Who ranks higher...Larry Holmes or Lennox Lewis?

Holmes.

 

I have Holmes higher, but I perfectly understand arguing for Lennox, here.

 

Larry reigned from 78-85 and lewis from 99-04.

Lewis did nothing special in 98, certainly nothing worthy of surpassing a holy who'd stopped tyson twice and mm once.

 

Not an easy pick, but I'll lean towards Holmes.. Neither man's opposition was stellar per say, but I wouldn't call either resume crap either... Both fought a fair number of middle of the road to decent opponents, so I'll just call it even... The obvious tie breaker for me, would be that Lewis suffered a bad loss to a fringe type contender at a time when he supposed to be reaching his peak.. Holmes never lost to anyone of that calibur when in his prime... In fact, at the age of 44 he faced the exact same opponent shortly after Lewis was beaten by him, and fought him to a close decision that could have gone either way... Asside from that, I'd say they're ratings should border one another's. I won't count Lewis's defeat to Rahman as Lewis was the same age as Holmes when he lost to Spinks. Both men should have been credited as avenging those defeats however, had it not been for poor officiating in Holmes Vs Spinks II...

 

i was thinking about this the other day, im going to start a thread on it

 

Holmes is my number 4, Lennox my number 5.

The two can easily be switched tho

 

i usually rank lewis higher , but i can bare them being swapped .

 

I got Lewis higher but there's very little between them.

 

Holmes.

 

Holmes ranks higher.. Lewis beats him h2h

 

Lewis.

 

Holmes ranks higher

 

I generally find myself rating Holmes higher. I think he's a better H2H fighter also.

 

Lewis has a much better body of work.