What is Vitlai Klitschko’s most impressive boxing stastics?

None of them are very impressive when observed in the correct context.

He gave Lennox Lewis a very hard fight. That's the most impressive thing about Vitali Klitschko.

 

That he gave Lewis a good fight. The other statistics you have given are just that, statistics. He had a great KO ratio, but against bums mostly.

 

A step further.

He was beating Lewis 4 rounds to 2 on all score cards when the fight was stopped on a cut. Much more than a hard fight, Vitali was beating Lewis and his title effort was halted by a cut. Having a cut doesn't make you the lesser boxer... especially when caused by nothing more than a grazing punch that barely landed.

Which makes his outting against Lewis even that more impressive. He was beating Lewis for most of the fight with a badly damaged eye.

 

yeah but lewis was old and not in the best shape. he never fought again.

 

Lewis never fighting again just shows that he realized the situation. The WBC had ordered Lewis to fight Vitali again. Lewis didn't like his chances, so he retired. He sat on the title for 8 months after that, talking about fighting Tyson, Roy Jones, or Vitali after he made Vitali jump through hoop after hoop, hoping that he would fail.

 

never to of beaten a top class opponent

 

and being knocked out doesnt make you the lesser boxer either by your logic, heck, Moorer should go around telling everyone he was beating Foreman on points and if it wasnt for the knockout lol. Thats the same ridiculousness your talking about, the cuts happened as a result of Lewis`s punches, that side of his face was in shocking condition, there was a cut below the eyebrow, a cut on the eyelid, a cut under the eye, multiple cuts in his mouth and lips. He was hit by hard punches, he may not of been knocked out but he was in no state to continue as a result of those punches.

Lewis was a couple of month soff 38, Vitali was 31. For all you who bang on about Lewis beating past prime Holyfield etc you ought to give him credit for winning when older than Holyfield was against him and against a younger fighte rthan he was against Holyfield!

 

While Vitali was up, he was going to lose, and badly.

Lewis had just won the last couple of rounds and was beginning to take control and land cleanly. He would have won every round after that although I suspect Lewis would have stopped him.

Dont build up Vitali's performance just because he had a couple of decent rounds.

 

I love it when you guys try to use this logic. Then try to distort the age of the fighters, and everything. Vitali himself was closer to turning 32 than Lewis was to turning 38. How about the fact that Vitali himself was rather GREEN coming into that fight? He hadn't been in any fight close to that magnitude before... and he was thrown in on 2 weeks notice, after having only been training for a 10 round undercard fight, that everyone knew was going to be a walk-over. Lewis on the other hand, was already training for a 12 round fight against a Top 10 opponent... and the experience that Lewis had FAR outweighed any problem with age difference. Especially considering that Vitali Klitschko's body was much more beat down and hampered with old Kickboxing injures than Lewis' body was from boxing.


Also... stop pretending like a cut and a knockout or the same thing. It's nonsense. You know how many fighter have been cut by their opponents and won the fight? How many fighters have been knocked out by their opponents and went on to win that fight? Just because the doctor chose to stop the fight, doesn't make Lewis any better than he was before the doctor chose to stop the fight. Vitali was winning even with the cut. Which is why he went ballistic after they stopped the fight. Quite a big difference between that and being knocked out.

 

Also, Lewis had started to dominate the fight so had it not been stoped, I think he would have been knocked down. To me it doesn't matter how you lose (TKO, points or thro' injury), a lose is a lose.

 

i think sanders knocked him down with a punch although the referee didnt count it as a knockdown