Lewis v Klitschko: the Cut

Are you going for another Klitschko fan quote of the week or something :rofl:rofl:rofl

 

Both had an exciting fight Ruiz/Tua and Byrd/Ibeabuchi, does anyone know when Ike gets out of jail a complete nutter who can really punch could liven things up a bit.

 

so that makes powerpuncher and vitali brothers, correct?

 

I know this sounds a bit ridiculous, but if I had to choose an opponent for Lewis out of Byrd, Grant and Ruiz, I would have chosen Ruiz. Coming off the Holyfield fights, the guy adapted to this ugly safety first fighting style that gave guys fits. He befuddled Kirk Johnson, Evander Holyfield and later Rahman, with it, so I was really interested to see how Lewis who wasnt a quick guy himself, would matchup against him. Lewis had such a long list of the same type of opponents stylewise, big strong slow imobile opponents, that I wanted to see him in different.
Ruiz, as ugly as his style was would have made Lewis approach the fight completely different than he had been used to. He couldnt go in banging with a big righthand, he would have to setup landable combinations as Ruiz came forward, something that gave even quicker fighters a bit of trouble. Ugly but interesting from a style standpoint. Probably an uppercut which Lewis had a good one of, would end it late.

 

Byrd became Lewis' mandatory after defeating the still well regarded Tua in 2001 after Lewis had just defended his belt against him the previous winter. I might add it was a lighter fitter Tua as well.

 

Okay, but Byrd defeated Tua AFTER Lewis's destruction of Grant. I was merely addressing the fact that some felt that Lewis should have faced Byrd in place of Grant.