Should Lewis have given Vitali a rematch?

[Bozo_no no]

Did Lewis give anyone who'd lost to him a rematch? I can't recall. I mean, he never gave Mercer another shot, and Ray gave him hell and definitely deserved a rematch. Although he should've gotten the nod in the first Holy fight, why didn't he give Holy a rematch being that their second fight was so close? Vitali definitely deserved a rematch, too, but I think he scared Lewis too much in their fight. The only one I recall Lewis granting a rematch was Tyson, someone he'd handled easily. Courage, thy name is not Lewis!

After beating Mercer, Lewis had the option to face him again, or rematch McCall, who he lost to earlier. No brainer there.

Agaisnt Holyfield, Lewis beat him clearly in the 1st fight, and while the rematch was closer it was still a clear win. As far as most sane spectators were concerned, Lewis beat Holyfield twice.

It's pretty funny what lenghts some of you will go to in bending logic trying to make yourselves feel better.

[N P]

Only to keep his word, but no reason otherwise.

[lennon]

People might think that this is irrealovent but it's not! Lewis tried to sue Mike Tyson into rematching him saying that Tyson was costing him millions of dollars by not taking the fight! He was gaurenteed some 20 plus million to rematch Vitali! He beat the **** out of Tyson easily and wanted to take the easy rematch to make another huge payday for little effort! He did not want to earn his payday with a tuff fight with Vitali even though he would have made probably close to the same! To me this makes him a coward! Every time he was interviewed after he beat Tyson he said he would only fight for outrageous sums of money and Tyson was gonna take a few fights and then maybe rematch Lewis. So Lewis thought he would take an easy fight with Johnson to kind of stay sharp but ended up fighting Vitali, and Tyson wouldn't committ so Lewis bailed! Most of this is from articles I have read in the past on this sight and others, and I know some of you remember hearing this.

He had a contract with tyson from the first fight that gave the loser the option of a rematch, tyson sent a letter requesting his contractual right for the rematch, lewis waited and later renegotiated the contract at tysons behest allowing both fighters another fight first, lewis was to face johnson and tyson was to face maskaev i think, tyson then pulled out costing lewis money and subsequently they replaced the "injured" johnson with vitali, so he sued tyson for breach of contract the contract that tyson asked for!