Who faced more punchers Lewis or Ali?

Just when I thought I'd seen it all, I've seen people argue Lewis fought more punchers than Ali.

Ali fought three hardest punchers of all time in Liston (2x), Shavers, and Foreman.

He also fought:
Joe Frazier 3X
Ron Lyle,
Jerry Quarry 2X
Zora Folley
Cleveland Williams
Bob Foster
Floyd Patterson 2X
Mac Foster
Alfredo Evangelista
George Chuvalo 2X
Oscar Bonavena
Ken Norton 3X
Joe Bugner 2X
Chuck Wepner
Henry Cooper 2X
Sonny Banks, etc. All of these guys could bang.

 

Lennox Lewis

1. Vitali Klitscko
2. David Tua
3. Hasim Rahman
4. Michael Grant
5. Shannon Briggs
6. Andrew Golata
7. Razor Ruddock
8. Gary Mason
9. Mike Tyson
10. Evander Holyfield
11. Oliver McCall
12. Tommy Morrison
13. Frank Bruno
14. Mike Weaver
15. Ray Mercer
16. Lionel Butler
17. Phil Jackson
18. Tony Tucker
19. Zeljko Mavrovic
20. Michael Simuwelu.

Muhammad Ali:

1. Earnie Shavers
2. George Foreman
3. Joe Frazier
4. Sonny Liston
5. Floyd Patterson
6. Ken Norton
7. Mac Foster
8. Ron Lyle
9. Henry Cooper
10. Archie Moore
11. Trevor Berbick
12. Oscar Bonavena
13. Jerry Quarry
14. Bob Foster
15. Cleveland Williams

ANSWER: Lennox Lewis..

 

If the thread question is about who fought "more" than the above statement is irrelevant and also opinion based.

 

Comparing guys like a debilitated Cleveland Williams, Zora Folley, overblown cruiser Jerry Quarry, reluctant Joe Bugner and light heavy Bob Foster to the monsters that Lewis faced is the height of intellectual dishonesty... at least for today... so far.

 

You're not even listing all the punchers Ali fought while listing unknown boxers who weren't known for their punching power (or anything else for that matter)

 

I'll give you that, it was irrelevant saying it. I only said it because some people tried arguing Lewis and Tyson fought harder than Ali previously. But you're right, it's completely irrelevant to the thread.

Also Liston, Foreman, and Shavers are widely recognized as being the hardest punchers of all time.

 

Ali faced more powerful punchers than Lewis. Even Magoo said it. Anyways that's irrelevant because it's quantity not quality.

 

Lewis.

Ali has 3 distinguished punchers on his resume - Liston, Shavers and Foreman. He faced some other hard-hitting heavyweights like Lyle and Patterson, but they were a notch below in terms of power.

Lewis faced 5-10 opponents that I'd classify with the trio mentioned above, along with a plethora of other power-punchers.

 

I said he fought a select "few" who were better in "quality" for some reason or another, i.e, Legacy, Skill, or otherwise. As for weather or not they were more "powerful", that's subject to debate as raw power is virtually impossible to measure.

 

Lewis.



Norton
Chuvalo
Evangelista
Bugner
Wepner
Bob Foster at heavyweight
Folley
Quarry
Bonavena
Banks

Do not belong on a list of top echelon punchers.
Evangelista
Bugner
Folley
Chuvalo
Don't belong on any list of serious punchers.

 

It must be some new and amazing discovery that Alfredo Evangelista, Joe Bugner, Chuck Wepner and Zora Folley were punchers.

 

Lewis faced more.

 

Thank you.

 

Evander holyfield was absolutely not a puncher

 

You'd think so, but then you realize he stopped Tyson, Douglas, and Moorer.