LL v VK.... What is your opinion?

I started out by saying it was a legit stoppage and stand by that.

I'm not VK's lawyer but his 'excuse' at the time was that Lewis original opponent was similar physically to Vit, whereas Vit had to change his gameplan (and sparring partners etc,) to fight Lewis, who was much bigger than his original opponent.......Sounds reasonable to me.

 

This has been discussed countless times here and I can't blame anyone for starting it all over again, the fight was a shocking one and an amazing one as well.

I had Vitali winning at the time of the stoppage but it was clear that Lewis was slowly coming back especially after Vitali's cut. It's still a confusing fight, even though Lewis was winning late because of the cut he was also very tired and didn't fire when he had Vitali wide open infront of it, even when he loaded Vitali had the ability to take it despite his serious cuts.

The stoppage, in my opinion, was a fair one and the cuts came from punches and NOT headbutts as some claimed, the third round is enough proof and the cuts just got worse. If they continued it would have been horrible and career threatening for Vitali more than Lewis.

 

Hey there, Scar...i haven't read one of your posts in a while.

They are always very fair and very well thought out. :good

 

"I wanted to fight a bum so couldn't be arsed training" isn't a valid excuse if you ask me.
You would have thought that after Lewis-Rahman I that Lewis should have learned to take every fight seriously.
Anyway, why fight this 'bum' (I don't remember who it was,) when VK was there waiting for his shot?

 

"It only took me 4 rounds to KO Rahman when he was in his prime and it took Wk 7 rounds against this version" was pretty bitchy you must admit.

 

The person was kirk johnson and vitali alredy had a fight linned up as well.

 

As I've said I'm not VK's lawyer but he cancelled his fight and obviously wanted to fight Lewis so it's not like Lewis couldn't get him into the ring.

 

I Johnson is 6 inches shorter than Klitschko, it does make BS of Klitschko's comment at the time though.

 

After Rahmann fu**in KO´d him in the first match

I like both guys, Lennox and Vitali. The fight was one for the historybooks in my opinion. Lennox won because of the horrible cut but should have given Vitali a rematch. Peace out

 

It's economical with the truth.....he never said "it only took one clean shot from this guy and it was goodnight Lennox when I was at my prime".

You can be arrogant and bitchy at the same time e.g. Have you theen hith hair-do, tho 1990's - never catch me like that!

 

My opinion is that Lewis cut him with a punch. When you take a punch there is always a risk of knockout or injury, which is why we have defence. In that respect there is little luck involved, I don't have much sympathy in this case. It's just part of the trade for a boxer.