Dominating a fight, and having to pull out because of an injury is considered being schooled? Have you ever stepped inside of a ring before?
No bragging but I've ****ed a lot of dudes up in street fighting which I think is more dangerous than stepping in the ring. My record since I was 13 years old is 12-0. Back to Vitali. I've seen plenty of fighters with worse injury stick it up and come out victorious. Arthur Abraham in recent memory went the distance with devastating Puncher in Edison Miranda and came out vicotorious. Ali went 15 rounds with Ken Norton with a broken Jaw. There no reason large man the size of Vitali should quit against powder punching blown up middleweight in Chris Byrd. That's not hating bro that just the had truth. P.S. I never said Vitali was schooled by Chris Byrd, reread my post.
you are a clown thinking that wlad, vitaly or lewis would stand any sort of chance against modern superathletes like corrie sanders(r.i.p) hasim rahman or chris byrd..
Corrie Sanders got lucky. He was also a freak athlete (dude ran a 10.9 second 100 meter dash in high school). He was a genuinely talented athlete with tremendous explosive power, and speed. If he actually dedicated himself to the sport he would have been one of the greats.
Regardless of whether Vitali shouldn't have quit (I think he using his head rather than his ***** when rendering his cognitive thought process) it doesn't change the fact that Vitali would be probably undefeated, or have one loss if he didn't suffer two unfortunate flukes in his career. In my opinion Vitali would have been too physically overwhelming for most heavyweights in the history of the sport. He didn't lack a killer instinct either.
rendering his cognitive thought process? You act as though George Foreman was punching Vitali. There was 3 rounds left in that fight. All Vitali had to do was jab and move.
Vitali would clean out the heavyweight division. Anyone who claims that Vitali could not fight is a damned ignorant idiot.....................
That phrase sounded a bit silly. I am guilty sometimes of overly articulate prose. Now back to the topic. Vitali just weighed the possibility of never fighting again to finishing the fight. He chose the former instead of the latter. I personally think he should have finished, but just because he quit doesn't necessarily mean that it invalidates his standings in the H2H rankings, and that he wouldn't whip most past heavyweights. Vitali was just victim to unfortunate circumstance twice in his career. And didn't he break his hand in the Chisora fight only to finish strong by dominating the rest of the bout? :think
Lewis was heavy and not in shape he had been training for an easy defence before his farewell opponent pulled out . So yes an overweight and unprepared lewis beat a younger motivated challenger
Man, he was fat as hell, you could see a fat tub of lard on this photo with giant belly. Lewis was morbidly obese, just take a closer look :good He looks like fatter version of Chauncy Welliver on this photo
The LL that won the tko6 match simply got lucky. No cut on vitali = no win. A Prime LL is a different matter, though it would have to be defined when did prime LL stop and the other version start. I doubt Bowe or holyfield would beat Vitali. Holyfield is a blown up cruiserweight, his predominant claim to fame being the tyson wins, but tyson post prison is past his prime for me and besides, as a 5'11 fighter he is even smaller than holyfield, Klitschko imo is a different matter. I dont see any version of Holyfield capable of beating Vitali.