How many can you name? Boxing game thread!

has fuck-all to do with anything

he was rearranging the man's face and if it had gone on another two round, Vitali klitschko would have been stopped brutally with half of his face hanging off... he was getting hurt bad

Herol Graham was winning by miles when his head was nearly removed by one right hand... I DEMAND A REMATCH!!! NO FAIR!!!

Apparently, smashing right hands into a guys face until it looks like his eye is going to pop out isnt a real victory unless you outjab and take another round or two at the beginning of the fight

 

Vitali never would have given him brain damage. All he had to do was stagger Vitali around the ring like a drunk, punch some more holes in his face again, and wait for him to be rescued.

 

when you punch a guy's eyeball out of his skull, you win... you are better than that guy

I know this is difficult to grasp, but generally you dont want your eyeball to fall out... its kind of important

 

A round or two in the beginning?



You guys are crazy. You seriously do not think that this fight warranted an immediate rematch?

 

Agreed, the worst damage a Vitali rematch would've inflicted on Lewis would've been from making him train to get below 250.

 

I see both sides of the argument with Lewis-Vitali.

No doubt, a TKO is a TKO. Yes, Vitali was winning, but the fight was correctly stopped when it was, even though Vitali went ballistic and clearly wanted to continue. There's no disputing that it was a justified TKO.

However, the flip side is that Lewis was completely gassed at that point. I don't recall Vitali being in that great of shape either, but I do remember Lewis gasping for air and moving extremely slow back to his corner.

There's no telling what would've happened had the bout continued.

So there is the argument that there was unfinished business. The Graham argument doesn't hold water - he was knocked out cold in one of the greatest knockouts in boxing history. As conclusive an ending as there has ever been.

 

Yes, his eye is hanging on by a thread. :shit:

 

He took the Vitali fight on short notice: he thought he was fighting Byrd before a Tyson rematch.

No Byrd fight + no Tyson rematch + 38 years old = retirement.

This is very simple stuff, really. You might be able to comprehend this better if Vitali's nutsack weren't slapping against your chin...

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It warranted an immediate rematch if Lewis wanted to give him one.

Sorta like how Rahman deserved a fight with Vitali if Vitali wanted to give him one. Or not. I don't really care.

 

he already did that... why does he have to prove he can do it again?

if you punch the guy's face into mush and he has to be saved from himself, you have proven that you are the winner

this wasnt a headbutt-induced cut, it wasnt a 12 round majority decision... it was "my right hand nearly removed your eye" ... it is a straight-up victory... Lewis had absolutely no obligation to rematch Vitali, he had proven himself the victor, he won the fight

 

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

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He actually thought he was fighting Kirk Johnson. He was never going to fight Byrd, and even dumped a belt in exchange for a chunk of cash (I want to say $1 million) and a Range Rover just to give King one more titlist in his stable.

 

yeah, that eye is GREAT shape:laugh11:

 

You conveniently leave out the fact that Klit also took the fight on 2 weeks notice.

As I said; I do not like Vitali. I am a fan of Wlad, but Vitali's style never really appealed to me.

I just think that we were robbed of the last great HW title fight. One guy wanted it. One did not. It's quite simple.

 

He didn't want to fight Byrd. Johnson's the guy who got injured....and as Vitali showed, Lewis thought he was in for an easy night and trained as such.

 

Vitali was already on the card.

 

sssshh... you arent supposed to mention this undeniable fact

 

Brewster-Lyakhovich IMO was better then Lewis-Vitali, and that was a "title" fight:

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My bad- as I was typing I couldn't recall if it Johson or whoever else: it was a long time ago and I've had a long day

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You're right; it's really hanging out of the socket! It's a wonder he was able to fight again!

 

Brewster-Klitschko I was pretty good, too.

I've been told Irish prefers the second version, for some reason.

 

For me, it seems more likely that Vitali would have lost on the cuts finally overwhelming the sensibilities of all and sundry and a referee, doctor, cornerman eventually forcing the fight to end.

But more likely does not mean more definite.

How many fights can we pick out where a man is defeated, he must be...no way back...only for him to do just that? McClellan vs Benn- two occasions a stoppage in favour of McClellan would have been justified.

Lewis was about fucked by the end of the 6th and everybody knows it.

Christ..give us ONE MORE ROUND...Arturo Gatti got round after round in his career- against Robinson, Manfredy, Joe Hutchinson.

 

no, you're right, its a totally routine cut, not bad at all, it certainly could have withstood another 20 right hands

 

It must be nice to be a Lewis fan. When he loses it's because he was out of shape or wasn't taking his opponent serious enough.

We wouldn't want the HW Champion of the World to take his job serious or anything and come into shape for each fight in which he gets paid millions of dollars. That would be asking too much.

 

Its called a rematch, but don't worry, I know thats a dirty word in this thread and you prefer not to use it. :shadow::shadow::shadow:

 

Had Lewis landed 20 clean right hands in the preceding 6 rounds?

 

pretty significant difference between those guys and Lennox Lewis

and stop tyring to act like Vitali was fresh as a fucking daisy when it was stopped

 

There was nothing good about either Brewster-Klit fight. Both were completely one-sided affairs. It just so happens in the first one Klit punched Brewster so many times that he himself collapsed.

 

He was fresher than Lewis, and wanted to fight on. Enough said.

 

nice try, I'm not a Lewis fan, I had very little rooting interest in him