Lewis vs Rahman I & II

[armyash]

I always liked LL too. I remember when I first got in to boxing in a big way and I was doing my paper round and reading all the sports pages after the first Holyfield fight. We never had sky or internet and stuff back then so had to wait to see the papers.

He doesn't get the credit he deserves now because the people judging him are still the people who may not have liked him just because they were Holyfiield/Tyson fans etc. In many years to come he will be considered a legend especially when the people see the names on his record.

One thing I'd like to say is that I would have liked to see a rematch with Vitali before retirement. People say that Lewis was unfit, overweight. Yes he was but he had been training for a fight (Johnson?) Klitschko took the fight at short notice, so he would not have been in tip top condition or as mentally prepared as he could have been. I always thought that was Lewis's plan. However funny that might sound but a lot of people had been calling for them to meet and I think Lewis intended to offer the fight to Klitschko after paying Johnson to pull out thus catching Klitschko not at his best.

Whatever. Lewis faced just about everyone he could and that KO of Rahman was pure class, the only thing that takes the shine off it is that he should have done it first time round.

Vitali was fighting Cedric Boswell on the undercard that night. He was fully prepared to fight.

If either had an advantage it was Vitali. As underdog, challenger and with a reputation as a "quitter" he had NOTHING to lose. Whereas Lewis hadn't fought in a year, had been contemplating retirement and basically fought to save the bill.

Can't argue with that.