Lennox Lewis V.S. Vitali Klitschko

[Neuraxis]

If I'm not mistaken, Vitali won the 1st and 2nd round on all 3 of the judges scorecards, the 3rd on 1 scorecard, the 4th on 2 scorecards, the 5th 1 scorecard, and the 6th on 2 scorecards.

[splittingatoms]

well i have always been a fan of lewis.with that been said i had vit winning rounds 1-4 and LL winning rounds 5-6.lewis was landing some good shot at the end of the fight and it was getting to vit.i think another 1-2 rounds would have seen the first time would have been on the canvas.and to the guy saying that lewis was not out of shape.come on dude did you actually watch the fight.lewis has never been that out of breath in any of his previous fights.anyone can plainly see that he was not in the best shape.and if there would have been a rematch i think LL would have destroyed vit in 7 rounds.when LL fought and had a rematch with the 2 guys that KOed him (mccall and rahman)he totally devastated them.that leads me to the reason of thinking LL would take vit out in a rematch.and i think the stoppage was legit.how would yall vit lovers had liked to see yalls fighter with his eyeball hanging out and never being able to fight again.

[Leo Pradun]

well i have always been a fan of lewis.with that been said i had vit winning rounds 1-4 and LL winning rounds 5-6.lewis was landing some good shot at the end of the fight and it was getting to vit.i think another 1-2 rounds would have seen the first time would have been on the canvas.and to the guy saying that lewis was not out of shape.come on dude did you actually watch the fight.lewis has never been that out of breath in any of his previous fights.anyone can plainly see that he was not in the best shape.and if there would have been a rematch i think LL would have destroyed vit in 7 rounds.when LL fought and had a rematch with the 2 guys that KOed him (mccall and rahman)he totally devastated them.that leads me to the reason of thinking LL would take vit out in a rematch.and i think the stoppage was legit.how would yall vit lovers had liked to see yalls fighter with his eyeball hanging out and never being able to fight again.

get the hell outta here wit that ****, Klitschko hit Lewis wit some good shots and Lewis was hurt and wobbly, Klitschko clearly had more stamina. Lewis was dropped few times in his career and Klitschko hasnt been knocked down yet, Lewis lost to a bum like Rahman who got beat by Johny Ruiz and clearly showed that he cant take a punch in the Rahman fight. If your boy knew he was gonna beat Klitschko why didint he fight him again and wussied out like a lil trick, coulda got his ass beat and made a lotta money. And as for the poutta shape **** he is a prize fighter whos paid to fight doesnt matter if he was outta shape it was all a big excuse for the poor showing he put on.

[Leo Pradun]

Look at Vitali's mouth..He would have injured him even more!Lennox would have eventually KO him.Keep in mind that this was Lewis out of shape once again in a big fight.An in shape Lewis would have blasted him in 4 rounds!

Some of the worst bull****t excuses I have ever heard...

[splittingatoms]

get the hell outta here wit that ****, Klitschko hit Lewis wit some good shots and Lewis was hurt and wobbly, Klitschko clearly had more stamina. Lewis was dropped few times in his career and Klitschko hasnt been knocked down yet, Lewis lost to a bum like Rahman who got beat by Johny Ruiz and clearly showed that he cant take a punch in the Rahman fight. If your boy knew he was gonna beat Klitschko why didint he fight him again and wussied out like a lil trick, coulda got his ass beat and made a lotta money. And as for the poutta shape **** he is a prize fighter whos paid to fight doesnt matter if he was outta shape it was all a big excuse for the poor showing he put on.

dude i can tell you dont know what the hell you are talking about by the bull**** you spew outta your piehole.yea and if rahman and a punk like mccall KOed lewis why didnt miss vit with all the power that yall says he has couldnt KO lewis.he hit lewis with everything that he had and still couldnt put lewis on the mat.that means that your punk boy dont hit as hard as mccall..lewis had planned on retireing after the tyson fight but he stuck around so that he could beat yalls hype boy vit.and he did just that ..he sliced vits face like hamburgar meat.

[GasPed]

I personally think Lewis would've KO'd Vitali in Round 7 or 8, just because of the big power shots he was landing in 5 and 6, even in his fatigued state. BTW, at the end of Round 6 when Lewis sits down, Manny Steward says "This is your fight now, baby", and it sounds like Lewis says "Yeah, I got it", but it could be the cutman too. What do you guys think?

[splittingatoms]

look i never give vit much credit.but i give him credit for bringing the fight to lewis.i had him winning the fight up till the forth round.then lewis started landing shot after shot.i think lewis didnt think vit was to much and didnt go into the fight with strong conditioning.vit surprised lewis being being as strong as he was.but lewis was starting to land big time.i think he had figured out vits style.i honestly believe that lewis would have finished vit in the 7th or 8th round.i dont give vit to much credit after the fight because the HW division is left with B-level and C-level fighters.but vits fans make these guys that he beat as if they were some of the best heavyweights to ever walk into the ring.until we have some real talent in the division ,he is always gonna be an average fighter to me.

[Torino]

If people believed Lewis was winning the fight, they wouldn't be saying he was out of shape. It's the fact that he was loosing that people have to make excuses for him. The truth is, Vitali was beating him regardless of Lewis's condition.

Lewis was a great boxer and beat all the best of his generation. He beat Vitali by way of some freak lacerations. Lewis cut him by chance. You can't say he cut him on purpose, Lewis had gloves on his hands and would punch the same way regardless. How do you cut someone intentionally when your wearing boxing gloves? Hence Lewis got lucky.

As for what would have happened in later rounds, we will never know. I for one think that Vitali would have knocked Lewis out. The cuts left Vitali few options.

Also you can't blame Vitali for fighting who's available. If the heavyweight division is weak, than I ask who left the division that made it weak? It's not Vitali's fault Forman got old, or Holyfield washed up, or Lewis retired........well....Maybe you can blame him for that. Lets just hope he fights more than once a year like Lewis did. So far, he is.

[Bozo_no no]

1st of all,

Asking people who won this fight and encouraging them to post their scores only inforces all the delusional Vitali nut huggers to get worked up.

The #1 piece of non sense the Klitschko fanatics bring up in regards to this fight was that Vitali was up on points.

Points have NOTHING to do with a fight that's STOPPED as a TECHNICAL KNOCK OUT.

Vitali did well early on, but Lennox elected to slug it out.

After 4 or 5 rounds, Vitali had suffered 5 seperate cuts (the worst being above his left eye, one under his left eye, one on his upper lip, one on his lower lip, and one in the roof of his mouth). The total was somewhere between 60-80 stitches.

Klitschko did better than anyone expected he would, and fought admirably, but the end result was his face sustaining so much damage from a result of Lennox Lewis' punches that the doctor was forced to stop the fight.


There is NO QUESTION who won this fight:




and anyone that wants to desperatly squabble about the scoring in a SIX round fight that was STOPPED is desperatly trying to hold on to something.

[splittingatoms]

If people believed Lewis was winning the fight, they wouldn't be saying he was out of shape. It's the fact that he was loosing that people have to make excuses for him. The truth is, Vitali was beating him regardless of Lewis's condition.

Lewis was a great boxer and beat all the best of his generation. He beat Vitali by way of some freak lacerations. Lewis cut him by chance. You can't say he cut him on purpose, Lewis had gloves on his hands and would punch the same way regardless. How do you cut someone intentionally when your wearing boxing gloves? Hence Lewis got lucky.

As for what would have happened in later rounds, we will never know. I for one think that Vitali would have knocked Lewis out. The cuts left Vitali few options.

Also you can't blame Vitali for fighting who's available. If the heavyweight division is weak, than I ask who left the division that made it weak? It's not Vitali's fault Forman got old, or Holyfield washed up, or Lewis retired........well....Maybe you can blame him for that. Lets just hope he fights more than once a year like Lewis did. So far, he is.

look i always said that it wasnt vits fault that the HW division is so weak.it just is.nobodys fault at all.and you actually believe that a person cant be cut by a punch with a boxing glove on..how long have you been watching boxing 1 month?when you throw a punch you always twist your hand at the end of you punch.if you time it just right when the glove touches the face and turn your punch,9 times out of 10 you will cut your oppont.its the first thing they teach you in a boxing gym,is how to turn your punch over.so your logic that lewis cut vit by a freak chance is crazy talk.and you can clearly see that lewis wasnt in his usual conditioning.he never winds out that early in a fight.never.i think he didnt train hard cuz he thought that he would walk all over vit.i give vit credit for fighting lewis as good as he di.but you can tell that lewis was turning the fight around.we will never know how it would have ended.but we can give our opinions.and my opinion was that vit was gonnna go down in either the 7 or 8 round.but you know what they say about opinions,,,they are like *******s ,everybody has one.