Is Lennox Lewis's record & resume grossly, disgustingly, extremely suspect & overrated?

Lennox Lewis will go down as a top 5 ATG HW champion.

This was a good attempt at trolling but it fell short. It wasn’t entertaining enough for me.

Although your exclusion of Vitali in his best wins was a skilful move.

 

It's easy to pick apart anyone's resume if you look at with a biased eye and ignore certain realities of what happened at the time.

For example Ali...

Liston - Old, small, never beat a great, best win Patterson

Patterson - KO'ed twice in 1 round by Liston, really a light heavyweight

Cooper - Paper skin, career record looks like a journeymen as had many losses

Williams - Shot, literally shot, man was lucky to be alive

Terrell - Paper champion, lost his next 2 fights.

Frazier - Past prime already beaten by Foreman

Foreman - Crude, poor stamina, beat Frazier but Frazier by then was past prime, look at how Young beat him, Lyle almost beat him too.

So Lewis' resume is overrated if you look at it with a biased view, if you look at it fairly and in context of the time and take account of the circumstances he has one of the better resumes of an ATG heavyweight. Would of been better if Bowe hadn't ducked him and King hadn't of frozen him out for so long.

 

You're saying because newspapers didnt say someones record was padded in 90's then it simply cannot be true? Lol is that what I just read? You're entire argument is based on what a sports reporter at the times back in the 90's would and wouldnt print on the back page?

 

Lennox has a excellent resume but it does get overrated, the 90's era as a whole is overrated.

 

There's an argument to be made that Lewis fought guys that were past their best.

There's also an argument to be made that he lacked consistency. If he'd never fought Rahman and McCall nobody would pick them against him in fantasy matchups, yet they KHTFO.

On the other hand, the resume of every great HW can be dissected like this, and that includes Ali. He beat who he beat, and those are some weighty names.

I personally have him top 5 HW of all time, probably top 3 and some would put up a decent argument for #1.

 

Lewis was going through a crappy period when he beat both Bruno and Tucker, then after he lost to McCall Steward who trained McCall for his fight v Lewis came in and helped Lewis`s style out, Lennox was still a work in progress when he fought McCall for a second time and in the Mercer fight before that, if a prime Lewis fought the awful version of Tyson that beat Bruno he would of stopped him easily, Bruno was nowhere near the level of a prime Lewis. Toney fought Holy in 2004, Lewis fought Holy in 1999.

 

In both his losses he fought far better in the rematches.

 

Yes because reporting was a lot more nastier than it is now and had this been true they would not have hesitate to make it known They would have not just wanted to pass it on to boxing fans but all that bought their rags at the time

 

It's easy to pick a resume apart like this, you could literally do it with ANY fighter in history. What a waste of your own time.

 

Respectfully disagree man.

With the internet and casuals like Stephen A Smith, I feel like boxers are ridiculed waaaay more today.

I doubt anyone was saying about Rocky Marciano 'WHO HAS HE BEAT? WHO HAS HE ACTUALLY BEAT THO!?' people crowded around there radios, he won his fights and next day on the back page there would be a headline 'ROCKY DOES IT AGAIN'.. so people only knew what they were told, just like you said. why would newspapers headline 'GGG BEATS CAB DRIVER AGAIN' they would never. But in this day in age, we have slo motion, 4 different camera angles etc we are able to say 'oh it was just a flash knockdown' but back in the day, the radios and newspapers would say 'KNOCKED DOWN AND NEARLY KO'D IN THE 6TH'

It's pretty brutal to be a sportman in the publics eye these days. But they get paid a lot more and theres a new star every year. Would of been great to win a few fights back in the day. Ali would be picked apart personality wise on twitter now. And his fights would be ridiculed way more.

 

TKO 6

 

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Rahman vs Sanders was a finial eliminator to fight Lewis..Rahman beat Sanders , therefor Lewis fought the mandatory challenger who was Rahman .