How Would Lamon Brewster Fare Against Today’s Heavyweights?

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.

 

Prime vs prime i pick Brewster over both of them

 

You probably weren’t watching boxing back then. Brewster managed to draw the color line in the mid 2000s. He was worse than peak Andy Ruiz.

 

Hard to say but his power would leave him with a chance against most.

 

I've probably been watching boxing longer than you.
For a matter of style, Brewster Joshua would be very similar to Dubois Joshua, imo, and Ruiz Jr Prime is nothing more than Brewster Prime.

Who did Wilder beat? His only respectable victory is Ortiz 1.

 

Go watch the Meehan fight.

 

I saw all or almost all of Brewster's fights, just like I saw Joshua and Wilder. If I remember correctly, Meehan deserved to win on my card.

 

How would you distinguish the basic boxing game Kabayel played with the one Krasniqi did?

 

I know Krasniqi for getting beaten down by Tony Thompson. Kabayel is just tougher and better than that.

 

He would be in the Top 10 and cause one or two upsets.

He is the kind of fighter that on his night can do horrible things to guys like Joshua and Dubois. Knock them down hard and break their will.

 

He always had that real bad knee of his. Even as an amatuer. Sure does not seem all that long ago that Lamon was the highly regarded amatuer prospect and then lost to Williamson in an upset. His stock price sure took a big hit on that one.

 

What's interesting is that Williamson was considered by fighters in the know as one of the hardest punchers of his time .. he was nt a great pro but a huge puncher ..I remember Chris Byrd talking about it in detail. He said the general public didn't know but the fighters knew.,