OVERALL: Who's GREATER, Lennox Lewis or Joe Calzaghe?

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OVERALL: Who's GREATER, Lennox Lewis or Joe Calzaghe?

Poll closed Apr 14, 2023.
  1. Lennox Lewis

    88.3%
  2. Joe Calzaghe

    11.7%
  1. Boxingiq2020

    Boxingiq2020 Active Member Full Member

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    What do guys think?
     
  2. Babality

    Babality KTFO!!!!!!! Full Member

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    Easily Lennox.
     
  3. JOSEY WALES

    JOSEY WALES Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Big Calzaghe fan here , loved watching his fights but voted Lennox in a heartbeat .
     
  4. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    Lewis by some margin, his resume is just deeper, Calzaghe wasted too many years before stepping up his comp.
     
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  5. drenlou

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    C'mon man. Its Lennox easily.
     
  6. Ph33rknot

    Ph33rknot Live as if you were to die tomorrow Full Member

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    I like slappy better
     
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    Goran_ Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    Lennox has a better resume but being a big HW for his time had more advantages over his peers than Calzaghe.. at HW you can dwarf your opponents.. you can have 20/30lb weight disparities ...that matters imo.. in a p4p sense, if they were the same size peak Calzaghe would outbox lummox imo.. he didn't like southpaws either .. Byrd deserved his shot.. it just depends how you define greatness but if you go on resume then it's obviously lennox.. but Calzaghe gets **** for fighting shop worn Bhop & Eubank etc yet just remember how old Tyson , and Holyfield were when LL turned em over..
     
  8. Snails

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    Lewis and it's not even close.
     
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  9. Dynamicpuncher

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    Lennox Lewis by far he didn't waste 80 percent of his career fighting the likes of Tocker Pudwill, Evans Ashira.
     
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  10. Mr Stagger Lee

    Mr Stagger Lee Active Member Full Member

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    I can't split them to be honest. In my opinion the Welshman was once of the most robust I've seen. Lennox, resilient and moved well for a man that size. Both greats.
     
  11. One more round

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    I love them both. I actually think Calzaghe could have been greater but he didn’t face enough top fighters at the right time. I always feel something is missing from his career which I don’t with Lennox.
     
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  12. Johnny1987

    Johnny1987 Active Member Full Member

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    Calzaghe was good, but didn’t fight RJJ or B-Hop until they were both past it. They both dropped him in the first round of their fights, so that should tell you what would have happened if they were in their prime.

    Calzaghe was very good, but not on a Lennox Lewis level.

    The UK will never produce a greater fighter than Lennox ever again, thats no shame on the UK either as neither will any country in any part of the world. He is the greatest fighter in the most celebrated division of all time.
     
  13. Kell Macabe

    Kell Macabe I don’t know s*** about boxing Full Member

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    I personally have Lewis locked inside my top 50 p4p ATGs. But Calzaghe is maybe top 80, or something like that.
     
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  14. Ph33rknot

    Ph33rknot Live as if you were to die tomorrow Full Member

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    What about the forearm that dropped him
     
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    Wow! Lol!