Will the 37 year old fat version of Lewis had beaten Wlad's best wins?

The Lewis that was staggering around and going toe to toe against a Prime Vitali. Would he beat:

Povetkin/Pulev/David Haye/Chris Byrd/Sultan/Ruslan?

 

Prime Lewis would have been a big favorite against everyone(including Wlad himself) but how would that slow whale version of Lewis do against these guys?
I think it's interesting because Lewis looked very limited and unmotivated against Vitali but still managed to show incredible flashes of his ATG skills. Huge upper cut. Great jabs. Big right hands. He was just very slow and his reaction was shot to ****.

 

yes

 

lewis would struggle at 38 with byrd, haye and povetkin, but he would find a way. the other he would destroy, they are pointless fatboys undeserving of a title shot.

 

he wanted nothing to do with byrd so that answers part of the question. He'd also struggle with haye and povetkin, Im inclined to think haye is too quick and too awkward, povetkin also would be too quick to catch cleanly often enough plus he has a good chin, 38 year old LL would probably lose those bouts, or at least they re on equal terms, but he'd beat Sultan. i dont think prime LL would necessarily beat all of these comfortably either, btw.

 

how does it answer the question?

surely it poses the question, if superHW lewis never fought MW/LHW Byrd?
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Pulev what a good win ! He could beat the 41 years old Thompson
by points.
Pulev is a ****ing nobody.
Haye? The mediocre old C. Thompson destroyed him.
(W. Klitschko couildn't.Shame.)
Byrd? A ****ing joke
Ibragimov proved nothing in his short carrier.
Chagaev? Unathletic, featherfisted.
Povetkin ? Mediocre.
LAME list.

 

not sure, he was avoiding the speedy guys like Byrd and Sanders certainly has a punchers chance Ibragimov, Povetkin?, Thompson...Chambers was another speedy guy, Haye has a punchers chance if he took a chance and McCline had his moments

 

I think some of the smaller slick boxer types whom Wlad faced might have given an aged Lewis some problems. Chris Byrd has already been mentioned. Chagaev and Chambers are other possibilities as well. Not sold on him winning or losing these fights one way or the other however.

 

Is this post worth the calories you burned typing it out?

 

I agree with this.

 

:rofl

 

Pretty easily, not that that downgrades Wlad, Lewis was just that good.

 

If he can land he can win.

I'm pretty sure anyone of 5-6 punches Lewis landed against Vitali would have stopped, or serious hurt, many of Wlad's opponents. If he landed that upper cut on any of Wlad's opponents the fight would be over. Hell even his jab had Vitali stopping in his tracks. His jab during that fight was one of the most powerful jabs I've ever seen.

 

If Lewis was able to get the win against Vitali at his worst then none of these guys would stand much of a chance. Lewis was just on a different level and the only way they would have any hope would be a hail Mary punch in the same way as Rahman and McCall. Ironically it would only be Haye with a chance of scoring the upset due to his great punching power but he would have to hope that Lewis was pretty unfocused for this to happen.