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You do realise you are as bad as some of the Klitschko fanboys when you write this stuff. Torn rotator cuff is a career ending injury...more so than even a cut or anything else, because if your shoulder is gone that's it for boxing...one can only speculate if Vitali could or should have continued, perhaps he could have, but who knows. Where Byrd began his career is irrelevant - he was a HW at the time.
In retrospect, Vitali could have ended his career that night and never become the champ - and for what? He showed he was clearly better than Byrd. However, the funny thing is also when people say he ducked Byrd later. Wladimir fought Byrd in the next fight that year, while Vitali was still injured, and after that it's clearly understandable it would make no sense for Byrd to come of a big loss to a Klitschko brother to go straight back in with Vitali. He himself knew his career at the top would have ended there or certainly slowed with 2 (arguably 3) losses in a row.
Byrd went down a different route, IBF I believe, while Vitali went down the WBC and Wlad was obviously the WBO champion. Byrd did his thing and Vitali went for Lennox. After that was of course the continuation for Vitali getting the WBC belt, and he retired not long after, and when he came back Byrd was no longer relevant...so when you delve deeper and look at things objectively and understand the business, some fights just don't come together due to circumstances.
The Klitschkos are also unfortunate that the greats continuing from the previous era were KO'd by lesser fighters or less household names, before Klitschkos could fight them. Take Tyson for example...Danny Williams KO'd him, not Vitali's fault, but I bet if Vitali had destroyed Mike like he did Williams, even if we all know he was shot, that would be seen as some big milestone in his resume.Comment
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Most felt that he quit, but as PainfromUkraine points out, it was a serious injury and he picked it up already early in the fight too. Vitali isn't a quitter, we know that from the Lennox fight, and the Chisora fight for example, where he fought with one arm during most of the bout.Comment
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brian nielsen-larry holmes, tim witherspoon, and tony tubbs
vitali klitschko-corrie sanders, sam peter, and tomas adamek
who had the better resume?Comment
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Sorry but I couldn't see Vitali destroy that Tyson to be honest,Tyson was bombing Williams and got caught in a short exchange with one punch KO power... I can't see Vitali ruining Tyson with one punch... heck he might have outpointed Tyson or forced a corner stoppage late in the fight but nothing in Vitali's past makes me or anyone with half a brain think he would destroy the Tyson that Williams fought You do realise you are as bad as some of the Klitschko fanboys when you write this stuff. Torn rotator cuff is a career ending injury...more so than even a cut or anything else, because if your shoulder is gone that's it for boxing...one can only speculate if Vitali could or should have continued, perhaps he could have, but who knows. Where Byrd began his career is irrelevant - he was a HW at the time.
In retrospect, Vitali could have ended his career that night and never become the champ - and for what? He showed he was clearly better than Byrd. However, the funny thing is also when people say he ducked Byrd later. Wladimir fought Byrd in the next fight that year, while Vitali was still injured, and after that it's clearly understandable it would make no sense for Byrd to come of a big loss to a Klitschko brother to go straight back in with Vitali. He himself knew his career at the top would have ended there or certainly slowed with 2 (arguably 3) losses in a row.
Byrd went down a different route, IBF I believe, while Vitali went down the WBC and Wlad was obviously the WBO champion. Byrd did his thing and Vitali went for Lennox. After that was of course the continuation for Vitali getting the WBC belt, and he retired not long after, and when he came back Byrd was no longer relevant...so when you delve deeper and look at things objectively and understand the business, some fights just don't come together due to circumstances.
The Klitschkos are also unfortunate that the greats continuing from the previous era were KO'd by lesser fighters or less household names, before Klitschkos could fight them. Take Tyson for example...Danny Williams KO'd him, not Vitali's fault, but I bet if Vitali had destroyed Mike like he did Williams, even if we all know he was shot, that would be seen as some big milestone in his resume.Comment
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