Outside of Lennox Lewis who gave Vitali Klitchko the toughest fight?

[Deathknight88]

Vitali was up 8 rounds to 1. The fight wasn't at all close

How can you have a picture of the great Emmanuel and still sound so ignorant/hateful/bias? Vitali is the far greater fighter than Bryd. but to discredit Bryd like the way you talk is disgusting. Byrd did a lot better than scorecards indicated. Did you even watch the fight? It was on route to a German robbery. Even Vitali himself said he didn't know if he was up.

[whoelibits]

If we look outside of boxing, the obvious answer is Pele Reid.

Despite Vitali's politician-like claim, there were plenty of witnesses in the room (including a BBC reporter, I think), who saw him knocked out in the second round.

[Salardo]

Dereck Chisora gave him the hardest fight (apart from Lennox Lewis)