1.True 2.False just because you don't possess a great chin doesn't mean you aren't great. 3. False, just because he's already hovering between top 5-8 ever as is. 4.False, best record perhaps, p4p Sal Sanchez eats him alive stylistically. 5. False there really isn't a demise. Talent always springs up, just in different divisions.
Interesting to me that so many answered number 2 as False. There's quite a lot of leeway being given to Lewis.
probably true first.. No Lennox is good, but he was a big guy benefitted from fighting small guys.. But he was great. Tyson will be what he always will be. A guy who dominated most contenders yet lost to the best guys he fought. Chavez? greatest from Mexico? Probably. he was the most prime time. I am not sure about the last. They are talking about 12 rounds? That is enough time to win a fight.
Illgo with this .Apart from the Lewis question ,which i disagree with .I don't see the McCall ,Rahman ko s affecting his greatness.
No doubt they matter but Robinson was not knocked out by substandard opposition. The manner of the defeat in the first fights is significant. To lose that way once, okay - it can happen to the best of them. To lose that way twice makes it more significant. Don't get me wrong, Lewis was fantastic when he was on his game but he wasn't on his game as often as he should have been and he lost to two fighters that he shouldn't have if he truly was as great as many people say he is.
1. True. Just a horrible style match-up. 2. False. 3. False. 4. True. I still have him at number one all time for Mexicans/ 5. False.
1. No version of Saad Muhammad defeats Qawi. This content is protected 2. Lennox Lewis must be downgraded historically because no legitimate great loses to people named Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman while in his prime. This content is protected 3. In another ten years, Mike Tyson's legacy of greatness will improve and his placement among the ATG's will also move up accordingly. This content is protected 4. Julio Cesar Chavez is the greatest fighter to hail from Mexico. This content is protected 5. The point of origin for the demise of quality in world-class boxing can be traced to the 1980's. This content is protected
1. True. Saad Muhammad never looked like he could ever beat Qawi. 2. False. Complacency, whilst not an ideal trait for a boxer to carry, isn’t a crime and, in Lewis’ case, was adequately redressed. 3. False. Tyson’s legacy is held in high enough regard, already. 4. True. Chavez had a great, great career. Olivares and Sanchez are the only others in contention but Chavez has the numbers. 5. False. I don’t think there’s a single point of origin for a perceived decline in World-Class boxing.