Lewis reason for not giving vitali a rematch.

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Lewis would have won the rematch imo.

 

The problem is not that Lewis didn't give Vitali a rematch, the problem was the way he conducted him for the 12 months after the fight.

Lewis was extremely cocky, asked for half a dozen doctor's certificates from Vitali's team showing he's fit to fight, waited until the WBC made Vitali the #1 challenger and chose to retire one day before the WBC threatened to strip him of the belt.

That was just unworthy of a true champ and Lennox basically pissed on his own legacy. Quite disgraceful.

 

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, turning down about $15.000.000 for an easy night's work. Man Lewis was a fool! Or maybe your reasoning fails, and it was HIS face he was worried about.

 

Lewis at his worst took Vitali in to the trenches so I have to agree with his logic that if I had trained like he used to the difference in class would have been more apparent in a rematch.

 

Fool, Lewis was not in his worst. He looked bad, because VK made him look bad, really bad, this why LL fans keep saying LL was in his worst and LL knows this very well.

 

Yes, its common for a fighter tosay *I didn't train/I was not motivated* or other such bull**** excuses to avoid the real reason why they didn't perform up to par: In this case, the OPPONENT prevented Lewis from performing as good as he normally does.


It wasn't the five extra pounds ( on a 250 pound man) that made a differenece in how Lewis was getting nailed, hurt, and trailing on the cards. It was the big Ukrainian who was causing it.

We don't know who would have won a rematch, but it could have went etiher way. Lewis KNEW he had a title defense coming up, and he's is a pro fighter, so he trained.......period. Easy to say some bull**** nonsense AFTER the fight.

VItlai was all he could handle, and VITALI is why the fight was a close slugfest, not five extra pounds or Lewis's bull**** claim to be *unprepared/umnotivated* for a professional fight on this level. Bull****.

Give credit where its due. :good

 

OK then, VITLAY lost like a true trooper. In the history of HW challengers there has been no bigger or greater loser than VITLAY. Is that OK?

In a rematch....well we all saw what happened when Lewis rematched guys that had beaten him. VITLAY, well we're not so sure there as he got his little brother to deal with his only other nemesis.

 

I think Lennox was a great boxer, but he should be ona payroll to shut up. Sure he didn't have any "hunger" to beat Vitali again. That's why he was advising Corrie Sanders and Danny Williams, because he didn't care.
The out of shape arguement is also crap. Lennox was 6 pounds heavier vs Vitali compared to vs Tyson. Lennox is a huge man and 6lbs is nothing. Take a shower and a ****, do a workout and that's it. His theoretical lack of shape wouldn't shape up in the first 6 rounds either. 6 lbs is not gonna make him slow as butterbean or run out of gas in 6 frigging rounds. I also heard before the fight that Lewis intentionally gained weight in the 1 week he knew he was fighting Vitali and not Kirk Johnson, to go along with his gampeplan of going head to head with Vitali and KOing him early(remember that Emmanuel Steward thought Vitali would be a scared choker with a shitty chin). The fact that Lewis actualy tries to use being out of shape as an excuse. That he thinks that it's better to be a world champion and not have the respect for his opponent and his fans to proberly train, than to have met a tough opponent, just shows what an ass he is.

Lewis also says the ref counted to fast against McCall. Lennox couldn't tell the difference between his arse and elbow when he stood there. Great boxer, but truly a arrogant, thick pric,.

 

I always love the way Klitschko fans debunk the Lewis 'excuses' while forgetting the FACT that Lewis actually won the fight, comfortably :rofl:rofl:rofl

 

Rahman said a lot of disrespectful things about Lewis in the build up to the rematch and it sounds as though Lennox still holds a grudge.You could see how fired up he was by his reaction to the win on the night.
As for Vitali,I Lewis was just past his best.He should just admit that,there is no shame in it.Had there been a rematch Vitali would have more than likely outpointed Lennox.In his prime Lennox would have beaten him but at that point in his career he would not have.

 

true story. vitali was possessed that night. nothing would have stopped him. He rocked the **** out of Lennox.

 

:good

 

The rahman KOing Lewis in their first fight wasnt that lucky a punch....for Sky tv we had Marvin Hagler co commentating the fight and several big right hands clocked Lennox in the previous rounds and Hagler was saying he cant keep taking these! And sure enough he took one too many and we saw what happend. Anyone doubting this go back and watch the fight - Lennox ate a good few big rights that night before he was KO'd. But there is no mistaking the fact that the 2 of Lewis's only losses came when he had become a little complacent and thought he had easy nights in front of him with lesser opponents than he thought were the best. He took 2 guys possibly 3 in Vitali and 2 of those he got KO'd. Vitali was a fight we can argue about till the cows come home we'll never know what might have happend in the next round or had they rematched. Its all speculation. But I will say I have never seen Lewis fight like that before - ever. I mean he was just out to brawl, little regard for using his boxing skills or footwork. Just go toe to toe and slug it out. I really think he believed Vitali was gonna be a pushover and would fold under that pressure. And we know he didnt but the stoppage was a very fair one - his face was hanging off! Those cuts were brutal and no fighter should be allowed to carry on in that state. The ref/doc saved him from maybe much worse. We'll never know but what a chin he showed to take some of those huge upper cuts off Lewis in that last round. I felt Lewis was starting to turn it in the last round..but a lot is also made of the fact that he slumped on his stool at the end of the last round and people were saying he's gassed out. Still I see this being another thread thats gonna run and run for a while, whilst people argue the same old points we've heard a million times before. All part of the fun I guess.

 

Being behind on the scorecards and relying on the ringside doctor to hand you a win is hardly winning the fight comfortably.

Klitschko took everything Lewis had that night, and he kept coming after him.

Lewis can talk all he wants, saying.....if this, if that, i would've done, blah blah.... He should've done what men do and honored his word to rematch and proved all the talk instead of running off minutes after Klitschko came back and destroyed Kirk Johnson.

Another Brit fighter with a big mouth but lacking the actions to back it up....what a surprise.

 

Either way, if he was only in it for the money..it really wouldn't have mattered..now would it??