Vitali-AT LEAST in the top 3 highest KO percentages in history for a heavyweight.

The guy was totally underdone, wasn't sharp or mobile in any way, he didn't put the hard work in at the gym, didn't prepare for the fight, it obviously showed. It's Johnsons' fault not Vitalis' but regardless you've got to factor it in.

 

I personally don't give a **** about a particular fighters fans.............or what they think. I wouldn't let it cloud my judgement as to whether they were a good or dominate fighter. But hey, that's just me.

I make no excuses and some poster once said that Vitali may have injured his shoulder trying to hit a very elusive fighter - Byrd and I believe that did play a role no doubt. Byrd won fair & square & so did Lewis.

BUT

It's not as if either way beating Vitali to the punch or knocked him down or even outlanded him in punches landed.

That's my point.

 

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Read my last post bonehead & you may see the light.

Not all fans are the same. It's not Brewster's fault that Wlad had some serious physical ailment during their fight, he just did what was nec. to capitalize on his condition. Fair play in my book as it is each fighter's own responsibility to keep in fighting shape throughout the fight.

 

Vitali lost both those fights but in no way was he losing at the time of the stoppages. Those losses still count against Vitali's legacy and maybe that's why he wanted to come back, that and the amount of money he can make......................

 

Rahman already managed it... before Vitali.

 

Punches landed means **** when you know your opponent is physically weaker than you, which is what got old Lewis past VITLAY - Lewis fought reckless because he knew it wasn't going to the cards, and it wasn't the first time he'd done this, so why pick on the VITLAY fight?

Lewis did the same against Bruno and was down on the cards in a similar way to the VITLAY fight before he dropped the bomb, yet you don't get Bruno fans complaining on here day and night, because they know their guy lost. VITLAY lost just as badly (if not worse) as Bruno and was doing no better than Frank on the cards at the time of stoppage, what's the big deal??

By no means am I trying to make Lennox out to be superman here, he tried the same **** against McCall and Rahman and you saw the results. However you spin it, VITLAY didn't have the tools that those 2 did to take advantage of the situation.

 

try and go outside loose some fat cause your klit-hating is making you loose credibility but not weight.

 

The only serious physical ailment WALDO had in the Brewster fight was a glass chin, just ****ing admit it and move on.....it's these kind of excuses that give me the shits when it comes to the Klits. Their fans claim that all time greats like Lewis and Jones had glass chins but make bull**** excuses up for their guys when they get KO'd by **** opposition. Damn at least Lewis and Jones had REASONABLE excuses when they got laid out :yep

 

Grow up doum-bell :good

 

Good GOD this repetition of Lewis being old, rusty, unmotivated, out of shape, etc., gets old.

The man is a pro boxer and knew he had a fight coming up, and he prepared for it, period. I even read he was training VERY hard for the Vitali fight.

He was maybe a few pounds over his ideal weight, but some of you make it sound as if 5 pounds is a major hinderance to a 245 pound heavyweight. 5 pounds is nothing, and Lewis was still showing defined abs, but you are desperate to make Lewis look past it, so you cling to anything, no matter how trivial.

He wasn't 45 years old, 43 years old, or 48 years old. He was only 37, and was still at a decent age for a heavyweight.

So stop with the bull**** excuses. Vitali and Lewis were both prepared, in shape, and neither was too old to perform, so stop with the comedic nonsense about how Lewis was a fat, unmotivated, shell of a once great fighter, cause its making me a bit nautious..

Lewis managed to catch Vitali, tear his skin, and won the fight, fair and square. A win is a win.


But as for Vitali in defeat..........a loss on a cut is in no way, a reason to discredit a fighter who was holding his own against one of the greats. A fighter who was actually winning on the cards at the time of the stoppage.

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Yada yada yada, bull**** bull**** bull****. Lewis won at an advanced age, end of story. A young blood is supposed to take out the old champ and VITLAY wasn't capable of doing that. Again, end of story.

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u cant say that cause byrd had dominated a tired vitali in the 7th and 8th round, vitali had punched himself out

 

that was great when he said that.