Vitali's career defining fight

It's true. His BIG sucess is winning a few rounds in a fight he ultimatley lost. Kind of funny.

 

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i would say kirk was his defining fight . blowing out a serious contender in that short a time.

but it think your all ritgh he looked the best when he lost to lennox lewis

 

Make what argument?

 

His manhandling of Kirk Johson was probably his most impressive win, in my opinion.

Johnson was overweight, yes, but he was blown out so fast that the weight didn't really matter that much. It may have hindered his balance a bit, but the fight certainly didn't go long enough for stamina to come into play................

Noone had ever handled Johnson so easily, as Vital did. Blew him out of the water in 1.5 rounds.

 

His most memorable fight was Lewis, but that isn't an indictment of his career. It's just what people think of first.

Similarly, most casual fans would reel off either the Holyfield II or Buster fights as Tyson's most memorable.

 

Depends on how you judge him. Was his accomplishments great? Depends on your idea of great. He was considered THE Champion, and was the Ring Magazine Champion. He had dominant victories over Hide, Donald, Williams, Johnson, Bean, Hoffman (undefeated contender at the time), Norris (1st round knockout), and Sanders. Not exactly a slew of amazing fighters, but good fighters, and most of them were highly ranked at the time.

He did lose to Byrd and Lewis, but both by way that had a majority of people believing that he was the better man in the ring during those fights. He was beating Byrd extremely dominant fashion until he couldn't continue any longer with his shoulder injury, and was leading 4-2 on the scorecards against Lewis before the doctor stopped the fight on a cut... even though Vitali was still winning the fight. So, neither of those loses proved that the other man was better than him. The time that they were actually fighting in the ring, Vitali was winning both fights.

So, if you consider having very dominant knockout performances against a few top contenders, and becoming the Ring Magazine, and recognized Heavyweight Champion of the world as being great... then I guess you could say he is. If you think that he would have to stick around and successfully defend that throne... then you probably think that he was a very capable fighter who didn't do enough to be considered great. I would say that he had all the ability to accomplish great things, and was a great fighter when he actually fought... but his career was cut down by injuries in both his losses, and his retirement. So, I would say that he was a great fighter in the ring, but never accomplished enough to be considered a great fighter among the ATG's. Of course, that can all change if he comes back.

 

Can't a motha ****a gets some credit for beating Ed Mahone up in this *****?

 

I think I've read this exact post in about 30 other threads. why not just tack onto one of them?

 

Widdow, that was hilarious.