Vitali Klitschko won every single fight but 1 (ONE) by knockout. Great percentage.

If scoring knockouts in all but one of your wins actually means something, then I suppose we must consider Herbie Hide to be a great heavyweight as well.

 

Whatever. I remember Gene Fullmer fighting several rounds with a broken arm against Florentino Fernandez and getting a split decision. Vitali chose to quit. There is no way that can be spun into proving he was better than his opponent. He lost.

 

He lost and did not finish the fight. There is no way that proves he could outdo Byrd. He lost. I have seen the fight, by the way.

 

Kinda like Bowe/Golota 1 & 2. Golota was out-boxing Bowe, but Golota lost twice so I guess that's all that matters. We'll ignore that Golota was handed a title-shot next.

 

He lost but he still outdid Byrd.

Check the scorecards at the time he retired. Vitaly was up 8 rounds to 1 and 7 rounds to 2 twice.

 

Sorry.

That is not rational.

 

Even so, he wasn't Lineal.

 

my definition of injurys is alittle different from yours

to me injury=excuse

 

Actually its not rational to think that simply because he retired due to injury, anything that happened prior to that during the fight is meaningless.

 

Who said it was?

It meant that he won rounds.

But the object in boxing is to beat the opponent within the rules.

 

I don't think the situation is exactly the same. Golata finished this fight on his feet with Bowe on the canvas. The referee DQ'd Golota but Bowe had taken such a beating he hardly fought again.

Vitali chose to quit after nine rounds of a twelve round fight. He was ahead on points but a whole slew of fighters have been ahead on points and lost a fight. The bottom line is Vitali did not win and should not be given credit for accomplishing something he did not accomplish.
He lost to Byrd.

 

I agree with this which is why I posted. Many people call Vitali a lineal champion. He won because he beat another contender, Sanders. It is not clear to me that either deserved to be considered clearly the top contenders. Byrd held wins over Vitali, Holyfield, and Tua. I think he was the top contender.

 

that is the object indeed. And Vitaly showed that though he was not able to do it on that night, he is definately capable of doing it.

 

Definitely not exactly the same, but similar. Both losers were on the verge of winning. Both can be given credit depite the outcome. If either of them were knocked out in a fight they were winning, that would be a different story.

 

Perhaps and perhaps not, but being capable of doing something means nothing unless you do it.

Is a man a great writer if he is capable of writing a great novel but never actually sits down and does it?