Could Lewis K.O Vitaly When They Fought?

[mECHsLAVE]

Anyone who thinks Vitali was going to fall apart down the stretch forgot to watch his other fights. LOL He was dead tired from exhaustion around round 3 against Sanders. Around round 4 against Williams. Vitali starts breathing hard and he has no problem fighting slightly fatigued and pacing himself. He was never wobbled AT ALL against Lewis. Sure he absorbed the impact of hard punches but was never once hurt. Lewis was hurt badly twice. And Lewis was breathing every bit as hard as Vitali. Lennox would've had to win 5 of the last 6 to win the fight, or KO Vitali. Neither seemed very likely to me. Sorry. Vitali would've won if not for the freak cut by the side of the glove tearing his eye on a punch that pretty much missed. Lennox obviously agreed- LOL. $20M for a rematch? "No thanks! I'm retiring! Whew! Close one!" Hehe.

[GasPed]

It's a real shame we'll never know. We can all argue for 20 more years, but the truth is, we'll just never know.

Like last week, and the week before, and the 100 weeks before that, I still think Lewis was on his way to a KO, but again, we'll never know.

One thing that people fail to mention is that after Lewis supposedly "collapses" on his seat in exhaustion at the end, Manny Steward starts working on him, and says "This is your fight now, baby.", to which Lewis calmly replies "Yeah, I got it." Hardly the conversation of a fighter who's completely dead from fatigue, or of a corner who's desperate because they know they're behind and in trouble....

[!! Mr. Soprano]

all I can say, just watch the last round and be your own judge..

no one can influence an other's opinion on this.

[MrFactor]

Clearly Vit was the busier. However, Lennox landed the much more meaningful shots. Whenevr Lennox would land on Vit, Vit would retreat. Then the HUGE uppercut more than wobbled Vit. He was OUT ON HIS FEET and fell forward. Lennox just didn't have enough gas in the tank to finish it then. i think if it went on, Vit would have been KO'd.