Lennox Lewis Vs. Vitali Klitschko: The Fight/Win/Controversy That Taints Lennox’s Legacy?
Plenty of fights, if they are one of the following: great, controversial in nature in terms of result or simply fan-demanded, happen.
Vitali Klitschko boxing news
Plenty of fights, if they are one of the following: great, controversial in nature in terms of result or simply fan-demanded, happen.
20 years ago today, heavyweight great Vitali Klitschko arguably scored the biggest win of his career. “Dr. Iron Fist,” one winning fight removed from his tough and bloody loss to fellow great Lennox Lewis (this Vitali’s most famous fight, albeit a losing one), met Corrie Sanders for the vacant WBC title.
June 21, 2003 – The Staples Center, Los Angeles. It was on this day when heavyweight king Lennox Lewis took on WBC number-one ranked contender Vitali Klitschko, this in a fight that came on short notice for both men, Kirk Johnson, Lewis’ original foe, pulling out injured.
Former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko has been fighting a much bigger, much more important, much more closer to his heart battle recently, what with the ongoing Russian invasion of his country Ukraine.
Vitali Klitschko will be honoured with the prestigious Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2022 ESPYS on July 20th, ESPN reports.
As fans know, Oleksandr Usyk has begun training for his return fight with Anthony Joshua, Usyk having left war-torn Ukraine to get ready for the rematch that will either go ahead in June or perhaps in July.
The Klitschko brothers, Vitali and Wladimir, have called for the WBA to ban Russian boxer Dmitry Bivol and not let him compete in his big May 7 fight with superstar Canelo Alvarez.
“Keep fighting boys! Never surrender!” – image by Barthes Designs
That’s heavyweight champion Tyson Fury addressing Vladimir Putin’s Russian invasion of Ukraine … voicing support for star boxers like Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko, Vasyl Lomachenko and Oleksandr Usyk.
Forget any opponent they each faced in the boxing ring.
The world was shocked yesterday, when Russian leader Vladimir Putin had his troops invade Ukraine.
A decade ago today, in Munich, Germany, a world heavyweight title fight was overshadowed by the wholly unexpected, highly illegal violence that followed it.