Fighters Ducking Fighters??

[TheEvilSaint]

what the hell!!!! LOL how the hell is Lewis career tainted for not fighting John Ruiz or Chir Bryd. hahaha thats funny

its tainted because he his a FIGHT-DODGER! joe louis didnt drop a title to avoid fighting somebody. rocky marciano didnt retire to stay away from a contender. jack dempsey never said "i'm not touching him." but lewis did all of these things. i rest my case.

[ottoevans]

is there anybody who agrees with him??? (THEEVILSAINT)

do ya think Lewis legacy is tainted from not facing Ruiz and Byrd??

[JUYJUY]

It has to be Roy Jones, it was quite ridiculous.

[scottie]

"would have knocked him out"? i saw that fight, u obviously werent paying attention. when the last round was over, vitali WALKED to his corner and sat down. lewis on the other hand WOBBLED and STAGGERED his way to his stool. and when he found out he was the winner, he stood up and with a blank look in his eye and no balance on his feet he raised his arms in victory and he looked like anything but a winner.

no, ruiz is not the man to beat, nor is byrd. but they were mandatories and they were contenders, and if lewis was as good as u say he was, he could have knocked them into next year, proved he was the best, and KEEP HIS TITLES. but he decided to take the safe road and not risk anything. he even said "I'm not touching Byrd." i dont think joe frazier ever said that about muhammad ali. i dont think marvin hagler ever said that about sugar ray leonard. lewis' play-it-safe style of life and style of fighting is a true disgrace to boxing.

i saw the fight too, about 5 times and obviously we saw diffent ones. i didn't see any wobble. before the fight was stopped, the workrate of vitali was continously dropping as he tired out very fast. if somebody here has the punch stats for that round its pretty clear who was winning. lennox was connecting with regularity and its just a matter of time really.

well byrd and ruiz, if lewis fought either one on his last fight and not vitali, there's someone who'll say he ducked vitali. give him a break.

[The Troll]

As far as ducking fighters goes Roy Jones Jr is the king in that category. I get tired of being a Roy Jones Jr hater I dont really like to do it. I dont really hate Jones, but he did duck pretty much all the best fighters in the all the weight classes he was in with the exception of middleweight.

I think Anorak said that Hopkins ducks fighters. I am not really a big Hopkins fan. But he has not really ducked anybody IMO. The fact that he is fighting the dangerous contender Jermaine Taylor shows that. IMO Jermaine Taylor is a much more dangerous opponent than Winky Wright is.

[sanjayint]

it doesnt matter what ppl say, Lennox Lewis was the bomb, didnt tyson duck lewis in 1996 ??

[The Troll]

it doesnt matter what ppl say, Lennox Lewis was the bomb, didnt tyson duck lewis in 1996 ??

Lewis was not even Champion when Tyson fought Holyfield. Tyson had the WBA and WBC titles and think Michael Moorer had the IBF. Then by the time Lewis got the WBC back Tyson was suspended for biting Holyfield. He did not duck him at all. At that time Lewis was coming off his loss to McCall basically.

[TheEvilSaint]

i saw the fight too, about 5 times and obviously we saw diffent ones. i didn't see any wobble. before the fight was stopped, the workrate of vitali was continously dropping as he tired out very fast. if somebody here has the punch stats for that round its pretty clear who was winning. lennox was connecting with regularity and its just a matter of time really.

well byrd and ruiz, if lewis fought either one on his last fight and not vitali, there's someone who'll say he ducked vitali. give him a break.

somewhere in the last round, lewis lands a really powerful right uppercut to VK's chin and vitali doesnt even take a step back. later in the round, vitali lands a right hand and lewis staggers back, vitali lands another and lewis if flailing around like hes about to fall. and dont u think that it might be a coincidence that all three judges had the fight scored 58-56, 4 rounds to 2, in favor of vitali klitchko?

well, lewis wouldnt be a fight dodger if he fought at least two of those three fighters. or at least given vitali a rematch.

do me a favor: name another heavyweight champion that dropped a title, was stripped of a title, and retired in the prospect of a rematch. i promise you this: lennox lewis is the only heavyweight champion who did this. and REAL heavyweight champions dont run away.

[The Troll]

somewhere in the last round, lewis lands a really powerful right uppercut to VK's chin and vitali doesnt even take a step back. later in the round, vitali lands a right hand and lewis staggers back, vitali lands another and lewis if flailing around like hes about to fall. and dont u think that it might be a coincidence that all three judges had the fight scored 58-56, 4 rounds to 2, in favor of vitali klitchko?

well, lewis wouldnt be a fight dodger if he fought at least two of those three fighters. or at least given vitali a rematch.

do me a favor: name another heavyweight champion that dropped a title, was stripped of a title, and retired in the prospect of a rematch. i promise you this: lennox lewis is the only heavyweight champion who did this. and REAL heavyweight champions dont run away.

Tyson dropped the WBC in 1996 to avoid facing the WBC mandatory which was a nobody like Bruce Seldon or something in order to fight Evander Holyfield.

[TheEvilSaint]

Tyson dropped the WBC in 1996 to avoid facing the WBC mandatory which was a nobody like Bruce Seldon or something in order to fight Evander Holyfield.

he was stripped of the title for avoiding a fight with lennox lewis. alright, but did he drop a title, too? did he retire in the wake of an ass-whooping, like lewis did?