What was Lennox Lewis greatest KO?

The win over Vittalee was a good one, but Klitschko isn't as good as some of the others Lewis beat so bad he pretty much ended their careers. Klitschko is just a modern-day Primo Carnera without the big Italian's boxing skills.

 

Myself and the American commentators who were commentating on this fight on ESPN had Lewis winning 10 rounds to 2. Mercer hit a lot of arms and gloves with those infrequent flurries and Lewis was landing more eye catching punches. it is also forgot that Mercer was a brawler and Lewis was a rangey boxer and that fight was held in a ring the size of a shoe box

 

You also called Lewis a ***** :nut You just showed a complete lack of respect for prizefighters... anybody whon puts there life on the line and steps into a ring deserves respect... you have no respect for any fight you don't want to bum **** so I have no respect for you :hi:

 

Yes he always had great conditioning when he wasn't getting hit back by a big puncher and fighting at such a pace... for most of the 6th round Vitali was drapped all over Lewis like a drunk that needed to be carried home while Lewis was trying to push him off to let his hands go and Lewis clearly won rounds 5 and 6.

Because he took some serious consideration into the rematch with Vitali before deciding against it... he was going to do the rematch but for all the wrong reasons.

Interestingly i just read the chapter in Lewis's biography regarding the Klitschko fight again and even Lewis commented on how hard Finkel was to negotiate with

 

He also knocked out Corrie Sanders, who according to some on here is a modern day great.

 

I still don't get why 'people' regard the Vitali win as not a win. Wtf man. How many fights throughout history have been stopped on cuts? Did Ali not stop Cooper twice on cuts? Do fans say 'oh that's not a real win because Ali got floored in the first fight'. No. Why? Because it is ******ed. And has no logic, at all, behind it. If you cut up a guys face and you win as a result of it, your blows inflicted such damage that the guy could not continue. It is EXACTLY the same principal as inflicting a knock-out blow - your fists caused the guys body to give up and he can't continue. Now, what is the goddamn problem exactly?

From that list I think the Rahman victory is the most impressive and demonstrated what Lennox Lewis could do when he was game, focussed, and looking to end the fight. That Lewis delivered thunderous right hands, underrated left hooks, all behind a great, great left jab. Combine that with his physical strength and size and that Lewis is devastating. And Rahman found that out. Vitali is a great win when you consider what he has achieved since then. But the Rahman knockout was just awesome man, four rounds of domination and a one punch KO. Golota is a similar case. Just brutal. How a heavyweight champion should end fights.

 

Vitali wasn't winning the fight.

Sure he had a lead, but he was being worn down in rounds 5 and 6 and was well on his way to losing the fight by stoppage in round 7 or 8.

Klitschko's face was a mess. An utter mess.

The referee and doctor did exactly the right thing by stopping the fight, end of story.

 

Exactly :deal said it for me

Also as for the thumb causing the cut... watch the fight again. How the **** does a thumb cause a cut anyway? i've heard some ridiculous fan boy excuses for that cut but they are all bull****... my favourite one is this 'the stitching on his glove caused the cut'... how???? was the stitching made of glass cuttings? all the excuses they come up with would cause a graze not an impact cut across the bridge of the eye socket

 

Lewis started slow but, by the time of the stoppage, had taken over the fight. I can't see any other result than a Lewis win after the 6th. Vitali was being abused in there.

 

No he wasn't.

Being ahead on the scorecards means you are ahead - not necessarily winning the fight.

The cards are only relevant when the fight reaches it's conclusion at the end of 12 rounds, or 10, 8 or however long the distance is.

Vitali Klitschko was stopped as a result of a cut caused by a punch landed by Lennox Lewis.

There was no headbutt, no illegal beards or dreadlocks.

There's countless examples of fighters losing fights whilst ahead on the scorecards. This is just another.

I don't see why there's such a controversy. There was no disqualification, no bull**** stoppage, no corner retirement.

Vitali gave a great effort but was spent by the end of the 6th and needed to be saved from himself, and ultimately was.

He was in his prime and didn't need bashing around for a few more rounds when his eyesight could have been at risk.

 

funny that... i got grazed by the stitching on boxing gloves hundreds of times when i used to fight in the Ams but never got cut... also strange that you say stitching on glove, Vitali says head... in a minute Bremen will tell us Lewis did it with his dick whilst using it as a whip atsch

 

God I hate it when every Lewis thread gets high jacked by nuthuggers and it turns into another pointless Lewis/Vitali thread. **** they should just sticky a Lewis/Vitali thread, it gets debated so often.

Lewis beat Vitali and no amount of debating and bull**** will ever change that fact. As Goglikerich so expertly pointed out nobody brings up the Ali/Cooper fight and if anything that fight is way more controversial with the knockdown, the torn glove and Ali in general stuggling with Cooper only for Ali to go on and win by a legit TKO on cuts.

Lewis was behind but he looked the stronger in rounds 5 and 6 and he had Vitali holding on for dear life twice in tha last round. There were 2 very bad cuts to Vitali so even if the cut above the eye was caused by a thumb, stitching or dreadlocks the one below the eye showed that Lewis had the power to cause damage to Vitali without the help of any of those idiotic excuses.

Lewis rightly chose to retire, he no longer had the desire and unlike many past champions retired as champion. And had a rematched happened there would not have been enough time for Vitali's injuries to fully recover as when Vitali fought Sanders a cut opened at the exact same spot where Lewis opened the fight ending cut. So any rematch at that time would have probably seen Vitali having to deal with a bad cut again as if a southpaw like Sanders could cut him again, Lewis' big right hands from an orthodox stance would almost definately do so again.

Lewis TKO6, deal with it.