Should there have been a Vitali-Lewis rematch?
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LONDON, 6 June 2003 — World heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis says Mike Tyson is scared of him and there is no chance of a rematch between the pair. “I won’t ever fight Tyson again,” Lewis told British newspapers yesterday from his training camp in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. “That’s over. He’s seriously scared of me and his time has passed,” added the Briton, who will fight for the first time in more than a year when he takes on Canadian Kirk Johnson, 30, in Los Angeles on June 21.
“A lot of different things happened to me in my year out of the ring. Most definitely I’ve been thinking about retiring on a last big super-fight — it could be Vitali Klitschko or Roy Jones."Comment
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Ignore that and don't let him take you off topic. It's what he wants because he knows I have his ass in a sling with proof Lewis already had plans to retire and owed Vittles nothing.
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I think the fight warranted a rematch but it is what it is. It's the same as saying charr deserves a rematch because the fight was stopped prematurely, vitali didn't dominate like he normally does. If charr goes onto be something will that mean vitali ducked a rematch? Both sides show a bit of revisionist flair, but for me it was a 50/50 fight with vitali being the fresher fighter, so I believe he would have outlasted Lewis. Would he have done this with a prime Lewis? I don't know, but I don't think this was a prime vitali, I think he grew that night in the ring. This was the fight that he proved to himself that he belonged. I don't see the need to insult either fighter, both great in there own right and both should be remembered that way.Comment
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No. There's a big difference. Vitali was ahead on points in a very exiting fight before the stoppage. Charr was beaten and was never a threat. Furthermore Vitali had been Lummox's mando for years and had been unfairly stalled. Charr was borderline top 10.Comment
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Lewis would have been 38 (retirable age for almost every HW champion ever) so OBVIOUSLY no.
Its only not obvious if you are a ****** klitlicker and cant get basic logic about when people retire from sport, and you are ****** enough to call ageing a 'fear'.
On the other hand if Lennox was 30, then there was plenty of room for a rematch, only the of course prime Lennox would have destroyed Vittles twice as fast in those circumstances, and on both occasions.Last edited by DreamFighter; 04-08-2013, 05:18 PM.Comment
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