Lennox may not have sparked him clean out, but definitely it was looking like what it would have happened- a STOPPAGE, either by Vitali's corner due to those cuts OR Vitali wouldn't have answered the bell in the later rounds. Basically, quit on his stool.

The punishment he was taking after the cut- which he couldn't see the punches coming anymore, at all- was enough to show me that Lennox was the better man that night.

For a fat, out of shape Lennox to come in against a guy that was preparing for him for, at least, two years, and then for that guy to get a shot on a replacement situation, where Lennox barely had him on his radar, was proof to how a bad-ass mofo Lennox was and could be once his back was against the wall.

Shame Lennox needed two fights to dispatch Hasim Rahman. But, Rahman is a more stiffer puncher and finisher.