Byline: Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Now it's Vitali Klitschko, the 6-foot-7 heavyweight, who is the hottest boxing attraction around, as evidenced by the screaming crowd of 10,823 who braved a snowstorm to cheer his every move against Johnson on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.
Klitschko needed a good performance to show that his June 21 fight with Lennox Lewis was no fluke. In that fight, Klitschko was leading on all three scorecards before the fight was stopped after six rounds with a bad cut over his eye. On Saturday, Klitschko knocked down the once-beaten Johnson twice before stopping him at 2:54 of the second round with a thudding …
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