38-yr old Lennox Lewis vs 32-yr old Vitali Klitschko

[BangEM]

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Pretty even fight 3-3 by a shot, unmotivated and aged Lennox Lewis who took the fight on short notice after being in semi-retirement. And he still managed to inflict serious eye injury on Vitali.

Vitali was lucky the ref stopped the fight, else he'd be blind right now. Lennox just kept hitting that eye with big bombs, lol. Similar to Brook vs GGG but these idiots won't give Brook any respect for outboxing GGG prior to the eye injury but they think Vitali is the best thing since slice bread.

Vitali was a bum beater and he fought bums and half-decent boxers.

[Longhaul]

Lewis beat vitali on his worst day and vitalis best .

[4truth]

It was clear enough who the better fighter was on that particular night. Lewis couldn't do much until Vitali had to raise his chin just to see underneath his droopy lid. If not for the freak injury, it appeared Vitali would have won.

How a rematch would have played out is anyone's guess.

[BangEM]

It was clear enough who the better fighter was on that particular night. Lewis couldn't do much until Vitali had to raise his chin just to see underneath his droopy lid. If not for the freak injury, it appeared Vitali would have won.

How a rematch would have played out is anyone's guess.

Getting your eyes bursted with bombs is a freak injury to you, yh? Yank logic, lol.

I guess GGG also beat Brook due to a freak injury as well since Brook outboxed him throughout the fight.

[Jewish-Reptile]

Getting your eyes bursted with bombs is a freak injury to you, yh? Yank logic, lol.

I guess GGG also beat Brook due to a freak injury as well since Brook outboxed him throughout the fight.

Brook was nearly stopped in the first round if I recall correctly, the punches Golovkin was taking clearly weren’t phasing him in the least hence why he dropped his hands and went for the stoppage since the first round, I do however recall GG’s corner being concerned he was being hit too easy and giving round/s away with the fight going into the 4th or 5th whatever it was.

It’s not a fight I’ve seen since as it wasn’t really competitive if we’re going to debate him with agendas left aside.

[boliodogs]

To each his own. I saw them both fight many times. I think they are both great but Vitali was much tougher than Lewis. This the 2nd thread you started trashing Vitali in which you said Lewis was unmotivated. Lewis was the heavyweight champ defending his title. Part of being a god fighter is to be in shape and motivated. Vitali did have a 6 year youth advantage. I thought Vitali would have knocked Lewis out had he not been cut and would have knocked him out in a rematch. Vitali beat lots of good fighters and had a huge KO win percentage. I think he was just as good a champion as Lewis but everybody can decide that for themselves. Vitali was never knocked down and had an iron jaw. Lewis was KOed twice in his prime by two guys who were nothing special.

[HitmanTommy]

Vitali was never knocked down and had an iron jaw. Lewis was KOed twice in his prime by two guys who were nothing special.

Yeah. Dropped cold twice because he got careless and dropped his hands. Not because he was getting out boxed.

It's the HW division. One punch is all it takes if it lands perfectly.

[boliodogs]

Getting your eyes bursted with bombs is a freak injury to you, yh? Yank logic, lol.

I guess GGG also beat Brook due to a freak injury as well since Brook outboxed him throughout the fight.

You are so bias in favor of English boxers it's unbelievable. Brook was lucky to win a single round by accurate scoring. It was a very one sided fight in GGG's favor. GGG hurt him right away and kept hurting him. The eye injury had very little to do with Brook's loss. GGG hit way to hard for him. His trainer didn't stop the fight in the corner because of an eye injury. He threw in the towel in the middle of the round because Brook was only a punch or two away from getting knocked out cold. Brook would have been knocked out in that round if his eye had not been hurt at all. He did not belong in the same ring with GGG. He did outbox GGG in round 2 but one round is not a fight.

[boliodogs]

Yeah. Dropped cold twice because he got careless and dropped his hands. Not because he was getting out boxed.

It's the HW division. One punch is all it takes if it lands perfectly.

He got KOed by two heavyweights who were nothing special or huge punchers. He is chin was just not that good no matter how you want to spin it. He KOed both of them in return fights but those two losses still count against him just as they would count against anyone else. I doubt either of those guys that KOed Lewis could knock Vitali down with a perfect punch. Nobody else ever did.

[HitmanTommy]

He got KOed by two heavyweights who were nothing special or huge punchers. He is chin was just not that good no matter how you want to spin it. He KOed both of them in return fights but those two losses still count against him just as they would count against anyone else. I doubt either of those guys that KOed Lewis could knock Vitali down with a perfect punch. Nobody else ever did.

But that's because Vitali never got careless like that with his hands dropped moving away from his opponent. He underestimated both of them as they were C level fighters at best, but at the end of the day, they are still professional fighters in the heavyweight division with decent power.

Yes, the KO's count. Those marks will always be there on his record.