Does Lennox Lewis belong in the top 5 hardest hitters of all time?

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  1. round15

    round15 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    #1 Shavers
    #2 Foreman
    #3 Liston
    #4 Tyson
    $5 Lyle
    #6 Lennox Lewis
     
  2. prone2gr8tness

    prone2gr8tness Member Full Member

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    r u racist and hate white boxers?
     
  3. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    Personally, my list is

    1. Wlad Klitschko
    2. Rocky Marciano
    3. Vitali Klitschko
    4. Joe Louis
    5. Jimmy Young
    6. Jerry Quarry

    Better?
     
  4. MRBILL

    MRBILL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I question some of them dude's.......:huh

    MR.BILL:bbb
     
  5. Cael

    Cael Claudia Cardinale Full Member

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    he wasn't even 210....he was barely 200.
    Surely Lennox hits harder.
    Louis wasn't even the hardest puncher of his era.
     
  6. Cael

    Cael Claudia Cardinale Full Member

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    bro...i'm telling you, Jerry Quarry hits harder then both Joe Louis and Jimmy Young, and where the f*ck is Jack Dempsey?...also Ingo the Bingo..?!
     
  7. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    Well, Louis' white ancestry alone should have him that high on the list, I think. Young, well he did ring Cooney's bell, now! ...But, perhaps you're right. These rankings get confusing. :blood Also, Dempsey gets deducted for Cherokee ancestry. They're all feather-fisted, or so Time magazine once said. Wait-Time magazine or KKK boxing monthly? I get them confused. It had Charles Lindbergh on the cover.
     
  8. The Mongoose

    The Mongoose I honor my bets banned

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    Lennox Lewis punched like a limp wristed homosexual woman.

    Of his major knockouts:

    Andrew Golota had a reaction to medication, Ruddock was SHOT, and Grant was KOed by a McCline jab..

    Now lets talk about real punchers like the man in my avatar.
     
  9. tommygun711

    tommygun711 The Future Full Member

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    Shannon Briggs and McCall were iron chinned and lewis stopped both of them. Also he managed to stopped Tyson who was extremely durable even at that point of his career
     
  10. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Horrible List.

    Lyle punches harder than Max Baer? Than Joe Louis? Liston? Marciano? Tua?

    Sure.
     
  11. Jorodz

    Jorodz watching Gatti Ward 1... Full Member

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    FOREMAN Hooooook!!!
     
  12. Kalasinn

    Kalasinn ♧ OG Kally ♤ Full Member

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    I loved the way Foreman got the number 1 & 2 slots. :lol:
     
  13. Jorodz

    Jorodz watching Gatti Ward 1... Full Member

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    surprised CURRENT foreman get number 3
     
  14. Kalasinn

    Kalasinn ♧ OG Kally ♤ Full Member

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    I know '03 isn't quite current, but watch the start of this video:

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JstEycnPLc[/ame]


    Peak Vitali was never going to beat Old Lewis, because after the first 2 rounds Lennox took over, & in the final 2 rounds Vitali was desperately clinching to avoiding being slaughtered. However just imagine, Foreman-Vitali in Winter '03, in which George lands a "Hail Mary" punch late & KO's a tired Klit. *

    Then his list could be:

    1. Foreman
    2. Old Foreman
    3. Old, Old Foreman

    :lol:



    *In reality i realise that Old, Old George would be extremely shot, no matter how hard he trained in '03.
     
  15. Jorodz

    Jorodz watching Gatti Ward 1... Full Member

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    :!: good point. for foreman hook and combat, foreman's corpse could fall on any fighter in history and knock them out thus making it...

    1. Foreman
    2. Old Foreman
    3. Old, Old Foreman
    4. Dead Foreman
    5. Slapsie Rosenbloom