totally agree golota was the best heavyweight at that moment I personally consider this fight as the biggest luck of lewis carrer lewis was at the best shape ever but I heard rumors on golota's trainers who bet on lewis at that fight and make him take an injection right before the fight, just to make sure they bet was safe
Gotta agree with you there mate. In terms of name it has to Holyfield but in terms of performance it has to be Ruddock (though the Grant and Golota wins were mighty impressive).
Watching that Golota fight again, is it just me or did the ref give Golota a ridiculous amount of time after that first KD? As for Lewis's best wins the Rahman rematch for the way he closed the show, most brutal KO in a HW title fight for a long time. Also the first Holyfield fight just for the schooling he gave Evander. Shame he didn't employ the same tactics in the 2nd fight, even though he still won it obviously was closer.
I heard that the USA is actually just a big hoax, and that between Bermuda and Japan there is nothing but ocean. I also heard the world is actually not round, but a 5 dimensional shape that looks like static TV. Hey, it could be true.
Cortez has a habit of letting fights go on for ages, even after a boxer has been knocked out. He likes to give the fans their money's worth.
exactly. he dominated holyfield and for the first time in his career, evander was intimidated. considering the magnitude of the fight, the opponent, and his dominance, that has to be tops even though the judges robbed him. rofl! golota was on ***** street....it woudn't mattered if cortez gave him 10 minutes, golota was finished
by "Best" you could mean a couple different things. I would say MERCER was his best win, b/c Mercer was a top level fighter when he wanted to be. And against Lewis he clearly wanted to be. He trained hard and came in the ring in tip-top shape and gave it his all to beat Lewis. He also took an early, convincing lead causing Lewis had to work hard to squeeze out the later rounds.
So you assume that the average Hatton fan is literate? You've always been an optimist FW, always an optimist... Any ref who lets a boxer go on after they've been checked by a turnbuckle clearly believes that no finish is as good as the second finish. He could have stopped the fight there, with a picturesque ending, but NO: Cortez always believes that the next knockdown will be cooler. He's not a perfect ref by any means, but I admire his happy-go-lucky attitude to life.
Absolutely, I had that first fight 9-3, and that was being generous. Considering Lewis wasn't even the favourite in that fight as far as I can remember that was some performance. Lewis had impressive win after impressive win anyway, you could name any one of about 10 fights in this.
Not all the Hatton fans are dumb....most of them admittedly but not ALL of them. Calslappy fans are a different matter :twisted: Shame Cortez didn't referee the first Lewis/McCall fight isn't it?
Like I said, the average Hatton fan is dumb, but there are some smart ones out there. As for the Supernaturals, you have to remember that the smarter cookies amongst them have crossed the line into self-parody and say a lot of over-confident **** just for fun. Such is the luxury of a seemingly invincible boxer. Right; we might have had a boxing match rather than a "Don King makes good on his bet that McCall would win by KO" match.
I'm sure I read somewhere that Lewis saw Don King take the ref of that fight out to dinner not long after the fight. Of course if Lewis hadn't fought so ******ed it wouldn't have been an issue but that stoppage was an absolute disgrace.
I think the Oliver McCall win has to be ranked among his best wins, it was a make or break fight against the guy that just knocked him out for his first loss. That must've been a massive amoung of pressure put on him to win and to be fair he done it in style.