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

no byrd was turning the fight round vitali was missing more and more until byrd ducked every vitali right hand making vitali throw further and further to try and it him...and he went to far and popped his shoulder....lucky on byrds part but it wasnt likehe was going to win but byrd did deserve it in the end.

 

wait montell griffin wasnt losing watch it roy jones looked awful missing all those shots

 

The weird thing about Vitali is, despite his high stoppage percentage, he wasn't a big puncher. He didn't throw many combinations, and he lacked one-punch power against all but the weakest chins (like Hide).

What he did have was a high workrate for such a big man (in an age of heavyweight sloths) and a limited but very accurate offense. Against Sanders, it was really an exhaustion stoppage (Corrie was too tired to protect himself). In fact, the Sanders fight demonstrates my point: against a boxer with a highly suspect chin, Vitali failed to KO or even knock down his opponent. However, his relentlessness and workrate left Sanders too tired and cut up to go on.

I've deliberately avoided talking about opposition, as that has already been discussed to its limits in this thread. The fact is, Vitali was a busy and lanky boxer who kept the pressure on his opponents without much thought of taking the easy route to a decision. I hated his ugly style, but it WAS effective in facing the opponents he faced up until Lewis (and afterwards).

 

So to sum up, if the era hadn't been so **** then VITLAY would never have been heard of :deal

 

Have you ever seen Chris Byrd fight before, EVER? That is his tactic in EVERY fight. He doesn't plan on winning by injury, only a moron would assume that's what I was saying. But he uses those tactics to avoid the shots make his opponent reluctant to throw those punches.

Of course he didn't plan for the Vitali to tear his shoulder, but Vitali's fragile body led to those tactics being more effective than even Byrd would have thought.


I am asking you to prove to me that it is far-fetched to say that Vitali's ****-poor connect percentage directly led to the injury. You still haven't managed that.

 

He'd be at least a fringe contender in any era post 1920.

 

Didn't McCline or another of Byrd's opponents for his worthless illegitimate anti-boxing non-credible non-linear non-important **** corrupt "title" injure his shoulder?

 

Yeah, fringe contender is about right.

I'd never deny something as sensible as that, but it's the 'VITLAY and WALD would beat prime Ali/Holmes/Tyson because they are tall' that I fight against....sure you understand.

 

I quite understand. But remember the wise words of Ronnie James Dio- "If you listen to fools, the mob rules."

 

Oh I don't listen to them, but I've got no problem with mocking them :hey

 

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Right on mate.

 

VITLAY made Lewis look ordinary for 2 rounds.....maybe but we're talking about a way past it and ring rusty Lewis here. Once Lewis overcame the rust then you could see with your own eyes what happened :deal

Do I need to post the pics of VITLAYS face after the fight again to show who looked 'ordinary' after the fact???

 

Nice one. See my post before this for a perfect example

 

A fine one indeed. Lewis-Vitali was essentially a six round exposure of Vitali's style: a predictable offense and a leaky defense. Against an ATG, that's just not going to cut it. Imagine what a prime Tyson or prime Louis would have done with that Lewis, who worse than the Lewis that lost to Rahman.

 

Precisely the point that gets lost on the VITLAY lovers, who claim that Lewis was at his very best in that fight

VITLAY, much like WALD, has been found wanting at the highest level, and every reasonable boxing fan sees it.