straycat wrote:This was TKO victory, no controversy, rounds are irrelevant.
Do you see the word controversy anywhere in here? Would you prefer we do not rewatch and score fights that were important when looking back because we can stop if you ask us to.
The score only comes into play if it goes the distance, but I do apologize for adding the word controversy when it wasn't initially mentioned.
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ScapposeJohn commenting on Shane Mosely possibly being unaware he was taking PED's wrote:
Likewise. It reminds me of President Clinton saying that he smoked weed in college but never inhaled. Yeah..........right.
The revisited section does revisit controversial fights so thats probably why I added it.
Much apologies once again.
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ScapposeJohn commenting on Shane Mosely possibly being unaware he was taking PED's wrote:
Likewise. It reminds me of President Clinton saying that he smoked weed in college but never inhaled. Yeah..........right.
I had Vitali ahead 4 rounds to 2. With Lennox winning the 3rd and 6th. That being said, no controversy here to me. Vitali's eye was ripped open about as bad of a cut as you'll ever see on a fighter.
The cut was caused by a combination of head butts and Lewis scraping Vitali's eye with the laces of his gloves during clinches. The fight should have gone to the cards with Vitali winning (5-1 or 6-0 on my card). This was a huge win for Vitali, and began his reign of glory at the top of the sport for the next decade to come.
RimmyJice wrote:The cut was caused by a combination of head butts and Lewis scraping Vitali's eye with the laces of his gloves during clinches. The fight should have gone to the cards with Vitali winning (5-1 or 6-0 on my card). This was a huge win for Vitali, and began his reign of glory at the top of the sport for the next decade to come.
i didnt know a reign of glory included beating stiffs and having back problems...and also never fighting the only threat in the division.
RimmyJice wrote:The cut was caused by a combination of head butts and Lewis scraping Vitali's eye with the laces of his gloves during clinches. The fight should have gone to the cards with Vitali winning (5-1 or 6-0 on my card). This was a huge win for Vitali, and began his reign of glory at the top of the sport for the next decade to come.
i didnt know a reign of glory included beating stiffs and having back problems...and also never fighting the only threat in the division.
He beat a who's who of professional boxing and cemented his place as the GOAT. Vitali is the most dominant champion of all time, never losing so much as a clear round, let alone a fight.
RASTA666 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:14 am
I'm glad you left out the term controversy here as the only controversy is the suggestion that their was one or is. This is one of the most clear cut tko's in the history of the sport as that massive cut was caused by a punch. It really makes no difference whether or not Vitali was up on the score cards. None whatsoever. This is Boxing 101 stuff. He was tko'd.
I guess we should have waited until Vitali's frontal lobe spilled out onto the canvas to call the fight.
There is no controversy or questions in this fight at all and btw I hated Lewis at the time and routinely called him a traitor.
What Rasta said.
Why did this get a review and all these damn responses...participation pats on the back? Lol. Shit is comedy. Let's start a similar type series and do Manny-JMM 4 next. Then Mercer-Morrison. Follow that up with a triple header of Canelo-Kahn, Spence-Brook and Crawford-Gamboa.
6 fights in honor of the amount of rounds Vitali's face was able to hold up from Lennox's offense.
RimmyJice wrote:The cut was caused by a combination of head butts and Lewis scraping Vitali's eye with the laces of his gloves during clinches. The fight should have gone to the cards with Vitali winning (5-1 or 6-0 on my card). This was a huge win for Vitali, and began his reign of glory at the top of the sport for the next decade to come.
i didnt know a reign of glory included beating stiffs and having back problems...and also never fighting the only threat in the division.
He beat a who's who of professional boxing and cemented his place as the GOAT. Vitali is the most dominant champion of all time, never losing so much as a clear round, let alone a fight.
I hate to quote someone who quit the board but goodness rimmy made a poor post here.
Wheezy wrote:
i didnt know a reign of glory included beating stiffs and having back problems...and also never fighting the only threat in the division.
He beat a who's who of professional boxing and cemented his place as the GOAT. Vitali is the most dominant champion of all time, never losing so much as a clear round, let alone a fight.
I hate to quote someone who quit the board but goodness rimmy made a poor post here.
Kleinfeld went full inbred. Lol. C'mon Kleiny, untuck that chain and bring back that hot fire!
I think it's a relatively rare opinion that the result or scoring of the fight were particularly controversial, although I reckon there are a decent amount of folks out there who would liked to have seen one more round.
What was more controversial though was how Lewis ultimately ended up leaving the sport afterwards.
He tried negotiating a rematch with Tyson that nobody wanted to see, while avoiding an immediate rematch with Klitschko that everybody wanted to see, and then Klitschko-Johnson got made as a mandatory for him, and after Klitschko looked better than ever in that, Lewis immediately retired talking about no more challenges, blah blah blah, while the boxing world was begging for a rematch, which is evidenced by us still talking about it now. Not the most noble end to a great career.