Hier gibt es interessante Infos:
The Man Who "Knocked Vitali Klitschko Out"...What Really Happened!
When quizzed about it, WBC Heavyweight Champion Klitschko allegedly asked,
“Who’s Pele Reid?”, and when he was reminded that Pele was supposed to have KO’d him in a kickboxing match,
Klitschko answered,
“It was so long ago that I forgot all about him. I lost that fight because of a kick to the thigh, not because of any punch. Lennox is the biggest puncher in the world and he couldn’t knock me out.”
Reid and Klitschko met in the finals. After a quiet opening round that saw both taking a good look at what the other had, Klitschko began to open up. The Ukrainian lifted his leg to kick, left it out there for too long (the kickboxing equivalent of pawing with the jab),
and Reid saw the opening, connecting with a perfect spinning kick that landed right on the tip of Klitschko’s jaw. The Ukrainian went down, and had it been regular Boxing or Kickboxing rules, there was no way there would have been any kind of ten-count. As it was, being a light-contact match, the ref just waved the fight off and Reid was the new European Champion.
With the help of an amateur video recorded by one of the members of the British team, I witnessed the knockout. The picture was perfect and there was no mistaking what had happened...Pele Reid knocked out Vitali Klitschko, not with a kick to the leg, but with a bonafide spinning kick to the jaw. Don’t believe me? I took this excerpt from the
January 1993 issue of Martial Arts Illustrated, where a brief mention is given to the fight by writer Peter Lewis:
“Our fourth Gold came from Pele Reid when, after some superb fights, he met Klitschko of CIS (Russia) in the finals of the 89 plus category...an opponent even taller than Pele! With little trouble, Pele KO’d the huge Russian in round two with a reverse spinning kick to take the gold.”
Klitschko, as we all know, went on to win the WBC Heavyweight Title given up by Lennox Lewis on his retirement, which he still defends to this day.
But next time Vitali talks about never having been knocked out, remember that little-known Pele Reid once achieved what Lennox Lewis couldn’t (albeit with a kick instead of a punch), and flattened the Ukrainian in two rounds.
http://www.boxnews.com.ua/news.php?id=1770&lng=en
Es war mit Sicherheit nur Glück da Reid später im K-1 4 Kämpfe bestritt und alle verlor, darunter gegen Chalid "Die Faust". Aber es geht hier um was anderes.
- Vitali ging schon mal KO
- Für die Leute welche behaupten den Kampf gesehen zu haben (bei Youtube, nem Freund oder sonst wo) wird die Argumentationsluft langsam dünn. Wie man sieht mussten selbst die Typen von "Boxnews" auf ein Amateur-Video zurückgreifen welches einer des britischen Teams aufnahm. Und dieses Video war garantiert nie bei Youtube (ich fing schon Anfang 2005 an danach zu suchen, bis heute ohne Erfolg).
bereits Anfang 2013 bei Boxing Forum 24 aka Eastside Boxing Forum gefunden, und es wurde hier dann veröffentlicht.
