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Some people say Vitali would have won the fight if it continued, As for those idiots who thought the Klitschko fight should have gone on..(and this one always makes me laugh)...
Vitali bloodied, nearly lost his eye, and people are still saying the fight should have gone on. These people are real idiots...
Sure Vitali looked like he wanted to continue, but lets be completely honest here and look at the facts, Vitali never fought 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 an 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 ridiculous, and imagine what kind of damage 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.
Vitali bloodied, nearly lost his eye, and people are still saying the fight should have gone on. These people are real idiots...
Sure Vitali looked like he wanted to continue, but lets be completely honest here and look at the facts, Vitali never fought 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 an 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 ridiculous, and imagine what kind of damage 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.
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