Lennox Lewis-Vitali Klitschko

[El Kabong]

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!


Let's just all face the facts. Lennox Lewis won on a stoppage due to a cut which in all honesty was a freak accident, if Lennox tried to cut Vitali that bad again on purpose he might do it 1 time in 1,000 chances.

Lennox Lewis was preparing to fight Kirk Johnson, Vitali Klitschko was preparing to fight Cedric Boswell...so nobody was at an advantage there.

Lennox Lewis was a great champion and Vitali Klitschko gave him all he could handle....there were no knockdowns, there were no 10-8 rounds, it was a fairly even fight with Vitali up 58-56 on all cards.


Put your fanhood aside and just admit it was a GREAT fight that happened on regular HBO because the planets aligned in just the right manner and the boxing Gods gave us this fight as a gift.....enjoy it, don't dismiss this fight as "Lennox was lazy and fat and unprepared" or only "If Vitali didn't get cut he would have won"....Champions fight and they win no matter where, when, or what the circumstances are.

[Galaxy]

It was a great fight& much better than Lewis/ Johnson would have been. I've always felt that Vitali was lucky it ended the way it did. Cut or no cut I think Lewis would have stopped him in the next few rounds!!!

[Gandalf]

It was a great fight and thats the only real conclusion we can make from it. Lewis won but it was inconclusive. Vitali was up on the cards, and Lewis busted up Vitalis face badly. For anyone to decide what might have been is just speculation. Lewis had just had his best round but seemed winded. Vitali was up but bleeding and lost that preceding round.

It was a great fight. Leave it for what it was.

[DaxxKahn]

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!


Let's just all face the facts. Lennox Lewis won on a stoppage due to a cut which in all honesty was a freak accident, if Lennox tried to cut Vitali that bad again on purpose he might do it 1 time in 1,000 chances.

Lennox Lewis was preparing to fight Kirk Johnson, Vitali Klitschko was preparing to fight Cedric Boswell...so nobody was at an advantage there.

Lennox Lewis was a great champion and Vitali Klitschko gave him all he could handle....there were no knockdowns, there were no 10-8 rounds, it was a fairly even fight with Vitali up 58-56 on all cards.


Put your fanhood aside and just admit it was a GREAT fight that happened on regular HBO because the planets aligned in just the right manner and the boxing Gods gave us this fight as a gift.....enjoy it, don't dismiss this fight as "Lennox was lazy and fat and unprepared" or only "If Vitali didn't get cut he would have won"....Champions fight and they win no matter where, when, or what the circumstances are.

Ha Ha Ha...Good Stuff Lyle....

In truth you are right...Vitaly gave Lennox all he could handle, The nfight was close (2rds at the 6th is in no way a large margin)....Vitaly took the early rounds...Lennox won the last few before the stoppage.....If not for the cut we have no idea how it would have ended...both were tired...both were huffing and puffing throwing one arm punches....

The cut though was not a freak accident....Freak occurance it opened so wide I will agree to that but not the cut itself...Though Lennox was targeting the cut like he was skeet shooting

[DaxxKahn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGrEJ0B40Ik

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[smashup]

Was a great fight that

[GAME]

I think the Lewis fans have left it alone but are constantly provoked by Vitali fans who cant accept their man got beat fair and square .

[ICB]

Was a great fight that

The word great gets thrown about a bit too much IMO, it was nowhere near a great fight. It was one of the best Heavyweights in the last 8 years or so, but thats because the division has sucked, not because Vitali Klitschko vs Lennox Lewis was a great fight.

Im not picking you up on it mate i just keep hearing people calling this a great fight, but it was without much skill. And the action itself wasn't consistent, its nowhere near as good as fights like Bert Cooper vs Michael Moorer, Evander Holyfield vs Riddick Bowe 1 etc.

[Fenster]

Was a great fight that

The word great gets thrown about a bit too much IMO, it was nowhere near a great fight. It was one of the best Heavyweights in the last 8 years or so, but thats because the division has sucked, not because Vitali Klitschko vs Lennox Lewis was a great fight.

Im not picking you up on it mate i just keep hearing people calling this a great fight, but it was without much skill. And the action itself wasn't consistent, its nowhere near as good as fights like Bert Cooper vs Michael Moorer, Evander Holyfield vs Riddick Bowe 1 etc.

Whether someone finds a fight great or not is a personal thing.. you don't need majority recognition

[Fenster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGrEJ0B40Ik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Dtu...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFrHr...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqasS...eature=related

Nice one.. haven't seen that fight in a couple of years.

Lennox won fair and square of course.. but I also doubt Vitali would have lasted much longer had the fight gone on

[intoccabile]

most entertaining heavyweight fight i've seen in a long long time.
That second round is beautiful. Great fight.

Vitali looks like he's ready to go, but he looked that way for some time.
From the third on up I felt as though he was working much harder than lewis and
lewis was ultimately going to have more energy going late. After the 6th, it looked like
they were even again and I'm willing to gamble that Vitali was hungrier and would have
been willing to dig deeper, but we'll never know.

Great showing by Lewis in retaining his strap, great fight. I miss fights like these.

[ICB]

most entertaining heavyweight fight i've seen in a long long time.
That second round is beautiful. Great fight.

Vitali looks like he's ready to go, but he looked that way for some time.
From the third on up I felt as though he was working much harder than lewis and
lewis was ultimately going to have more energy going late. After the 6th, it looked like
they were even again and I'm willing to gamble that Vitali was hungrier and would have
been willing to dig deeper, but we'll never know.

Great showing by Lewis in retaining his strap, great fight. I miss fights like these.

Serguei Lyakhovich vs Lamon Brewster was just as good as Lennox Lewis vs Vitali Klitschko, maybe even better.

[LondonBB]

Good post lyle, if i knew how to give reps then i would mate.

[WelshDevilRob]

The prime Vitali already fought the 38 year old version of Lennox and lost. So it is Impossible for Vitali to beat a Prime Lennox Lewis. That is commonsense and the right answer

[awdleyfuturehalloffamer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGrEJ0B40Ik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Dtu...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFrHr...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqasS...eature=related

Nice one.. haven't seen that fight in a couple of years.

Lennox won fair and square of course.. but I also doubt Vitali would have lasted much longer had the fight gone on

How in the hell did he last that long with being blind in one eye. Fact is lewis would have had his ass kicked every round if the cut didn't happen. the only reason lewis got back into the fight even a little bit was because vitali was blind in one eye for at least 3 rounds.