Prime Bob Foster vs Prime Lennox Lewis

Foster lost to every hwt he ever faced. He did not have the mobility not physical strength to handle hwts.....any hwt.

Tunney beat every hwt he ever faced and won the worlds hwt championship. Plus he is regarded to this very day as one of if not the best technical fighter ever as hwt champion.

Huge difference. Try to understand and learn.

 

Lewis by ko.

Foster lost every time he faced a ranked HW fighter.

 

You are completely missing the point. Tunney proved he could beat hwts. Every hwt beat Foster. Also styles make fights. Tunneys skill and style allowed him to beat hellacious hwt punchers like Dempsey. Foster more than likely would lose to all the hwts Tunney best.

 

Tunney is better than Foster in my book anyways.

The point is these things are always case by case.

Mayweather is a former SFW who managed to out point the current lineal MW champion.

Pacquiao is a former FLW who managed to knock out the previous liberal MW champion.

That being said Wilfredo Gomez struggled when he put 4 pounds on.

We know for a fact that Foster was not good when he moved up in weight. We also know for a fact that Tunney beat every man he faced.

Could Tunney replicate strategies used by Ali to mimick his success? Potentially so. Foreman lost to Jimmy Young and Ali so I can see why some favour Tunney there, I personally wouldn't but I can see it.

Valuev single handedly proved that there is more to boxing than being the bigger man.

 

I don't think that Foster would have had much more success at heavyweight in Tunney’s era to be honest.

You might argue that he was unlucky to share an era with Ali and Frazier, but I don't think that he was unlucky to share an era with Jones and Terrell.

These are the kind of fighters that you have to be able to beat in any era at heavyweight.

We could cite Jack Delaney as a great ligthheavyweigthn from Tunney's era, who was unable to make the transition to heavyweight.

We could also point to light heavyweights who were much more successful than Foster at heavyweight, who were contemporaneous with him.

Some fighters just make the transition better than others.

 

Well Michael Spinks done ok with super sized heavyweights, but was demolished by the smaller Tyson.
Styles etc are also a factor.

 

super sized hws? who? the skinny 6'6 shot cooney?

 

The 238 pound Cooney.
Sorry I must have been talking about someone else.

 

the same conney that was 224 in his prime in shape at 6'6? at 238 looked **** with his fragile frame of spaggethi.? physically the weakest 6'6 guy in boxing history

 

To be honest, fighters who have had a significant career at light heavyweight are almost never successful against genuinely elite superheavyweights.

That is where the size gap becomes insurmountable in most cases.

That aside, such fighters have penetrated to the upper levels of the heavyweight division, in every single era.

 

There is a real stylistic advantage every SHW has, the jab and grab game.

It means you need to be quick enough to win on the outside or strong enough to win on the inside.

If you have a quick strong SHW who can jab and grab its gonna be impossible for a sub 200 man to win.

 

That being said I do think Dempsey is an exception to that rule.

I think he does Wlad within 2 rounds based on the Willard fight.

 

I think that what is impossible for a light heavyweight, is just about doable for a small cruiserweight, provided that he has certain equalizers.

By that I mean god given finishing skills!