Bowe would have crushed Lews in the early 90's

Bowe never would have beaten Lewis. Golota beat Bowe twice, easily, guess what lennox would have done....K.o.oooooooooo

 

By that logic, Bowe would have beaten Lewis just because Lewis lost to Rahman and McCall. :roll:

BTW, Bowe never lost to Golota.

 

You're right, of course - people are ALWAYS making up excuses for fighters. Lewis, though, seems like one of the few ATGs where people REALLY get all twisted up trying to justify why he's the only top level HW champ to get starched twice by second-rate fighters, or why he never fought any of the top guys of his era like Holyfield or Tyson when they were even close to their best, and never fought Bowe at all.:hey

 

Yawn......

Holyfield never fought Tyson at his best either....and he fought Bowe at his best and was found wanting 2 out of 3. He also got stopped by a fat ex middleweight, a far more embarrasing loss than either of Lewis's.

Now spin that :hi:

 

In the early 90's when Bowe was hungry he had a good chance of beating every other heavy out there, including Lewis. Doesn't matter who beat who in the amatures - and it wasn't a knockout it was a ref stoppage. And many other fighters have lost to people in the amatures and gone on to beat them in the pros ie: Tyson, Mayweather, Mosley. Bowe was awesome for about 3 - 4 years. Unfortunately he pulled a ***** move and elected not to fight Lewis. Pity.

 

Lewis would be too much for Bowe at any point in Bowe's career.

 

Bowe would just have got his fat butt Ko'd AGAIN!!!!! And he knew it hence the ducking and renaging:admin :admin :admin

 

Because all 3 ducked Lewis. Bowe renaged and gave up the WBC belt coz he was scared of Lewis. Tyson (King) paid Lennox $4 mil to step aside and let him fight Holyfield first. We all know what happened then
When Lennox eventually got Holyfield and kicked his ass Eugenia Williams showed her complete lack of boxing knowledge and Larry O Conner freaked out and robbed Lewis One their best day NEITHER could beat Lewis :bbb :bbb :bbb :thumbsup :deal

 

Tough to say. It boils down to whether Bowe could work his way inside, because Lewis' jab and straight right were better, whereas Bowe was far superior inside. If Bowe can take what he has to in order to get inside, he could take it. If Bowe loses heart and decides it costs too much to take the fight where he needs it to be, Lewis stops him.

 

Anybody would have crushed Lewis in the 90's

 

Tyson and Bowe avoided Lewis for the easy money, but I don't see how Holyfield did.

Holyfield lost the title to Bowe in November 1992, 2 weeks after Lewis beat Ruddock. When he regained it from Bowe, his first defense was Moorer, whom I believe was the mandatory. Holyfield has maintained that his goal ever since the first Bowe loss was to be the undisputed champ, so he's got to fight mandatories in order to do this. Moorer beat Holyfield.

By the time Holyfield won a belt again versus Tyson, he gave Tyson an immediate rematch, then fought Moorer for the IBF belt. Then he fought IBF mandatory Vaughn Bean, then Lewis to unify the titles.

 

Bowe was easy to hit. Bowe NEVER faced a big puncher. Bowe lost to Lewis in the amatuers. Bowe chickened out rather than fight Lewis. Bowe was beaten silly by Andrew Golota. Little Evander Holyfield was able to put Bowe on the canvass... Short of landing a lucky punch, I see NOTHING to indicate that Bowe could defeat a truly great fighter like Lewis.
Bowe is a myth. He is not or was never anywhere near great. He's on the level of a Hasim Rahman, maybe lower. His whole rep is built of the fact that he had some exciting fights with Holyfield.

 

...........Yet so few did. :roll:

 

True.

Especially given the fact that Lewis lost so many times in the 90s (once), and Lewis was involved in so many close decisions (1, maybe 2).