Lewis - Klitschko: who won?

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Beating Vit devisively in a rematch and then retireing wouldve done wonders for his legacy imo.
Of course it was well within his right to call it a day after a long and successfull career, but there will always be a sour taste bc of that evidenced by 2-3 threads per week on this subject to this day.

 

he wanted to retire after the tyson fight a year earlier, he already said he wanted to retire after the vitali fight before the fight happened did he not? no reason to keep going in and taking beatings while your health is intact and you have no desire to want to keep fighting. he was out of shape and the heaviest hed ever bin, had he taken the rematch seriously and trained his ass off i think he would have taken the fight. who knows, its only useless hypothetical blabbing

 

The difference is that he was ahead in those fights until fluke KOs. Everyone saw he was ahead and would rather easily win rematches.

Against Vitaly he was behind on points and looked like he was losing until the cuts. So he and most fans would not have been sure at all that he could beat Vitaly in a rematch.

 

He did good for the first 3 rounds, after that Lewis started to impose his will on him and started to land punches on his eye, and that caused the cut.

Why are people calling Lewis lucky for that cut? HE WAS THE ONE WHO CAUSED IT BY LANDING PUNCHES.

And don't forget that wasn't a prime Lewis anyways, he was already what 38?
Just imagine what a prime motivated Lewis would've done.

 

Well it seems you watched a different fight to me, the judges and most other people then.

 

Luis won but he wasn't the better man. It's not a contradiction...

 

Old and fat? Hmm...weird. Lewis was in his prime just a year previous when he beat the corpse of Mike Tyson.

It was Vitali who took the fight at short notice, and you think that fight was easy for Lewis? Did you not see his exhaustion and relief at the end?

Fact is he underestimated Vitali, was getting a beating before getting lucky with a cut then retired like a *****.

 

I had the fight 3-3 at the time of the stoppage. Vitali's eye was royally ****ed and he was eating right hands every time Lennox could muster to wind to throw them but Lennox was gasping for air like an emphysema patient in a marathon. Had the cuts not existed Vitali probably would have stopped Lewis.

That being said, those cuts didn't magically spring into existence on Vitali's eye and they weren't the product of a fluke potshot but rather the fact that Vitali's low left was leaving him wide open for the punch all night. Lennox hit him with a plethora of rights and his jab was finding a home, as well, when he bothered to throw it. People conveniently forget that Lennox was gassed by round 2 and took the fight on two weeks notice. Had he been in shape we might have seen an entirely different fight but we can't know that.

What we do know is that Lennox punched Vitali multiple times in the eye, gashed him above and below it, and he won the fight because Vitali was risking permanent damage by having his paper face punched any more.

Lennox won, he deserved the victory but Vitali, and the boxing public, deserved a rematch with a motivated and in-shape Lewis to settle the score and it sucks that we're having this conversation rather than talking about a decisive match between the two. This was the last HW title fight that was worth a **** and that sucks, too.

 

This is what Lewis fans need to see.

Questions will always be asked because their man quit rather than face Vitali again to settle the score.

 

it was a draw

 

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Not again!!!!!!!!

 

Lewis won tko 6

The worst Lewis we have seen started the fight slow but by the end was walking down Vitali, and hurting him.

It is clear which fighter didn't really want anymore at the end of the 6th, the one who was staggering around the ring holding on for dear life and almost walking to the wrong corner after the bell.

Credit to Vitali for his acting skills (NO!!!) after the bout after being prompted to complain.

 

^:deal

Many people overlook the highlighted part.

 

No, chance. You're not their type. Everyone knows Rihanna loves Klittards