Your thoughts on Lennox Lewis-Vitali Klitschko?

[Hornfinger]

Lennox and vitali. This fight is simple.

Should the fight have been stopped? Yes. Look at the state of vitali's face. It wasn't one cut, it was multiple cuts.

Lennox was tired, Vitali was winning blah blah blah ALL COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT.

Lewis beat Klitscho fair and sqare and caused enough damage to prevent his opponant continuing that is the bottom line. There have been loads of fights through history where the guy who was ahead on points got knocked out or stopped. This was no different.

[BIG H]

Lennox and vitali. This fight is simple.

Should the fight have been stopped? Yes. Look at the state of vitali's face. It wasn't one cut, it was multiple cuts.

Lennox was tired, Vitali was winning blah blah blah ALL COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT.

Lewis beat Klitscho fair and sqare and caused enough damage to prevent his opponant continuing that is the bottom line. There have been loads of fights through history where the guy who was ahead on points got knocked out or stopped. This was no different.

Exactly right

[ICB]

Lennox and vitali. This fight is simple.

Should the fight have been stopped? Yes. Look at the state of vitali's face. It wasn't one cut, it was multiple cuts.

Lennox was tired, Vitali was winning blah blah blah ALL COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT.

Lewis beat Klitscho fair and sqare and caused enough damage to prevent his opponant continuing that is the bottom line. There have been loads of fights through history where the guy who was ahead on points got knocked out or stopped. This was no different.

There still should of been a rematch though, im not really a fan of either fighter. But Lennox Lewis promised Vitali Klitschko a rematch and never gave him one.

IMO the Lennox Lewis fans use the excuse, that Lennox Lewis was old and ETC. Which i think is nonsense Lennox Lewis actually got better with age, and was coming off a great performance vs Mike Tyson.

If Lennox Lewis was so out of shape and ETC, then in his mind if he trained properly he should of beat Vitali Klitschko right ? IMO i don't think Lennox Lewis fancied his chances vs Vitali Klitschko.

Vitali Klitschko has a great chin, he took Lennox Lewis's best punches. Which only a few fighters have ever done, and the punch that caused the cut. Was a grazing shot and it was a freak accident. And quite lucky on Lennox Lewis's part.

Yes Lennox Lewis was coming on but he looked gased, from that final assault in the 6th round. And really and truthfully there should of been rematch, the fans wanted to see it. And it would of been a huge event between the two best Heavyweights.

But sadly Lennox Lewis retired, and we missed out on what possibly could of been the best Heavyweight fight of the decade.

Lastly not to go too far off topic but i think Ray Mercer, deserved a rematch vs Lennox Lewis aswell.

[BIG H]

Lennox and vitali. This fight is simple.

Should the fight have been stopped? Yes. Look at the state of vitali's face. It wasn't one cut, it was multiple cuts.

Lennox was tired, Vitali was winning blah blah blah ALL COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT.

Lewis beat Klitscho fair and sqare and caused enough damage to prevent his opponant continuing that is the bottom line. There have been loads of fights through history where the guy who was ahead on points got knocked out or stopped. This was no different.

There still should of been a rematch though, im not really a fan of either fighter. But Lennox Lewis promised Vitali Klitschko a rematch and never gave him one.

IMO the Lennox Lewis fans use the excuse, that Lennox Lewis was old and ETC. Which i think is nonsense Lennox Lewis actually got better with age, and was coming off a great performance vs Mike Tyson.

If Lennox Lewis was so out of shape and ETC, then in his mind if he trained properly he should of beat Vitali Klitschko right ? IMO i don't think Lennox Lewis fancied his chances vs Vitali Klitschko.

Vitali Klitschko has a great chin, he took Lennox Lewis's best punches. Which only a few fighters have ever done, and the punch that caused the cut. Was a grazing shot and it was a freak accident. And quite lucky on Lennox Lewis's part.

Yes Lennox Lewis was coming on but he looked gased, from that final assault in the 6th round. And really and truthfully there should of been rematch, the fans wanted to see it. And it would of been a huge event between the two best Heavyweights.

But sadly Lennox Lewis retired, and we missed out on what possibly could of been the best Heavyweight fight of the decade.

Lastly not to go too far off topic but i think Ray Mercer, deserved a rematch vs Lennox Lewis aswell.

In an ideal world, but Mercer had nothing to offer Lewis, except for another vey tough fight. It was an interesting fight for Lewis to take at that stage, but I had him winning 96-94.

[ICB]

Lennox and vitali. This fight is simple.

Should the fight have been stopped? Yes. Look at the state of vitali's face. It wasn't one cut, it was multiple cuts.

Lennox was tired, Vitali was winning blah blah blah ALL COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT.

Lewis beat Klitscho fair and sqare and caused enough damage to prevent his opponant continuing that is the bottom line. There have been loads of fights through history where the guy who was ahead on points got knocked out or stopped. This was no different.

There still should of been a rematch though, im not really a fan of either fighter. But Lennox Lewis promised Vitali Klitschko a rematch and never gave him one.

IMO the Lennox Lewis fans use the excuse, that Lennox Lewis was old and ETC. Which i think is nonsense Lennox Lewis actually got better with age, and was coming off a great performance vs Mike Tyson.

If Lennox Lewis was so out of shape and ETC, then in his mind if he trained properly he should of beat Vitali Klitschko right ? IMO i don't think Lennox Lewis fancied his chances vs Vitali Klitschko.

Vitali Klitschko has a great chin, he took Lennox Lewis's best punches. Which only a few fighters have ever done, and the punch that caused the cut. Was a grazing shot and it was a freak accident. And quite lucky on Lennox Lewis's part.

Yes Lennox Lewis was coming on but he looked gased, from that final assault in the 6th round. And really and truthfully there should of been rematch, the fans wanted to see it. And it would of been a huge event between the two best Heavyweights.

But sadly Lennox Lewis retired, and we missed out on what possibly could of been the best Heavyweight fight of the decade.

Lastly not to go too far off topic but i think Ray Mercer, deserved a rematch vs Lennox Lewis aswell.

In an ideal world, but Mercer had nothing to offer Lewis, except for another vey tough fight. It was an interesting fight for Lewis to take at that stage, but I had him winning 96-94.

Yea i can understand why he didn't take it. Im not really faulting him for that, considering he was trying to get a fight with Mike Tyson at the time. And Ray Mercer was a very hot and cold fighter.

But i still would of liked to have seen it, and maybe over 12 rounds instead of 10 rounds. Because it was such a good fight, and so evenly contested. That its the kind of fight that needed those few extra rounds, to tell us who the real winner was.

[Master]

If Lennox did give Vitali the re-match and won I think it would have severely halted Vitali's career.

[Hornfinger]

I think Lennox would have won a rematch. He'd have had to train hard and knuckle down but I stil think he'd have beat him again.

[El Kabong]

...no one thinks Vitali could have mapped out a game plan when he got time to actually train to fight Lennox Lewis and not Cedric Boswell?

One of the problems I have with this debate is that it's so one sided on the part of Lennox Lewis: Lennox wasn't in shape, Lennox didn't have time to prepare, Lennox was old, blah blah blah....that match was thrown together at the last minute and it's not as if Vitali had been training for Lewis all along and was 100% prepared to fight him. All the excuses made for why Lennox had trouble with him are wiped out with the simple idea that "If you're the Champion then you prepare your best to defend your title regardless of who you're fighting"

Also none of the Lewis supporters even admit that Vitali was doing well much less WINNING ROUNDS they just point to the TKO 6 and jump up and down about how anyone would even question the fight.