Vitali's 1st career: KICKboxing!!??

[brocktonblockbust]

vitali is a great athlete---have to admire him for sure. great athlete great condition and fast and strong. cannot ask for more than that......

still rank him #17 or so All-Time Great

[erics44]

ive always wanted to see the pele reid KO

now i have seen it its a a dissapointment, i wish i never had

[Fenster]

Finally after all these years.

The Pele Reid KO'd Vitali wind-up was one of my favs

@Lyle - that wasn't no "leg kick" (), he got his chin well and truly cracked

[Beanflicker]

I don't care how big, strong and tough you are. You're not going to take a flush spinning kick to the chin and stay conscious.

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

LOL. So what? Maskaev stopped VK in the amateurs! Kickboxing is not even the same sport, so who cares? Michael Jordan didn't look so hot as a baseball player either, but it doesn't affect his legacy as a basketballer.

Wake me when you find footage of someone knocking VK out in a boxing ring, something that happened many moons ago in a kickboxing competition is not relevant.

Someone post the fight where Orlin Norris kayoed Pele Reid in 1 round. That has relevance on here.

The hatred on SB for K2 is astounding and quite pitiful really. I could understand it if they were just 'a flash in the pan' but it's been a decade of dominance now. Haters are getting old.

[Beanflicker]

I think it speaks even more highly of Vitali to make the transition from kickboxing to boxing and reach such a high level. Kickboxers obviously don't have near the punching skill that a boxer does, and they are used to fighting at a different range than boxers (kicking range rather than punching range). In kickboxing you also get used to keeping guys away with front kicks, so in order to become the champ he was, Vitali had to un-learn a TON of kickboxing habits. I'm surprised over the years he never kicked someone just on instinct in a boxing match.

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

I think it speaks even more highly of Vitali to make the transition from kickboxing to boxing and reach such a high level. Kickboxers obviously don't have near the punching skill that a boxer does, and they are used to fighting at a different range than boxers (kicking range rather than punching range). In kickboxing you also get used to keeping guys away with front kicks, so in order to become the champ he was, Vitali had to un-learn a TON of kickboxing habits. I'm surprised over the years he never kicked someone just on instinct in a boxing match.

Do u know who lyle is? He keeps calling me lyle. Im confused...

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

Finally after all these years.

The Pele Reid KO'd Vitali wind-up was one of my favs

@Lyle - that wasn't no "leg kick" (), he got his chin well and truly cracked

Who's lyle?