When was Lennox Lewis in his prime?

Absolute prime and making weight easy with the great speed he once had.

Vs Golota.

 

between the Golota and Rahman fights

 

On July 21st, 2003... When he scored his legendary TKO6 :deal

 

Tua, Holyfield I or the Golota fight showed us 3 versions of when Lennox was at his best in my eyes. The Golota fight re-established that offensive beast that we saw in the Ruddock fight, but showed a much more intelligent offensive machine, taking his time and picking his shots. The Tua fight showed his brilliant footwork and defensive boxing, being able to avoid Tua for the majority of the fight while tagging him on his way in. Some call it boring, which is a fair point, but at the end of the day, that was the best way to approach the fit against someone wi the power of Tua. Finally in the Holyfield fight we saw the boxer side of Lewis. Pinpoint accuracy always established with the jab and despite the draw, it was clear who the winner really was as Lewis was able to out work and Outland a past prime, but still an incredibly good Evander Holyfield.

 

It's hard to pinpoint exactly when Lewis was at his best. He slowed down a bit as his career progressed (compare the Ruddock fight to his more flat-footed style in his later title fights), but he grew physically stronger as his career progressed.

In terms of intangibles, he seemed to have a confidence and aura after the second Holyfield fight, and if I had to pick one fight I'd say against Botha was the best Lewis we ever saw. He looked like the prototype of the 21st century heavyweight, with every tool in his armoury. Bizarrely, he followed it up with one of his worst performances against Rahman. Supreme confidence crossed over into arrogance, and cost him his title.

Whenever you consider Lewis to be in his absolute prime, I don't think there was a huge difference from the Morrison fight through to Botha.

 

1997 upto around 2000 was his absolute best I think.

 

i think this was his prime time :yep

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This was before he stopped Vitali right?

 

when he was in his prime.

 

97 to around 2001 or so.

 

yeah he was KTFO5 with one punch by rahman and one punch tko2 crawling on the floor. :deal

 

wow! and an old heavy version of that guy beat Vitali?!?!

 

voted other for Holyfield 2

 

yeah he cuts vitali and than ducking the rematch, that everybody wanted to see. he runs into retirement like a ***, because he knew that he would lose.