How Would Lamon Brewster Fare Against Today’s Heavyweights?

He'd probably do pretty well. He'd burn out even more quickly, though, IMO.

 

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.

 

I could also see him beating Kabayel and maybe Parker. Kabayel because it's the sort of attritional fight that Brewster seemed to like; Parker based on Brewster hunting down Krasniqi. (Who was admittedly smaller and less good than Parker.)

 

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.

 

How do you see the Kabayel fight going, and why?

Brewster isn't really the sort of opponent Kabayel has destroyed. Brewster wasn't exactly a technical wizard, but he wasn't as crude as Makhmudov, either. Injury aside, Sanchez didn't have the punch to keep Kabayel off. And Zhang lacked the stamina.

Brewster, OTOH, plays the same body punching game as Kabayel does, and Kabayel wouldn't have a huge advantage in size on Brewster. Nor the kind of punch that would stop Brewster's foward advance; Brewster, meanwhile, is a puncher with relatively good stamina, who likes to grind people down.

Granted, Brewster lost to Liakhovich in an attitritional battle, who wasn't very good -- likely inferior to Kabayel -- where IIRC there was a lot of body punching and some mobility from Liakhovich.

But I don't see Kabayel as a favorite against Brewster, either...

 

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.