Lewis v Klitschko: the Cut

Mendoza, let it go. You seem to be quite bitter about that. We all know you are a big Vitali fan. He fought a great fight against Lewis but got stopped fairly. That was 6 years ago. You can´t change it. It´s ovah!

 

OOPs make that 100million

Up until 1997, his purses for 34 fights had earned him £25m, and a year later he signed a seven-fight deal with HBO, the American cable network, which netted him a further £40m. Winning the world title from Holyfield in their 1999 rematch brought in another £18.5m and his earnings between 2001 and 2002 when he defeated Mike Tyson were over £30m.
Lewis’s earning power was reduced in 2003 to around £9m but, taking account of his career prize-money and limited endorsements, Lewis is easily worth £100m, allowing for tax and any investment income. Any dilemma for Lewis could only arise out of the mediocrity of talent which makes a mockery of what was once the richest prize in sport.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article1434298.ece

 

I could make a thread about this tomorrow and it would still get mutiple pages.

 

On page 3 you said it was $18,000,000.00....do you even believe this crap yourself?

Not that it matters, in 100 years time people will look at the career of Lewis and it'll still say TKO6 V.Klitschko. People will also look at the career of Klitschko and say "well he can't have been that good, he lost to old man Lewis in his last fight" :good:deal

 

In terms of entertainment that was probably one of the best heavyweight fights in years, and undoubtedly made a lot of lewis distractors pause and think about who good he actually was. Vitali was no push over and after the second round it basically became a fight, rather than a boxing match, one that everyone knew wasn't going to go the distance. But at mentioned, it wasn't just the cut above the eye, that caused Vitali trouble, his mouth was split open and he was swallowing a lot of blood. They even mentioned that in the broadcast how that can affect someone. But the safety of the fighters is always the most consideration, and so those Vitali fans who wished their fighter would have continued and risk lossing his sight confuses the hell out of me. Fact is Lewis won the 6th rounds on all the cards, and wasn't going to just sit on a stool in round 7 and say I've had enough, he'd have fought until he dropped, as would have Vitali.

 

Lewis gets a pass for everything he does dont you know? He beat Bowe in the olympic so he would have destroyed him in the pros, he was ducked by Bowe, Tyson and Holyfield, but he didnt duck Byrd or Ruiz, because he was so much better than them those were useless defenses. It didnt matter he was knocked out by Mcall and Rahman because he avenged both defeats. He didnt need to rematch Vitali because he was old and needed to retire. atsch

 

He whooped the **** out of all 3, now stop crying :|

 

Rahman is the perfect example. After Vitali retired, needed multiple surgeries for his knees and back, people still constantly talked about how he 'ducked' Rahman cuz he knew Rock would destroy him.

Lennox was 37 when they fought, not 38 as every keeps saying, and nobody was talking about him being too old when he fought Tyson.

My problem with the Lennox rematch thing is as mentioned, his constant **** talk once he retired, he still does it to this day. He always crticizes Vitali, he's picked every fighter since to beat Vitali before the fight(Johnson,Sanders,Peter,Gomez, etc) and when talking about their match it's always 'had it continued, i would of.... i was just getting started' etc.

The fact that he tries to talk Vitali down, lives vicariously through every opponent Vitali's faced since then hoping they'll beat him makes me lose alot of respect for him and also makes me believe that he knows he wouldn't have won a rematch and that's why he retired.

 

But Lewis is correct when he says that. The thing is all this speculation and BS about how great Vitali was that night is based on a 6 round fight, and a fight that Lewis was clearly starting to come on strong in and Vitali was fading even before the cuts, so for me that was enough to come to the conclusion that Vitali didnt do **** other than start pretty good against Lewis (for the reason I mentioned in a prior post, Lewis having to fight uncharacteristically, etc), so in my mind it was fine for Lewis to call that a win and retire. Klitschko fans should be happy, because people make more of a stink about that than actually putting the fight in a realistic perspective even if Vitali did win.
And by the way I doubt Lewis is vicariously living through all Vitalis garbage opponents.

 

Oh, well allow me to show you some sources I have seen 15 and 18 million.

How does 25 MILLION Sound

" King has offered 25 million Pounds (1,575 million Baht) to Lewis, 43, for a rematch with Klitschko, said British newspaper The Sun. "

http://muaymag.com/europe-profi/don-king-offers-lewis-rematch-with-klitschko.html

Owned on this topic as usual:deal

 

Exactly right. I still respect Lewis a lot as a fighter though. top 4 ATG in my book.

 

This is beginning to beat-off.............. Lewis won fair and square............. BUT! V.K. is my man in 2009.....

MR.BILL

 

nut:nut How the hell is that 'owned', a quote from a Thai paper that is quoting a British tabloid - the WORST British tabloid at that atsch

Even if the report is true, do you really think Don King would offer Lewis £25,000,000 (what's that, about $40,000,000?) if he actually thought Lewis would take it?

Also, I wonder how much he'd be offering VITLAY....about £5,000,000 would be my guess, King knows who the real champion was.

 

No wonder you have ten thousand posts....., no likey reality........you are clueless about finances, lol, X amount paid for a fight ain't take home noob, if you would have any comprehension what is deducted even before taxes you would not need to google some tabloid BS.

Now back to your regular scheduled program of idolizing your father figure Lemmie.

 

I take it you noticed this was 6 years after he retired and are just trying to wind people up but still it made me laugh