Dempsey vs Lewis

The first time Dempsey gets in range to punch he hits the canvas and that's that.

 

Lewis nails him with that uppercut whenever he gets in close.

 

Based on what that happened in the real world?

 

Based on Dempsey being devoid of much skill and Lewis being 4 stone heavier, a bigger puncher and one of the best of all time.

 

^^

 

Specific predictions of this kind have to be based on some sort of tangible evidence from the real world.

The only occasion that we know of where Dempsey was stopped, was a fight early in his career when he was a regional level fighter, which might have been a dive.

This means that we don’t really know exactly what it would take to stop a prime Dempsey, much less whether it was likely to occur in a specific manner.

On the other side of the equation, while Lewis would definitely be the best person that Dempsey had ever fought, I don’t think that we can definitely say that he would be a harder puncher than anybody that Dempsey had fought.

So in summary, your prediction is the worst kind of unsupported speculation.

 

If you think that Dempsey is devoid of much skill, you simply don't understand him.

 

Ive seen the fight with Willard and thought it was awful.the 2 fights with Tunney showed a better but slower fighter.
Luis Firpo managed to put him on the deck so keeping him there would have been easy for Louis, Lewis, Holmes, Foreman, Liston, Frazier, Bowe, Tyson, Holyfield, Witherspoon etc etc

 

Having seen films of his fights and I doubt you sparred with him or saw him live.

 

Saying Dempsey improved after Willard is nonsense. The converse is true.

The thing is with Lews, he isn't just bigger than Dempsey, he's a greatly skilled fighter himself and very multi dimensional.

He can jab and move, he can seek and destroy, he can frustrate and spoil he can go to war he can really do it all.

I do think Dempsey is a better fighting machine p4p but not by much and not enough to overcome the weigh disparity he would be facing.

Dempsey rolling a jab and landing a huge right hook left hook combo wouldn't exactly surprise anyone but Dempsey winning rounds where he doesn't score a knockdown would be a surprise in my mind.

Basically I think Dempsey has a punchers chance and that's not enough for me to pick on.

 

its a mismatch and unfair on Dempsey's legacy

 

It's absolutely not unfair to compare champions throughout history.

If there's one thing Dempsey proved it's size doesn't beat him alone.

To beat Dempsey you have to be better than him. Or of similar skill but a lot bigger.

Lewis beats Dempsey but not in a mismatch.