The Best Heavyweight Since Ali?

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  1. WillRose_

    WillRose_ New Member Full Member

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    Wanting to know more opinions on the best boxers...

    Most regard Ali as the greatest heavyweight of all time (and if not, the greatest of the last 50 years) so I was wondering who people reckon the best since is?

    For me, I'd go Lennox Lewis.
     
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    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Tie between Lennox Lewis and Wladamir Klitschko
     
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    Lewis
     
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    :deal
     
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    Cinderella Man Deleebr 'eem into mahands Full Member

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    Lennox Lewis.
     
  8. Mr Butt

    Mr Butt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Holmes
     
  9. Cormega

    Cormega Quadruple OG Full Member

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    Lewis for me. Put him in with all the others listed and I believe he could beat every one of them at his absolute best.
     
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    Imperial1 VIP Member Full Member

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    A prime. Holmes beats him and so does a prime Holyfield hell an old one gave him a tough fight in the rematch
     
  11. Cormega

    Cormega Quadruple OG Full Member

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    Maybe. Maybe not.
     
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    lewis, and the K bros all about a tie.
     
  13. Cormega

    Cormega Quadruple OG Full Member

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    Nope. An old, fat, semi retired Lewis beat a prime Vitali K and would have shattered his little brother's glass mandible into a thousand pieces had someone not beat him to it. :deal
     
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    :lol: cool story. Lewis chin makes Wlad's look like granite. Lewis got 1 punch KO'd twice in 44 pro fights, Wlad has only been legitimately knocked out once in 65 pro fights and has never finished a fight off of his feet.
    Anyways, they both are legends neither one has to be diminished in favor of the other.
     
  15. Delicious

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    Between Lewis and Holmes.
    Leaning towards Holmes though.

    Holyfield a G but his losses to his contemporaries rule him out of contention.