Vitalis top 5 wins

Fighters lie and change their minds. Several years ago Lewis said that Vitali was his best opponent, which is consistent with the fact that he gave Lewis far more problems than Holyfield did and that Lewis retired 8 months after the Vitali fight (post-Vitali's demolition of Kirk Johnson) rather than face Vitali again in a mega fight for huge money.

 

Vitalis best win?

Retiring Lemmux early.

 

I agree with Lennox Lewis that he in his life had only one belt " Duck BELT" and " Rude Lewis Belt ".

far worse than A.J or Fury.

 

This is the distinction one needs to point when comparing him to the likes of Wilder and other belt holders with weaker defenses. Thin resume? Yeah. But he totally dominant and looked great while doing so, unlike these other guys.

 

He almost beat Lewis. His poor resume doesnt matter.

 

Almost beating someone doesn't count in boxing. Especially if you get stopped in a close fight when your face falls off in round 6.

Both looked awful in that fight. Blowing hard. Static as anything. The only thing that was impressive was their punch resistance whilst they clouted each other around the head.

 

If you consider being in the top 20 or 25 heavyweight champions of all time an ATG, I would grant him that. Adamek is his best p4p win, unfortunately, I would say. I consider Adamek to have been in the top 15ish p4p fighters at the time Vitali beat him. If he had just bowled over him, it would be one thing, but I find it impressive that such a quality fighter couldn't take rounds for little while against an old giant. He couldn't really score points, and seemed to get carried. It's not the stuff of ATG wins, but Adamek, Sanders, Peter, Gomez, Johnson, Hide, the way these guys were defeated has to be valued. The consistency and control is not something a "just good" fighter could produce. For the record, I found Mercer was a tougher fight, and arguably beat Lennox. A man who gets his face ripped off and stopped in round six, vs a distance dog fight that arguably wins is a clear choice, to me.

 

Lol, you ****ing hate both klits mate

 

Didn't he come back from injury after 4 or 5 years out and box the head off peter for the wbc title?

Not the greatest resume, but the guy hardly lost rounds, never mind fights

He was definitely the better of the brothers, maybe not technically, but he would win a fight

Wlad for sure had the resume

 

Let's be honest, Lennox isn't very good either. I mean, he pretends he was fat because at 6'5, he gained six pounds in his late thirties or something? And because of that...he can't beat a guy Chris Byrd KO'd? What? And if that loss is VItali's best win...God only know how he should and shouldn't be rated.

 

Lewis is most overrated boxer world ever had and was not better than Haye with 0 doubts.
Overrated bully who rematched lads who had sparked him out and Lewis had been stopped by am boxer with am gloves.
Lewis boxing technique never was even a little bit close to Fury and A.J level, relatively crude bully and nothing more.
Rude and selfish duck belt HW division nonsense champion and never was any bare thing more.

 

Lewis resume is very poor.
Old Mike and Holyfield.

Everyone with a bit brains does knows that boxers like Mike, Holyfield, Haye, Holmes etc if they had Lewis size had sparked this nobody out cold and most likely Bellew if was in Lewis size too, Lewis always was mediocrity in weak era and rematched lads who had stopped mediocre bully Lewis.

 

Yeah. Can’t imagine Vitali going life and death with the likes of Spzlika, Duhapas or Molina.