{"id":21499,"date":"2021-10-01T11:55:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/?p=21499"},"modified":"2021-10-01T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T19:01:28","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-lennox-lewis-and-vitali-klitschko-met-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-history-lennox-lewis-and-vitali-klitschko-met-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennox Lewis and Vitali Klitschko met again 3 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Lennox Lewis and Vitali Klitschko met again 3 years ago<\/h2>\n

October 1st, 2018<\/p>\n

On this day in history, during the opening ceremony of the magnificent WBC 56th Convention celebrated in Kyiv, Ukraine, heavyweight legends Lennox Lewis and Vitali Klitschko met again, but this time to chat about their epic encounter.<\/p>\n

Delegates at the WBC Convention in Kiev, held their breath, as Lennox, somberly donned white boxing gloves. \u00a0While Vitali pulled on\u00a0black.<\/p>\n

Lewis and Klitshcko decided to swop clusters of humorous, wry, occasionally piquent and slightly barbed references referring to their battle of the Titans.<\/p>\n

Originally supposed to be fighting \u00a0Kirk Johnson, until Vitali came up into the frame’ Lennox ruefully reflected: “Never take a fight on sixteen days notice!”<\/p>\n

Vitali hotly contests that even a baseball couldn’t have \u00a0knocked him down or out, that night saying: ” You know you were so lucky in that fight.” To which Lennox laconically countered: “you couldn’t finish me with one eye. \u00a0You needed two.”<\/p>\n

A wicked right cross from Lennox opened a divot of a cut on Vitali’s right eyelid in round three, which worsened. \u00a0And the fight was stopped before the seventh. Vitali talked about his combos, \u00a0while Lennox lauded landed \u00a0right uppercuts.<\/p>\n

Lennox joked \u00a0to Vitali: \u00a0“You could have been mayor and president….but not on that night. \u00a0Yet it was my hardest fight!”<\/p>\n

Vitali replied: “with heavyweights, just one punch can change everything!”<\/p>\n

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