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The Ukrainian dueling Lennox Lewis received a cut.
The referee stopped the fight before the seventh round / photo klitschko-brothers.com
Ukrainian boxing legend Vitali Klitschko’s fight against Briton Lennox Lewis entered the bloodiest top 5 in history according to the Sportsman edition.
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It is reported by the “Klitschko Brotherhood”.
The fight between Klitschko and Lewis took place on June 21, 2003 and was the last in the British race.
In the third round, Lewis cut the Ukrainian over the left eye, causing severe bleeding. Vitali Klitschko did not want to end the fight and continued to box, but after the sixth round, the referee was forced to stop the fight due to this cut and awarded the Ukrainian a technical knockout.
The five bloodiest battles in history also included the clashes between Chuck Wepner and Sonny Liston (1970), Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield (1997), Rocky Marciano and Ezard Charles (1954), as well as Denis Lebedev and Guillermo Jones (2013). .
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Danil sles
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