Pele Reid KO2 Vitali, Ironfist Shamefully Attempted To Cover Up The Evidence

zxcvbnm · Mar 30, 2012

Juiceboxbiotch said: ↑

1. A spinning kick to the jaw will KO anybody.
2. There are no spinning kicks in Boxing.
3. Denied or not... this **** happened 2 decades ago.
4. The Byrd fight happened 12 years ago.

You guys are so entertainingly pathetic :rofl atsch

You ain't got ****, but by all means... keep tryin! :good
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I never denied any of those things.
WTF has Byrd got to do with this? I never even mentioned him :rofl

The Iron Worm said: ↑

Let me rephrase:

What's this got to do with their boxing careers?
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Vitali lied about being knocked out by a kick to the jaw in an attempt to continue the myth that he has an iron chin.

He is also trying to continue this myth by ducking his MANDATORY Bermane Stiverne who is a renowned hard hitter.

Juiceboxbiotch said: ↑

Hey, so... if he "shamefully attempted to cover up evidence..."

You probably won't be voting for him when he runs for Kiev mayor again eh? :nut
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I'm not from Ukraine anyway but of course not. Hopefully Vitali's election opponents discover this thread and expose him as a liar and unfit for office :rofl:rofl

Rudyard · Mar 30, 2012

SJS19 said: ↑

You take a spinning kick to the jaw from a 234lb man and tell me how you're doing.
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Exactly! its sad that people stoop so low to illustrate a non existing point!:-(

zxcvbnm · Mar 30, 2012

Juiceboxbiotch said: ↑

Funny thing... he's not my hero, but he doesn't have to be for me to simply point out how ******ed you are being.

Deception? I don't really care about **** he lies about regarding something that allegedly happened in a karate contest 20 years ago. I just... don't give a damn, and it's eternally funny how much some of you ****in idiots do.

:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl
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Vitali lied about being knocked out by a kick to the jaw in an attempt to continue the myth that he has an iron chin.

He is also trying to continue this myth by ducking his MANDATORY Bermane Stiverne who is a renowned hard hitter.

This **** matters, stop burying your head in the sand :roll:

vnyc · Mar 30, 2012

bremen said: ↑

starting with the fact that there was no WAKO European Kickboxing Championship in 1992 atsch

[url]http://www.wakoweb.com/en/InfoPage.aspx?Ctn=82088[/url]

:hi:
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Vitali is not a subhuman and it could have happened ,but I don't believe anything that comes from UK ,you can't trust brittards ,they're most delusional and blindly fanatic fans.

zxcvbnm · Mar 30, 2012

vnyc said: ↑

Vitali is not a subhuman and it could have happened ,but I don't believe anything that comes from UK ,you can't trust brittards ,they're most delusional and blindly fanatic fans.
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Actually it was the 1993 World Championships.
It happened, stop denying it. atsch

vnyc · Mar 30, 2012

zxcvbnm said: ↑

Vitali lied about being knocked out by a kick to the jaw in an attempt to continue the myth that he has an iron chin.

He is also trying to continue this myth by ducking his MANDATORY Bermane Stiverne who is a renowned hard hitter.

This **** matters, stop burying your head in the sand :roll:
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Stiverne??

vnyc · Mar 30, 2012

zxcvbnm said: ↑

Actually it was the 1993 World Championships.
It happened, stop denying it. atsch
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Britfag,I do believe it happened .

SimplyTheBest · Mar 30, 2012

Juiceboxbiotch said: ↑

...what? :huh
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see post #17 atsch

Vergilius · Mar 30, 2012

zxcvbnm said: ↑

Sadly, it is a well known fact that Vitali has done everything he can to destroy the video footage of this KO. He even had the nerve to deny that Reid's kick landed on his jaw in an attempt to continue the myth surrounding his "iron" chin.

"When quizzed about it, WBC Heavyweight Champion Klitschko allegedly asked, “Who’s Pele Reid?”, and when he was reminded that Pele was supposed to have KO’d him in a kickboxing match, Klitschko answered, “It was so long ago that I forgot all about him. I lost that fight because of a kick to the thigh, not because of any punch. Lennox is the biggest puncher in the world and he couldn’t knock me out.

Well it’s time to separate myth from reality and set the record straight. I HAVE SEEN THE FIGHT on video a week or two after it happened, and I also interviewed Pele Reid for a martial arts magazine earlier this year, and he spoke about what happened.

So here it is...the TRUE account of what happened, from an eye-witness and from the guy who was in the ring with him.

Firstly, a few facts about the fight. It was in Varna, Bulgaria at the WAKO European Kickboxing Championships, 1992, where each member country is allowed to enter a representative fighter. In the +89kgs Light-Contact division (which at this event was fought on a matted area, rather than in a boxing ring), Pele Reid was the Great British representative, while Klitschko was fighting for CIS (Russia). Both were singled out as top seeds immediately because of their sheer size: we all know Klitschko is listed at 6’7” plus, and Reid himself is a perfectly proportioned and muscular 6’4” and 235lbs or more.

Reid was initially taken back by the big Ukrainian’s size, and took up the story: “I breezed through the semi-finals, and Klitschko did, too. He happened to walk past me after our matches and I thought, ‘man, this guy’s big!’. Then he looks down at me and smirks like he’s measuring me up. I was like, (sucks teeth) ‘Look at this boy here trying to look at ME!’. He looked at me like he was gonna bust me up and I knew then that I just had to put him down.”

Reid and Klitschko met in the finals. After a quiet opening round that saw both taking a good look at what the other had, Klitschko began to open up. The Ukrainian lifted his leg to kick, left it out there for too long (the kickboxing equivalent of pawing with the jab), and Reid saw the opening, connecting with a perfect spinning kick that landed right on the tip of Klitschko’s jaw. The Ukrainian went down, and had it been regular Boxing or Kickboxing rules, there was no way there would have been any kind of ten-count. As it was, being a light-contact match, the ref just waved the fight off and Reid was the new European Champion.

With the help of an amateur video recorded by one of the members of the British team, I witnessed the knockout. The picture was perfect and there was no mistaking what had happened...Pele Reid knocked out Vitali Klitschko, not with a kick to the leg, but with a bonafide spinning kick to the jaw. Don’t believe me? I took this excerpt from the January 1993 issue of Martial Arts Illustrated, where a brief mention is given to the fight by writer Peter Lewis:

“Our fourth Gold came from Pele Reid when, after some superb fights, he met Klitschko of CIS (Russia) in the finals of the 89 plus category...an opponent even taller than Pele! With little trouble, Pele KO’d the huge Russian in round two with a reverse spinning kick to take the gold.”

After several more big medal victories around the world, Reid turned to pro-boxing and ran up a 13 fight knockout streak before losing to British Champion (and Mike Tyson-victim) Julius Francis. Suffering a further knock out loss to Orlin Norris, Reid bowed out with a 16-4-2 (15) record and entered the K-1 Kick/Thai-boxing Arena."
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This happened 20 years ago in an amateur, light contact kick-boxing fight (meaning the fight would be waved off if anyone went down with no count made - not exactly a boxing ko). Are we now judging fighters based on losses suffered in the amateurs and in different sports? What a sad, pathetic and bitter thread.

qwert · Mar 30, 2012

Why is this thread making people so angry? Vitali got KOed in a kickboxing tournament. He denied it. It's interesting because Vitali is known for having an iron chin. No need to get so upset.

zxcvbnm · Mar 30, 2012

SimplyTheBest said: ↑

Vitali TKO2 Francis
Vitali KO1 Norris
Vitali still ruling on top of the division.....where as Reid was run out of the sport
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Pele Reid TKO1 Michael Murray
Michael Murray TKO3 Kevin McBride
Kevin McBride TKO6 Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson TKO3/5 Frank Bruno
Frank Bruno UD12 Oliver McCall
Oliver McCall TKO2 Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis TKO6 Vitali Klitschko

Therefore Reid > Vitali. In boxing.
It's irrefutable :deal

zxcvbnm · Mar 30, 2012

vnyc said: ↑

I don't believe anything that comes from UK ,you can't trust brittards
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vnyc said: ↑

Britfag,I do believe it happened .
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:huh

Vergilius · Mar 30, 2012

qwert said: ↑

Why is this thread making people so angry? Vitali got KOed in a kickboxing tournament. He denied it. It's interesting because Vitali is known for having an iron chin. No need to get so upset.
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Well, the OP is misrepresenting what happened. This was a light-contact tournament in amateur kickboxing. That means if a fighter gets knocked down it is counted as a KO - there is no count. That's hugely different from a boxing KO. I actually remember seeing the footage of this once at an mma site, but I thought nothing of it at the time. Vitali is caught by a spinning kick (not a punch) is knocked down on all fours and the fight is called off. He wasn't unconscious and got back up immediately. It wasn't anything like a boxing KO, just a knockdown.

zxcvbnm · Mar 30, 2012

Vergilius said: ↑

Well, the OP is misrepresenting what happened. This was a light-contact tournament in amateur kickboxing. That means if a fighter gets knocked down it is counted as a KO - there is no count. That's hugely different from a boxing KO. I actually remember seeing the footage of this once at an mma site, but I thought nothing of it at the time. Vitali is caught by a spinning kick (not a punch) is knocked down on all fours and the fight is called off. He wasn't unconscious and got back up immediately. It wasn't anything like a boxing KO, just a knockdown.
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But why did Vitali feel the need to lie and say it didn't happen? :think

Vergilius · Mar 30, 2012

zxcvbnm said: ↑

But why did Vitali feel the need to lie and say it didn't happen? :think
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Could you possibly link a quote where he lies?

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