Lennox vs Vitali, explain or just vote

Lennox was on his last legs. Did u see him collapse on to his stool? Manny Steward had to give him mouth-to-mouth. Vitail took Lewis' best shots and refused to quit. Vitali was just getting his second wind and no doubt Vitali would have knocked out Lewis in the 7th if not for that stupid doctor who stopped the fight due to that cat scratch on Vit. Then Lennox, who promised Vitali a rematch, bitched out and decided instead to stink up the HBO broadcast booth instead of the ring w/his arrogance.

:rofl :rofl :rofl

 

Vitali was hurt badly and would have probably had his career ended had it continued. A great fight none the less and Viatli showed alot of heart.

 

Lewis put a horseshoe in his glove, everybody knows that, he even admitted it in an interview.

 

i really liked the fight and i dislike the debate after it but it shows me und all of us that a good match-up can have two winners: the fighters and us. lewis took vitalis best shots and did not go down and vice versa. i am a huge lennox-fan and vitali earned a lot of respect for his heart by giving his best but in the end it was so close. he had to knock lennox out because he knew the fight would be stopped on his cuts but he did not manage to knock out an old ATG.

 

The cut was very nasty, Vitali was given every reasonable chance to turn things around, and the injury was undoubtably caused by a punch.That is a conclusive ending, like it or not.Lennox was 37 years old at the time so he can't be faulted for retiring afterwards, it was a smart move.So whats all the fuss about?

 

Great fight. The cut was unfortunate as we were robbed of a better ending.

I think Vitali would have taken Lewis out.

 

I voted "The result is all that matters, Lennox won". As stated in the original post the fight was in 2003. Who cares about the early rounds, Lennox won. I do think he would have stopped Vitali had it continued.

 

The fight had a disappointing ending, and while you cannot *blame* Lewis for not rematching him, due to his age and the chance to go out on top- I think it would have been the honorable thing to do.

I'm not sure how to phrase it, but it seems Lewis lost, if he ever had it, his warrior, or gladiator spirit and was no longer concerned so much with the real glory of the boxing ring, or maybe too concerned about his image/legacy and worried about suffering a loss.

It was a back and forth fight, and while Lennox clearly won a TKO victory, it is silly to think you can accurately predict what would have happened had the fight not been stopped, I think both fighters had the tenacity and chins to take it 12 rounds to a decision, albeit they would have been dead tired and barely standing by leaning on each other by the end... it would have been epic. More epic, anyways.

 

My thoughts are that the fight happened 4 years ago, Lennox Lewis won and everyone should get over it. *If* the cut didn't happen maybe it would have turned out different. But the cut did happen, and the stoppage was not out of line at all, all the complaining and debating isn't going to change a thing. I can't believe how many people still get riled up discussing this fight

 

Lennox TKO6.... Nuff Said:deal

 

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Vitali looked out of gas at the end of the sixth the seventh round would have been Lewis's all day not saying he would have stopped Vitali in that round but judging from the way Vitali looked at the end of the 6th Lewis might have we just dont know, so lets just say Lewis wins the next round, That cut would have gotten worse as a result of the fight moving forward.
Taking away any vision Vitali had away from him regarding that eye, and I am sorry against a banger Like Lewis you must have both eyes to win, I am assuming after the 7th Vitali would have picked up his second wind, However the damage from that cut and the blood would have made it harder for Vitali to do much with that second wind.
Either way clearly to me Vitali was in big trouble with the cut alone, he was just as tired as Lennox at the end of the sixth but remember Lewis did land about six or seven solid upper cuts at the end of the sixth that left Vitali holding on at the end of the round.
I agree its a toss up, but with one eye and being out of gas that 7th round would have been Hell, Lewis IMO would have knocked him out

 

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