Prime Vitali went toe-to-toe with OLD Lennox and got his a@$# kicked

[imp]

Lets talk about the amount of punishment lewis took in the fight.

Vitali was SEVEN years younger than lewis but was very unfortunate to not be able to take the punches as well as lewis did.

Luck does not exist in fighting or in life.

Both warriors fought a great fight with vitali looking the fitter of the two but the fight had to be stopped.

[Max Power]

Do you believe that Vitali has a "thin skin"? I find it difficult to buy the notion that were they to rematch, Vitali would be opened up again.

I'm not saying Vitali would beat Lewis, I think it would've been a very violent and very even fight.

I guess the main points we're not agreeing on is that I feel it was not the straight out force of Lewis's punches that opened Vitali up I feel it was the sharp edge of his gloves that tore his flesh from all the thumbs and side fists involved in their flurries and I believe there was an accidental elbow and head clash. I am not alone in this view as you would know.

Again I'm not claiming it's illegitimate, I even hold Lennox Lewis higher than Vitali in my rankings anyway. I just think Lewis was damn lucky.

The thing is Lewis did not fight his usual lacadasical style when he underestimated his opponent like the 1st Rahman fight, he fought furiously, I don't think he underestimated Vitali as much as people like to say. This was a pretty good version of Lewis that Vitali fought really.

[Silkeyjoe]

Lets talk about the amount of punishment lewis took in the fight.

Vitali was SEVEN years younger than lewis but was very unfortunate to not be able to take the punches as well as lewis did.

Luck does not exist in fighting or in life.

Both warriors fought a great fight with vitali looking the fitter of the two but the fight had to be stopped.

THere is luck in boxing, well i prefer to call it unluck when it comes to cuts. Vitalis punches could have just as easily caused a cut on Lewis and in a fight like this one if they were to go at it the way they did it would be likely the cuts would even themself out.