[Rob]

Originally Posted by The Outlaw IF is a big word though. Especially when the people who were at the fight had the reaction they did when the match was stopped. ALA boo'ing. Everyone there knew Klitchko was ****ing Lewis up. I mean, if Lewis ****ed Klitchko up the first time, and I'm talking about doing to Vitali what he did to Lewis (and yes, the cut on his eye was bad, I'm not debating that fact), then yes I say the way it went down is the best, but because of the controversy, I do not think that he went out the right way.

That's why I stressed IF

As for the first fight, the people boo'ed because it was stopped on cut when things were heating up. Lewis was two rounds behind but was coming back (can't debate it because he got the two rounds before the stoppage on all cards). When you look at the tape, yes Lewis did practically collapse into his stool (not debatable) but everyone seems to (or wants to) forget Klitchko took the best part of 20 seconds to get back to his stool and couldn't sit on the stool because he knew he never had the energy to get back up. That fight would have ended in the next two rounds for an absolute fact because neither man would have lasted another 2!

At the end of the day, can people really dispute that the division is still grasping on that life support machine instead of beind declared dead? It's time to look ahead anyways and look for future stars. Both the Klitchkos are over rated and if Chris Byrd and Corrie Sanders can find that out, everyone else should start opening their eyes.

Take away Lewis and Roy Jones Jnr (since he is going back to fight at light-heavy), the top 8 looks like this:

Chris Byrd
Vitali Klitschko
Corrie Sanders
James Toney
Mike Tyson
David Tua
Wladimir Klitschko
Fres Oquendo

Aside from a well built up Tyson vs. Toney or one of them against Vitali Klitschko (if he wins the WBC title), the division is absolute mince.