the "real"greatest Heavyweight!

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

Alot of people love to bring up vitali achievements against an old fat lennox lewis and still lost!

Let me just destroy you...

36 yo Lennox Lewis, 5 lbs overweight on a SHW frame, who was 6 months removed from his greatest win. He was training for a superHW, Kirki Johnson, whose huge frame and hugtactics often smothered his opponents.

11 days b4 the fight with Johnson, Vitali was called to take the fight. Lewis saw Vitali as a tall, robotic, THIN, fighter whom he could push around the ring with ease, and decided NOT to drop the 5 extra lbs.

Lewis' cornrows, combined with his thumbing and his lace scraping opened up several vaginas on Vitali's face that night. While Vitali was dominating Lewis in the fight, Lennox, knew to focus on those vaginas and he could narrowly escape with his title.

He was not OLD. He was not shot. He was NOT faded. He was NOT fat. He was 36/37, and coming off his finest performance. Some would call that prime. Nobody, except the minority K2 fans, expected Lewis to have ANY trouble with Vitali.

H2H, and AT, Vitali=/<Lewis

Sadly, Lewis chose to leave boxing at 37 with his tail between his legs, but while he was fighting he fought the best, and only ducked 1 fighter, Corrie Sanders. Sadly Vitali quit vs Byrd when he could have single handedly earned a UD. Even sadder, his doctors misdiagnosed his L5/S1 protrusion causing his sciatica, and mistakenly called it a hamstring injury, causing 2 delays of his Rahman fight, and eventual retirement.

Time went on and the division was fine w/o him. Wlad regained his confidence and beat all comers, while Vitali entered the political arena. After 4 years absent from fighting, Vitali came back into the ring to destroy 250lb WBC champ sam peter, and has barely lost a round since!

We are witnessing history being made. Sit back and enjoy, because in 100 yrs our great great chandchildren will be talking about the brothers Klitschko and how boxing will never see such domination again.

Futhermore, Lewis literally threw himself backward onto his stool, looking an almost spent fighter, it seemed poised for a 7th round of enormous significance, and then, suddenly, it was over, as the doctor ruled Vitali unfit to continue. There was some confusion for a time as to whom the winner was, the referee had held Lewis' arm up, but there appeared to be some debate as to whether the initial cut, which had ultimately resulted in the stoppage were caused by a butt, or a punch.

Had the cut been ruled the result of a butt, the fight would have gone to the scorecards, and Vitali, who was two points ahead on all 3 cards, would have been the new lineal heavyweight champion of the world. As it was, it was deemed to have been the result of a punch, and Lewis retained his title.

To clear up any possible controversy, it was to my mind a perfectly reasonable and necessary stoppage because it could have interfered with his career and vitali went onto become a great champion. Let me also add that lewis at the time was looking at fighting for another 2 years at least just before the klitschko fight (I have the extract if you want it? He was believe it or not chasing a potential fight with roy jones!) The WBC then put lewis on the spot and announced that it will strip him of the belt if he lets pass a March 15 deadline to sign for a rematch with Klitschko, the mandatory contender. He chose to reire. Owned. Lewis also relinquished his IBF belt rather than fight SOUTHPAW (lewis never fought southpaws) chris byrd too...a natural fight to make around the early 00's! Lenny was a clever man.....He probably capitalised on bowes implosion, waited for holy/tyson to age and ran out of the klitschko era quicker than an ostrich!!