history to have retired twice after twice stringing along mandatories for several months. The WBC bent over backwards to acommidate him and he ****ed them in the ass and showed he had no respect for them or the sport of boxing.
Lol... the major issues in Ukraine intensified towards the end of his WBC reign. That's a little more serious than the sport of boxing. He did decide to call it quits at the age of 41. Nobody was demanding any type of unfinished business or rematches when he went. The WHOLE BOXING WORLD wanted to see 37 year old Lewis rematch Vitali. It was WAY different than the Vitali situation
I don't think you can judge Lewis/Vitali H2H on that fight since they fought like a sparring war. Meaning they just went at it, no strategy, no thought, just banging. Lewis wasn't the best at exchanging anyways as seen in that fight. The fight would be totally different if they both had a real camp. Lewis should have rematched him though, I don't care about the excuses. That was a very political retirement because he knows many fans would celebrate a boxer retiring on his own, and since he won technically, he had an out. There's always a segment of fans out there that complain when a champion doesn't know when to give it up. I was never one of those.
Then he should have ****ing relinquished the belt to focus on the political issues in Ukraine. If he obviously could not fulfill his duties as WBC Champion then he had no business being WBC Champion. If the issues in Ukraine were so important then it was a far greater reason for him to relinquish the belt then it was to for him to hang onto it and have to deal with the Boxing world demanding he fulfill his his obligations as a World Champion on top of dealing with political issues in his country. And he had a ****ing mandatory who had earned a shot at the WBC belt, who he avoided fighting for 9 months, three times getting the WBC to put back deadline for accepting the purse bid then getting them to suspend it altogether because he claimed to be injured. He robbed Stiverne of the title shot Stiverne had earned against him, and by putting of deciding his boxing future for so long he prevented Stiverne from becoming Champion in 2013 - when Stiverne first beat Arreola Vitali had already been inactive for 7 months. The whole boxing world was demand he fight or retire and was quite fed up with his failure to make up his mind by the final months of 2013. It was a ****ing farce.