VKlit deserves our respect...here's why!

[Hurlex]

ruiz has the est boxing remuse' lol..anyway..yeah let vitali gai his respect man,....in the mean time...watch winky/mosley-castillo/casa and mab/moralesin next few weeks...all good fights

[guru]

the rankings by alphabet organizations are meaningless.... how did meehan get ranked??? who did he beat??

how did golota get ranked before his fight with byrd?? who did he beat, he handn't even fought in two years....

go all the way back to when lewis gave up the WBA title instead of fighting ruiz, the #1 contender... ruiz beat nobody but king got him the #1 position.... there is no credibility to those rankings....

[PRboxingfan]

Vitali would get murdered by Toney, end of story. He might be able to beat Byrd, would KO Ruiz, Golota would be a good fight, Brewster shouldn't even bother getting in the ring because he'd get KTFO in 2 rounds, and Guinn would knock him into next week.

Recap: Vitali can beat almost every HW except Toney, Golota, and Guinn and MIGHT beat Byrd. How is he the man?

[guru]

toney has only beaten one heaveyweight, holyfield... and we all know how shot he is....

[neils7147933]

toney has only beaten one heaveyweight, holyfield... and we all know how shot he is....

I'm not a Vitali hater, but I think it's ridiculous not to be a Vitali doubter.

Someone using Vaughn Bean and Larry Donald to defend the most dominant man in the heavyweight division is resorting to outrageous depths...

Kirk Johnson and Corrie Sanders were both past their prime, and both very very out of shape.

Vitali needs to face some of these guys who actually ranked before he earns the respect so many have already given him. How would he do against Byrd (again), Ruiz, Toney, Rahman, Guinn, etc.

Who knows til he actually signs to fight them?

[guru]

i agree that VK isnt god, but it seems silly not to say he's the man in the division right now....

byrd and ruiz are only fighting other don king fighters, while VK is KOing the best guys available... sanders and KJ are better comp then golota, holyfield, mccline and fres....

[neils7147933]

i agree that VK isnt god, but it seems silly not to say he's the man in the division right now....

byrd and ruiz are only fighting other don king fighters, while VK is KOing the best guys available... sanders and KJ are better comp then golota, holyfield, mccline and fres....

were you grimacing while typing that kirk johnson is better than any of those guys?

[scap]

Currently I can't see Vitaly losing to any on e in the division, I still have my doubts about him but compared to the rest of the division I think he is easily the man too beat!

Ruiz-keeps winning but VK would cut him down!
Byrd-No problem, Byrd is not that good, if he was 230 pounds people would have said that along time ago. How many decisions can this guy get?
Brewster-horrible
VKlit-the best of the worst and maybe, just maybe better than many think, that is all I am saying!

[guru]

johnson sucks, but golota, fres and mcline suck worse... golota couldn't beat GRANT.....

[PBDS]

There are a lot of Vitaly Klitchko haters/doubters out there and I think that many are off base. I do realize that it may be me that is offbase-it could just be that I am so ready/hopeful/praying...for someone to take hold of the division and dominate it that I could have blinders on, but for now I don't think that is the case.

People out there act like Vklit was beaten by Chris Byrd, well it does count as a loss but If I were Chris Byrd that is no victory that I would be bragging about, he got his ass kicked in that fight as was the most surprised man in the arena when Vitaly decided to hang it up with a huge lead on the cards...Give VK the benefit of the doubt here after all for the entire fight he dominated a guy that is supposedly one of the most if not the most difficult fighters to fight. If he quits again then lets talk about it.

VKLIT v. LEWIS...This is his biggest argument and why fans should think a bit more of him. I am not going too say that he was going to win that fight, it was in all reality either mans fight going into the 7th. Vklit was a bit out of steam and was somewhat hurt and Lewis barely landed on his stewl at the end of the 6th, both men appeared to be done! He hurt Lewis repeately in this fight and throughout the bout took huge shots and showed as he has recently that he knows how too survive when he needs too, unlike his brother. What I find interesting and solidifying in Vklit's case is that Lewis did not want a rematch? What the hell? What the hell? Lewis said that he had done everything he needed to do and his legacy was complete....wrong! Lewis let a guy **** him around for six rounds, Lewis was lucky in a way with the cut, the punch was not a clean cut right hand, it landed high and his glove slid up Vitaly's face, it looked like a half punch half duck tape cut too me. When Lewis was supposedly in his prime he let a big unccoordinated quitter take the fight too him and at the time of the stoppage this quitter was up on all cards. Thats Lennox's last fight...why no rematch?

No rematch because this guy is better than you think, Lewis figured that the public would give him a pass because he was not in shape (Manny Steward said he was in great shape, and two weeks before when the Johnson fight was in jeopardy Jim Lampley was interviewing Lennox talking about what great shape he was in and how it would be a shame if the Johnson fight did not come off)
and he underestimated the guy, Lewis figured that everyone new that if he was primed and ready to go then it would have been an easy night. Is that what he figured? Manny Steward and Lennox knew that a rematch was nothing like a rematch with McCall or Rock, they were facing a guy that matched up very well with them. In all reality Rock doesn't match up well with LEwis, like Rock said I couldn't even get close too him in the second fight. Vitaly can and would've.

The fact that Lennox refused a rematch with a guy who was beating him should tell you that this guy is legit or at the very least better than you think. He smoked Kirk Johnson like no one else has, he was nailed with some huge lefts in the sanders fight(ones that he never saw coming, oh by the way he had never fought a southpaw before), easily survived and dished out a monster beating, he has been incredibly resourceful with his punches showing that he does watch weak fighters like WladKLIT and yes...he learns from their mistakes. He will thrash Danny Willians as well with relative ease. After the Williams fight there will still be people out there that think he sucks. The only thing that I know for sure is that it won't be me and more importantly it won't be Lennox Lewis.

....Great post except for the southpaw error. Yeah Lennox knows the score and that is the most telling thing about V.