I am admittedly just not a big Klitschko fan, neither of them have ever put on what I would consider an inspiring performance. I think MMA has done a lot to pull all of the best big men into a different combat sport. I think the brothers have reigned supreme in the worst decade for HW boxing in my lifetime. I might be biased as an American I suppose, but as everyone has pointed out they both have some pretty bad losses to point to. Wladmir especially... And Lennox beat Vitali on what may have been one of his top 5 worst nights.
It's easy to call it a bad performance when he was getting taken to the cleaners. How convenient.
Vitali should've come back and fought Byrd, and avenged his own loss, and let Wlad continue on the path he was on ... which was a fight with Lewis.
Vitali had plenty of opportunities to fight Byrd. I don't know why he didn't. Like someone mentioned before, they both held titles at the same time after Lewis retired.
Wlad managed to find time to fight Byrd TWICE after Byrd defeated Vitali, but Vitali never got around to it?
Not fighting Byrd again and avenging his loss was probably the second worst career decision Vitali ever made, (quitting against Byrd when he was way ahead being the first) because I think he would've defeated Byrd easily.
This is all I agree on in this post. I already sent a post through explaining why the rematch didn't happen.
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