Vitali - Mummys boy Lennox wanted rematch

[True Guru]

The 38-year-old lost his WBC title bout with Lewis in 2003 after a cut forced the Ukrainian to be stopped in the sixth round, although he was ahead on the judges' scorecards at the time.
Klitschko is still fighting on seven years later and is still smarting at the fact he never got a chance to fight Lewis again - and he believes he knows the reason why.
"Lennox promised me but his mum decided he wasn't going to fight," Klitschko said ahead of the Laureus World Sports Awards in Abu Dhabi.


"He invited me to London, without managers, he said he wanted to talk just together. I came to the room and his mum is there. We talked for two hours and his mum was looking at me and scanning me.
"After that I went away and he called me a couple of hours later and said 'Sorry, but no'. I felt it wasn't his decision, his mum decided. I tried to change his decision, but it's difficult.
"But I was appreciative to Lennox Lewis that I got the chance to prove my skills against the toughest fighter in the world. But he was lucky, because I was ahead but the doctor stopped the fight with the cut."

[ModernTalking]

What a fight it would have been if there wasn't any cut LOL. Anyway those cuts were big and I have no problem with them stopping it.

[Shazam!]

Yeah, could have been one of the real heavyweight classics. Both men were fighting for their lives, landing a lot of shots. One thing's for sure...it wouldn't have gone the distance. Someone was gonna get knocked out. I was confident Lennox was coming back and was gonna knock Vitali out after being surprised in the first few rounds, but we'll never know.

I'm a Lennox fan and am glad he retired before he got too old (like the sad case of Holyfield). But massive respect to Vitali. That guy is a fantastic boxer and it's a shame he hasn't had the chance to continue testing himself against that kind of opposition. So he can never go down as a great. But I think he had the potential to.