Prime Jim Jefferies vs Prime Lennox Lewis

I guess the issue is, that we know exactly what Lewis was, but we don't really know what Jeffries was.

The best plausible interpretation of Jeffries, and the worst plausible interpretation of Jeffries, are two very different creatures.

 

In the head to head sense, the best possible interpretation of Jeffries is a poor man's Frans Botha.

 

The best possible interpretation of Jeffries might have destroyed Lewis and Holyfield in the same night!

Just assume that he was the monster that people said he was when he retired.

 

Lmao you got mad Janitor

 

No, I am just reading what people wrote during his career, and outlining all of the possibilities!

 

The people who said this had only Corbett, Sully, and Fitz for comparison. And they almost universally loathed any fighter a shade darker than Derry Lilly.

I think a poor man's Botha is quite an endorsement. But again, that is best case scenario.

 

OK, you obviously assume that those men were worse than those who came after them, and you might well be right.

Let's suppose that they were not.

Now let's say that Jeffries really was this head to head monster, bigger than most people before the steroid era, as lithe and quick as a Tommy Ryan, who had now become as clever as Jim Corbett?

Wouldn't that translate into him being pretty good head to head?

That is essentially your best case scenario!

 

Lewis would destroy Jeffries

 

I like you both as a poster and a person.... But this topic isn’t thread worthy.

 

Want to match Corbett,Sharkey,and Fitz with Lennox and see how they doi?

 

That's my opinion.

 

Pretty good head to head against a big middleweight who was 37 & 39,pretty good against a big light heavy who was coming out of retirement and hadn't won a fight for years ,pretty good against a 5foot 8inch 185lbs face first brawler.Against a 6foot 5 inch 245lbs monster who could both both and punch? He gets executed inside 5 rds less if Lewis is in Grant/Ruddock mode.

 

Whom did they have to compare him to? Three previous champions.Jeffires was a big man in a very small pool of fighters feasting on older,smaller men,in modern times he would be that little guy,game as a pebble but entirely out of his depth with the giants of today as regards both size and skills.Trading on durability is permissible when you're fighting men 40/50lbs lighter,when you're conceding 30lbs,facing men in their prime its not such a smart tactical move.