I'd agree Tunney would probably be on the backfoot quite a bit but that doesn't mean he couldn't be effective while doing so. Lewis also blew hot and cold and if he had an off night things might get interesting. His fight against Billups, for example, was a stinker.
I’ve always said that Lewis would struggle with an opponent who could really move ... I mean hell ...isn’t that the reason we think Muhammad Ali could beat him ?
Because "Jack Dempsey woulda knocked them both out the same night." - Gene Tunney after Norton - Holmes, Caeasars Palace 9/6/1978
Tunney might be able to make things tricky, but would get broken down and stopped IMO. He was a great Light Heavyweight, not really a great Heavyweight though.
On questions like this, I think the assumption is that we are talking about the best version of both fighters.
I imagine this looking like Herbie hyde vs Bowe except over alot sooner. Lewis by a brutal stoppage before the 3rd round
I think Tunney's chin is being sold short, he recovered very well from a really nasty series of punches by Dempsey, including multiple on the way down.
He actually said that?? Surely he was being hyperbolic. Don't know about Norton, but even if he did stop Holmes, which is far fetched, he'd have to go through hell to do it
Like Willard would get up seven times for round two after 49 unanswered punches against Lennox Lewis, getting punched in the squat as soon as he got up?? This content is protected
If Lennox Lewis could stand over a fallen foe and continue to pummel them, especially with those horse hair gloves, people would be left crippled or dead. Same goes for Mike Tyson.
