Should've Lennox gave Vitali a rematch?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6CJOlm13y4

Lewis and vitali in 2007 being friendly in a ring, why all the hate by klitschko fans when vitali is friends with the guy? There is a massive difference between business and the validity of public posturing between 2 active fighting rivals but the reality is as above and all the interviews and statements of 2003 were merely public posturing to try and get a big money fight, there was no promise and no obligation.

Its funny, the same people that think Lewis should have kept on fighting and give him no credit at 37 years and 9 months old for beating a 31 year old prime vitali, they are the same people who have a go at Lewis for fighting Holyfield and Tyson when they were older and urge Holyfield to retire!

 

Yes he should have given the rematch that he promised he would.
He didn't because he did not feel confident. Why else pass up your last chance at a multi million dollar fight?

 

I don't think people will have ever let Lewis retire graciously, even if he went on untill he was 50 years old. It doesn't matter who he beat or how long he went on for, certain people will never accept the fact he retired at the top.
Lennox Lewis is not responsible for Vitali's failures. If Vitali never made it at the very top, people should look elsewhere for answers.

 

Ater that fight if I was Lewis's manager I never would have let him anywhere near Klitschko again. That fight looked the beginning of the end of his reign of dominance. Retirement was definitely the wise choice.

I know a lot of fans found the stoppage a major disappointment and an unsatisfying end to a highly competitive fight but that was too brutal of a fight to make me believe Lewis was headed anywhere but serious trouble in the future. Better that he retire with his all his faculties intact. He took a lot of punishment in that fight. It looked like one of those fights that could be career altering. I think both of them left a little bit of themselves in the ring that night.

 

Hasn't that always been considered a good thing?

 

It was Lewis's choice to retire, he did the right thing. The problem though he sat on the title for half a year before he retire. VK should have goting his return bout in that time frame imo.

 

And Vitali has held the WBC title hostage all this year when Maskaev and Peter could have been fighting their fight, but oh no, Vitali insisted he get the Maskaev fight before Peter did, then after months of talks he decides he wont be ready to fight Maskaev and backs out of talks allowing them to have the fight they were going to have months and months ago!

 

LEWIS TKO6 QUITALI :yep :deal

must pain you when you see that big fat L next to vitalis name.

 

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No.

Lewis won by TKO. And the winner of a fight can give a rematch or not. And Lewis retired, he did not box another boxer, so i say he did the right thing from his own point of view and this is the right of the winner.

 

Subsequent events have proved that it's VITLAY that is the ***** weakling, not Lewis. I bet Lewis actually regrets not rematching the guy in hindsight, chances are VITLAY would have pulled out with some bull**** injury once his bluff was called anyway :yep

 

Lewis is too fat and out of shape to give anybody a fight let alone a rematch to a cripple.

 

He beat the **** out of the guy once when he was fat and out of shape, I wouldn't be too surprised if he did it again. You'd have to drag VITLAY out of the hospital for the fight though.

Might be easier to cut out the middle man and leave the big bum in there in the first place :deal