Lennox Lewis vs Gene Tunney

I can't see it.

Tunney would be on the back foot constantly and I think he gets caught eventually.

 

I'd agree Tunney would probably be on the backfoot quite a bit but that doesn't mean he couldn't be effective while doing so. Lewis also blew hot and cold and if he had an off night things might get interesting. His fight against Billups, for example, was a stinker.

 

A little birdy told me you have now watched Mike Tyson: The Fallen Champ over 87 times, Fergy.

 

88 me old China !

 

I’ve always said that Lewis would struggle with an opponent who could really move ... I mean hell ...isn’t that the reason we think Muhammad Ali could beat him ?

 

Because "Jack Dempsey woulda knocked them both out the same night." - Gene Tunney after Norton - Holmes, Caeasars Palace 9/6/1978

 

LENNOX

 

Tunney might be able to make things tricky, but would get broken down and stopped IMO.

He was a great Light Heavyweight, not really a great Heavyweight though.

 

On questions like this, I think the assumption is that we are talking about the best version of both fighters.

 

I imagine this looking like Herbie hyde vs Bowe except over alot sooner.

Lewis by a brutal stoppage before the 3rd round

 

I think Tunney's chin is being sold short, he recovered very well from a really nasty series of punches by Dempsey, including multiple on the way down.

 

Like Willard would get up seven times for round two after 49 unanswered punches against Lennox Lewis, getting punched in the squat as soon as he got up??

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