Anthony Joshua vs Lennox Lewis

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Anthony vs Lennox Lewis

  1. Aj

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  2. Lewis

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  1. Ktbffh2018

    Ktbffh2018 New Member Full Member

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    I agree, Lewis is a legend. I agree, Joshua was a drug dealer. Well done Sherlock! And even more so well done for Joshua for turning his life around and going from a ‘failed drug dealer’ to a multiple heavyweight champ! Soon to be undisputed champ when they stop running
     
  2. C.J.

    C.J. Boxings Living Legend revered & respected by all Full Member

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    As Lennox himself will tell you Ali is the GREATEST!!! BUT Lennox is right behind him
    Lennox in his prime destroys the robotic Joshua
     
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    Luis Fernando Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Lennox Lewis is GROSSLY, and I mean GROSSLY overrated. Anthony Joshua would absolutely OBLITERATE Lennox Lewis in my opinion.
     
  4. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Fury is much harder to hit than AJ and harder to hit than anyone AJ has fought.
     
  5. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Ali`s resume was far better than Lewis`s.
     
  6. archdeacon99

    archdeacon99 Member Full Member

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    small amount of time? It's taken Joshua 5 years to fight 22 fights at age 29 to be one fight from undisputed. Lewis had 22 fights in 3 years at age 27 was one fight from Undisputed after beating Ruddock but Bowe ducked. Lewis is a top 5 all time great in anyone's book, jealous lol!
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    Analysis ofof Lewis road to the 22nd fight gaining him his Undisputed shot which Bowe ducked out on.
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    Prime Lewis would box circles around Joshua and stop him, although Joshua isn’t the finished article just yet.
     
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    N17 Loyal Member Full Member

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    Go and look at who Lewis was fighting up until his 22nd fight and then maybe calculate that in to any answer.


    If you are going to just look at peaks and/or best performances then of course it would heavily favour Lewis because we've seen his entire career and defining fights, we have no idea what Joshua will do in the second half of his career and he has yet to have those career defining fights.

    If you look at them both after 22 professional fights then it will heavily favour AJ.

    Lewis didn't have a unification fight until his 36th fight (I believe) and drew and then finally unified in his 37th fight.. Joshua has already completed that achievement.

    Joshua won a world title much earlier than Lewis did, lots of things Joshua has done that Lewis took a long time to do.

    But in my opinion we will only get a fair and true comparison when Joshua retires.
     
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    I'm a Joshua fan but I've got Lewis as the best HW ever, at least in terms of H2H.

    A young 22 fight Lewis was chasing people round the ring. Not impossible for Joshua to win if Lewis comes at him but Lewis just better everywhere, except maybe power. Lewis KO/TKO rd 10.
     
  11. Ktbffh2018

    Ktbffh2018 New Member Full Member

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    Lewis is an ATG, I take nothing away from how good Lewis was, I’m stating that he is questioning AJ and AJ has 4 belts at 22 fights and weren’t it 37 fights when he was unified with 4 belts? The same number Joshua has and would be undisputed had a certain loud mouth actually manned up and fought him. I seem like I’m right up AJs arse but I don’t care, the hate he eats on here is not merited in any way
     
  12. Ktbffh2018

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    But would you also say Joshua is the 2nd if not joint first out of all HW in power? And that being said I believe AJ has the most power and accuracy combined out of all of fury’s opponents so while I believe fury has the best chance of beating AJ out of all HW, I still believe AJ will stop him, either way the top 2 active HWs are both British so win-win
     
  13. Kyrie

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    I much prefer watching AJ up to this point in his career but i have Lewis winning 10 times out of 10, even before Steward. Maybe Joshua will go the same root as Lewis and patch up his flaws/figure out how to be formidable despite them, whenever he suffers a loss but i don't see the Joshua right now beating Lennox.
     
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    I'm not sure "before Steward", you only have to watch Bruno Vs Lewis to see the problems Bruno caused him and Bruno was a lot more stiff and robotic than AJ is.

    But I agree with you the best Lewis we saw beats the best AJ we've seen so far.. without doubt.
     
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    The Hot Take KING is #LoggedOn
     
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