How does Lewis resume stack up in heavyweight history?

Maybe he did. Larry Beat Mercer easily. Easiest win of his career. Mercer was robbed of a win against Lewis. Holmes went the distance with prime Holyfield. Holmes had a competitive fight with McCall.

There was a chance that Old man Homes could beat Lewis and Lenny would risk it.

 

"Robbed". A word used far too easily by some people. A true robbery is when a fighter wins a fight by a very large margin and also dominates the rounds that he wins, yet doesn't get the decision. Thats what I'd call being "robbed". Not the case with Lewis-Mercer.

 

I did post an interview recently where Holmes stated that Lewis told Larry his jab was too good and he didnt want to mess with him.

 

Tyson and Evander were past prime but still dangerous, McCall loss first time he was green but he was lucky the ref stopped it when he did because he was on wobbly legs and could have gotten hurt or ruined. Rahman KO was another loss that I would say Lennox was not best prepared. Lewis had a great offense, one of the best but never KO'd a man after the 8th round and never got off the floor to win. Good win over Vitali but a hit and hold tactic opened up the cut and he was fortunate that cut opened because it gave him energy and I still had Vitali ahead but they had to stop it.

Overall a great 1-8 round offensive fighter who was tough and mean but once hurt badly or dropped the record would show he did not recover well. he had a short career with about 40 fights and at 37 (Vlads age) he should have fought Vitali because the fight would have been huge...to his credit he retired at a good age but did he know he had a small chance in a rematch with Vitali and therefore turned down the biggest purse of his career a lot of Big pluses but some large minuses

 

top 5. maybe 4.

 

Comparable with anybody with a consensus rating in the top 5-10 ATG HW region.

But IMO, doesn't even have the best resume among Heavyweights in his own era.

 

???????? Tyson is bottom top 10 hw

 

Tru dat... but if you want to get super-technical. Lewis was the best Heavyweight of his era (by default) seeing as though he wasn't really apart of the Tyson/Holyfield era. Both guys were undisputed champs in their respective weight divisions while simultaneously, Lewis was fighting in 3 rd'ers with headgear. And both Tyson & Holy were largely considered to be near the end of their careers while Lewis was near his peak. Bowe is the CO-ATG of Lewis's era, and Lewis refused to fight him (turned down a career high payday 3 times).

But excluding Holyfield, i think Lewis has the best Heavyweight resume of the past 30-some years. And that's including Larry Holmes. But that's just purely resume, when you take EVERYTHING into consideration, especially the KO loses to sub-par op during his prime. I think Holyfield, Tyson & Holmes have a better overall body of work. And all deserve to be rated a slot or 2 above Lewis.

 

That´s nice haha. That´s 1 of the 2 times I can recall I understand your post fully, Frankie boy.

 

How can Lewis accuse me of running? He is just a paper champion... Jeff Powell
Last updated at 00:00 05 June 1998
"He calls himself a champion but he never had to beat a champion in the ring to get his title.
'And who's he fought compared to me? Ray Mercer beat him but was robbed of the decision."-Evander Holyfield


Lewis shows his true color: yellow
Publication:The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) Publish date:May 19, 1996 Author:Ron Borges, Globe Staff
"Only five days after needing a gun and a mask to get out of New York with a decision over Ray Mercer..."


Lewis No Champion In Win Over Mercer


Boxing: In tuneup for proposed Tyson fight, Lewis hears boos after stumbling to decision.


May 11, 1996|From Associated Press


"NEW YORK — First Lennox Lewis took punches from Ray Mercer then he was booed by the fans at Madison Square Garden, after the former WBC heavyweight champion stumbled to a majority decision over Mercer on Friday night."

 

It's called being a fan. I'm a fan. Was Bowe perfect? No. Was he good? yes.

 

Surely Lewis's win ( some would say wins )over Holy himself were at least as good as Holy's over Tyson ?

 

Lewis has a tip-top resume, no doubt about it. Top 3-5 resume for me easily

 

It's the resume of an ATG and Top 5 heavyweight of all time.

Quite simple really.

 

Yes he is another Yank who tries to rewrite Bowe history and tries to put down Lewis.

Pathetic.