Did Vitali Klitschko fight a PRIME Lennox Lewis?

There's a debate raging in the 'Fantasy Fights' section of the forum. He's a flavour: VK vs LL was virtually prime for prime. The fight was nearly prime for prime, Vitali was not even yet prime but Lennox surely was. Lennox carrying 10 lbs or so overweight is a BS excuse Lennox defenders keep bringing up. It is worth mentioning that in early June 2003 - before Vitali was drafted in to replace Kirk Johnson - Lennox, in response to questions from British reporters, said: "I have been having thoughts about retirement” . “A lot of different things happened to me in my year out of the ring. Most definitely I’ve been thinking about retiring on a last big super-fight — it could be Vitali Klitschko or Roy Jones.” Simple question for NSB: Did Vitali Klitschko fight a PRIME Lennox Lewis?