TBF neither fighter was the same after that fight, that was the best Tua ever. Still I thought Tua won, and so do many others.
Yeah there were always many who felt that way, but I was a pretty big Tua fan in the day and remember there always being plenty like me that were fine with the result or could've lived with a draw - which I think was the most common fan scorecard, actually. :conf
Vitali was stiff ,robotic he couldn't box. Curtis would have had Ike boxing Vitali . Ike could do it all Box & FIGHT!! thanks to one of the most under rated trainers in the business. He'd have had a game plan ready for Vitali I remember I was ridiculed on boxing forums for predicting Ike would beat Tua. No one had heard of him. After the fight it was Where have they Been hiding him?? & He's great Really its Curtis Cokes I feel sorry for he had two fighters capable of winning a HW title both failed for different reasons. Ike's incarceration & the blatant con job John Ruiz & Joe Cortez pulled to rob Kirk Johnson from winning the WBA title
I know lol. That's why I started the thread and two pages in, I'm just as lacking in information as I was when I started it. atsch