-Why was it such an act of courage? His face looked like hamburger. We have all seen this countless times. Why is is such a big deal when Klitschko does it? Any fighter worth his salt would have continued. Ridiculous that people think this is a big deal.man wrote:well, everyone else on the planet, includingAmbling Alp II wrote:KO% does not mean much by itself. You have to take into competition.
He never came close to stopping Byrd in their crappy fight before he was injured and quit.
Don't see how he showed courage against Lewis. He fought an obese fighter, and got stopped in six rounds.
A serious ankle injury is completely different than a shoulder injury. If you can't stand up, you can't fight. If you hurt your shoulder, you can still stand up. Remember, all he had to do was stand up for three rounds. Any fighter worth his salt would have toughed it out.
Tyson was light years better.
the commentators and the crowd on location
had thought he had shown courage. actually
they all couldn't stop talking about it.
and "obese" might be a stretch. plus lennox
was not the bouncing around type to begin
with. his additional seven pounds would
have played a role towards the end of the
fight, but up to that point, lewis didn't
seem to gas to me.
on the injury. i don't know, i find it weird to
hold this against him despite all achievements
and define him by being a quitter. first of
all he had real, physical reason and second
no serious boxing fan calls even roberto duran
a "quitter". there are indeed "quitters", but these
two proved in many hours of other bouts that
they were not such men.
- Take a look at Lewis in that fight. He was soft. Lewis was never soft in any other fight. It is important for many reasons.
He was clearly rusty. It didn't look like he had trained much at all. Yes Lewis did looked "gassed" at times, even though the fight only went six rounds. He looked slow.
-It's not weird at all to hold quitting Byrd against Klitschko. It happened. It was one of the two important fights of Klitschko's career. Duran's quitting against Leonard should be held against him too. Obviously that has to be weighed against Duran's many great performances; never the less it happened and has to count against Duran.
Klitschko does not have much else to weigh this against. His many achievements consist of being poor-mediocre competition. The WBS title defenses don't mean much. His best win was against Corrie Sanders. That says a lot right there.
He did not have to face adversity because his competition was so bad. It's what happens when you fight quality opponents that counts.
His best two opponents was a woefully out of shape Lewis and Chris Byrd, a good, but certainly not a great fighter. He went 0-2.
He had two big fights in his career; in one he quit. The other he got stopped in six rounds.
