Who has the better resume, Lennox Lewis or Wladimir Klitschko

Similar resumes in that "wow" marquee wins are thin. Lennox fought more shot American Legends, so people will autovote for him, but it's a close call. The best victory on his rez is ironically Vladdo's brother.

Klitschko probably a higher ranking ATG, Lennox probably slightly better resume.

 

Correct! I like Povetkin, he's skilled, courageous and gives it his all but, Evander Holyfield took Mike Tyson's soul and competed to the max against Lewis, Bowe, Moorer, Qawi, Mercer, Foreman, Holmes, Douglas, Dokes, Thomas, Cooper, admittedly, many of those guys were well past their best but, it's still a who's who of ATG's and H2H monsters.

Plus he was undisputed Cruiserweight and FOUR TIME Heavyweight Champion. To be honest, there's no comparison and I would favour the very best Holyfield to beat the very best Povetkin in an absolute war!

 

Vlad was either The Man, or pretty close to The Man for 15 years. Longevity, string of title defenses, skillset, willingness to take on all challengers at any age. Lennox's reign is marred by getting sparko'd by a single shot multiple times in his prime. Fighting a Tyson who'd been shot for 15 years means a lot to a lot of people, but nothing for boxing history.

 

Lewis is ahead imho, and mainly because of the Vitali win.

 

I always read the same things if some EE fighter is champ : weak era, overvalued, weak division.
It is absolutely useless waste of time to discuss there if some EE fighter is discussed.

Just in short: Lewis ducked rematch vs Vitaly and I do not gave a f**** about how good his career was.

 

You don't love them. Vitaly was so bad that Lewis retired after their fight. Proof how bad this Klit brothers era was.
Ofc I agree that some Wlad fights were boring octopuse. You do not value EE fighters.
All divisions if there is or was some champ from EE had " weak era ", " weak division ".

 

If Wlads era was weak than this one is abysmal.

 

Your friend does not know what he is talking about.

 

Lennox by far. Throughout his reign he regularly faced top condensers who at the top were being highly touted by the media elites. You can laugh and say they were overrated now , but at the time Lewis fought them the media had them propped up on a pedastle. These would include andrew Golota, david Tua, and to a lesser extent Michael Grant, who did have some doubters but was still undefeated.
By contrast, the only guys I can think of who were highly touted and considered dangerous at the time Wlad fought them were Sam Peter and David Haye.
Lennox took it step further by defeating the best from the upcoming generation when he TKOd vitali klitschko, where Wlad failed in both his attempts against the new dogs in town Fury and AJ.
And 1999 holyField was as good as anyone Wlad ever beat in my estimation .
Also two other points, Lewis avenged his defeats, where Wlad only did once, waiting for Brewster to get old and fat and have a bad eye before he would fight him again.
And lastly , Lewis was in exciting and entertaining fights, whereas Wlad was in snoozefests.
For these reasons and many more, Lewis is easily the better champion

 

Lewis only beat one prime undefeated fighter, that was Vitali. Nearly all of Lewis' opponents had not only lost before, they had been stopped.

Nationalistic bias aside, Wlad's resume is far better. He beat many prime undefeated heavyweights, and stopped many heavyweights who had never been stopped before.

No. Lewis was lucky Vitali was cut, because he was losing the fight.

 

You can pick apart anyone's resume but Lewis had the better resume

 

Lewis had begun to rise on the cards after losing the first three rounds, he was catching up, and clearly would have won the fight; He had beaten the hell out of Vitali, and there was no way Vitali was going to survive for six more rounds.

 

you seem to be conflating being unbeaten and being good there, eg I'm fairly sure that say Holyfield's losses to Bowe don't make him a worse fighter than some of the unbeaten guys who Wlad beat, your Calvin Brock types.