How would Lennox fair against today's top heavyweight champions/contenders? Would he reign supreme? For arguments sake let's put him H2H with... Joshua...Wilder... Parker... Fury... Ortiz and Povetkin. Thoughts?
Lewis stops them all, there are levels to this game. Lewis vs Wilder will be Lewis vs Golota all over again. Clinical blast out. Wilder is the only current HW to have no balls though and will find any way to duck Lewis whilst still claim to be the "baddest man on the planet". I remember that video from a few years ago where Lewis was giving WIlder a lesson on throwing jabs, nice to see an ATG showing an amateur how to improve.
He's hugely underrated in our country. I was rewatching the Mercer fight earlier and wondered how people think he'd fair against today's lot Especially Joshua. Joshua is like the 2nd coming of Jesus here in the UK lol. I totally agree by the way. Lewis does a demolition job on all of them.
I don't think that Povetkin would have stayed on his feet after 4-5 round with Lewis in his prime. Povetkin would have eaten all of Lewis's uppercuts.
I think Lewis cleans up, pretty much. Povetkin a couple of years ago would have been his toughest match, and I might pick a green version of AJ over a green version of Lewis. that's the worst I could say of him. Fury can box better but he's got no power and Lewis isn't scared of letting hands go like the mentally ill version of Wlad was.
I actually think the current crop is pretty talented but Lewis would beat them all. If it was a murderer's row type situation where he fought them 100 times, he would win 98.
A prime and fit Fury would be an interesting matchup (I am not saying Lewis wouldnt win) but if we are being honest, Fury moves unusually well for such a big guy and it would just be interesting to see how Lewis would deal with that.
He would need more power in his offence imo to deal with Lewis imo, I could see Lewis being wreckless to get him out of there, not really concerned about anything and turning it into a dogfight with the fleeting Fury !
A prime and fit Fury would embarrass Lewis. TBH, the 6’9 behemoth with the reach of a gorilla and the hand speed of a light-heavy would be a tall order for any top 10 ATG heavyweight. TBH, I think a prime and fit Joshua and Wilder would be a tall order for any top 10 ATG heavyweight.
I'd pick him against them all. I guess prime Fury would be the most difficult challenge as a mobile / fast guy of that reach/size is something Lewis never saw before. A guy like Joshua has a puncher's chance too I suppose. But still, if I have to pick, Lennox KOs them all.
The juiced up (imo) Povetkin Ya I think so too. I think Furys lack of firepower would be huge here....