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Originally posted by Parody
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Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to take anything away from Lewis. He was a great boxer, no doubt about that. -
rahman was made to luk like a bum in the rematch with lennoxOriginally posted by UnderControl-
vittALi got his ass handed with the cuts.
sam peter is a little one dimensional,
trust me. no1 can test with lewisComment
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To me you seem to be biased. Maybe you are right, though.Originally posted by 2tough
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Lennox can handle big punchers very well, see:
Lewis vs Tua
Lewis vs Briggs
Lewis vs Rahman II
Lewis vs Klitschko
Lewis vs Ruddock
Lewis vs Bruno
Lewis vs Tyson
in terms of technical ability and skills Lewis would handle Peter easily..Peter is a big puncher but does'nt have the skillsComment
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I was talking about the version that fought Klitschko, not Lennox Lewis in general.Originally posted by ParodyComment
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i see some people say about lewis taking the fight on 2 weeks notice, well the same thing goes for vitaliComment
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hows your training going? are you even snapping your punches now? or are you still doing arm punches??Originally posted by ParodyComment
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looking back in retrospect, this six round "brawl" is still one of the most exciting heavyweight fights i have seen of the last 10 years or so. getting the obvious outta the way, niether klitschko nor lewis were training for eachother.
if it were not for the cuts susutained by klitschko, i honestly don't think i would be able to predict an outcome. on one hand, lewis was the veteran and a bit more experience in big fights, and on the other klitschko was fresher, motivated and had something to prove. vitali had dominated to some degree the early rounds, and it looked like he should've jumped on lewis while he was out on his feet - however, it seemed as though vitali didn't take that chance and gave lewis too much respect. going into rounds five and six lewis was landed a bit more often, and hit vitali with some shots that would've dumped your average heavyweight on his ass. but by the increase in tempo, to me it had looked like ll was going to be slowing down soon after round six. while vitali, clearly had a lot of energy left and usually gets another wind around rounds 7, 8, and 9.
so, getting that **** out of the way, i think lewis would've easily handled most heavyweights that night. and out of the current heavies, really only vitali's younger brother, wladimir, and maybe liakhovich or byrd might have giving him trouble or possibly beat him. i want to point out that i can't say for sure about sergei because i haven't seen much of him and have only seen him in one big fight. back in 2003 though, i think vk was the only fighter at that time that could've beaten lewis 2 out of 3 times.Comment
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as for peter or briggs, nah, i don't think they would have given a better preformance than what we have seen from them already. peter would easily get outboxed, and briggs might even be stopped because he never looks much in shape these days.Comment
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As for the Klitschko stoppage; (and this one always makes me laugh)...Originally posted by UnderControl-
Vitali Bloody near lost his ****in' eye, and people are still saying the fight should have gone on. These people are idiots.
Sure Vitali looked like he wanted to keep goin', but lets be completely honest here and look at the facts, Vitali never faught a "real top contender" after he was "handed" over his heavyweight belt, and then he quit when a manditory big name was sent his way. So if Vitali didn't want to fight Rahman or Toney even as an example when he was healthy; (and hey Vitali has other huge career prospects so all the power to him now that he is not a boxer), but imagine how he would have felt losing not only a fight to Lennox Lewis that night, but also a ****in' eye.
It was a great stoppage. There are rules in boxing to protect the boxers, this is a "gentleman's" sport, and had that fight gone on much longer, the entire respect of the sport may have been lost. I mean sure boxers die, and basketball and football players collapse and die as well; But imagine a politcal figure wearing an eye patch in an internationally broadcasted debate or interview or whatever, because the referee of a boxing match let a very poorly conditioned Lennox Lewis take the guys eye right out of his face before claiming victory for the champion is absolutely rediculous, and imagine what kinda of dammage that could have done to boxing around the entire world...
There are very clear rules about cuts in this sport that date back to ... hell I don't even know how far, gotta be the bare knuckle days. And those rules proved their purpose in the Lewis Klitschko fight, just like the TKO rule was necessary when Rahman grew a beachball on the side of his head. The object of the game is to win, not to end the oppponents life, that's what seperates the "art" or the "sweet science" of boxing from MMA (which I also love and have a complete respect for), and other combat sports which are derrived from complete survival fighting, which is totally different. Boxing is a very tough "gentleman's" competion, one on one, hands only, no huge bones to strike with like elbows or skulls, and has very distinct rules to keep it as safe as possible, and as UFC has even proven, any fight sport has to have a certain level of rules now or people will die, or possibly worse, have to be pushed around in a wheel chair all disfigured for the rest of their lives, because a ref let a fight go 10 seconds too long.
Anyone who says the Lewis Klitschko fight should have gone on either has never been inside the ring, or is a complete idiot. End of discussion...Comment
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