How Would Lamon Brewster Fare Against Today’s Heavyweights?

He’d make the top 10 and have some decent wins. Engage in some pretty exciting brawls too. His physical style however might prove to be a problem for him given the size and strength of todays heavy though.

 

He would do well. He would get some big ko wins and people would start declaring that he would beat Tyson and Holmes.

I think he would be top 10. Probably pick up a belt somewhere. But his defense was too leaky for him to be the best at any point.

His left hook would bother a lot of top heavies.

 

I agree that he'd do OK. Today's heavyweights are big and chunky no doubt but they all seem to be fatally flawed in some way. Dubois = suspect chin. Joyce = slow as a sloth. Zhang = hamster gas tank. AJ = blows hot and cold. Brewster was really tough and hit really hard. Guys like that always seem to be in contention, I mean, look at Chisora.

 

He’s do very well and I believe could have a 3-4 year run as a top 5 contender.

 

Loses to Usyk, Parker, Joshua, Fury, Dubois, Kabayel. and Sanchez. Maybe gets lucky against one of them.

Might beat Zhang and Bakole because their gas tanks are crappy.

Mught beat Ajaba because he just isn’t every good.

Probably beats Torrez Jr.

 

Brewster exclusively fought vulnerable fighters during his reign, and it still resulted in life and death fights and a short reign with the exception of the Golota fight.

Best case scenario for him is getting come from behind wins against Zhang, Hrgovic, and Dubois, but he’d really be more top twenty material than top ten.

 

Top 5 today, I pick Brewster over Dubois by brutal knockout in a war.

 

I'm not sure about picking DuBois, Kaba, and Sanchez over a guy who stopped Wladimir Klitschko... I can agree with the rest of them.

 

He’s sort of an opponent type IMO but guys like AJ and Wilder if he could be steered that way with careful match making they’d likely lose “stylistically” AJ I don’t think would cope with the pressure, I think he’d start to “fight scared” and Lamon would start lighting him up, he’d be frozen like a statue - Him beating Wilder is more a “feel” then anything though but someone like Parker would box him up good.

EDIT: This has me thinking why didn’t AJ and Wilder ever fight Chisora? He seems like an “opponent” to earn some $ and steam roll but something tells me he might’ve been interesting in with them and been a bit of a hit for marketability perhaps if DC had done really well.

 

Brewster would almost definitely get his ass kicked twice if he had to fight prime versions of Wilder and Joshua. He was an overachiever. He was like Tua, but with worse defense, chin, and a weaker base.

 

You’d know better than me and I also might be thinking of Ross Purrity I get those guys confused… they’re like Zora Folley and Eddie Machen in that way for me.

 

Here's the minimum ... he was basically the same size as Chispora but was faster, a harder hitter, had an even better chin and was overall better ... we can start there ...

 

Brewster at his peak lost to Liakovich and went life and death with Meehan and to a lesser extent Krasniqi. Wlad obviously gassed out in whatever narrative you believe. Shufford and Ettiene also beat him on points while he was a prosepct--I think he claimed to have broken his hand early against Etienne or something.

Kabayel is capable of employing a basic boxing gameplay and winning fights. He did it to Chisora. I think he'd do it to Brewster and I don't think Brewster's power would bail him out.

 

Much as he did in his own era.

Sometimes he would get out boxed, and sometimes he would get through, and separate the opponent from their good senses.