would anthony joshua survive in the 90s era

You mean like Foreman?

Vitali was a proven puncher w/ 1 of the best KO ratios of any titlist in history, & Lewis withstood numerous shots from him.

Hrgovic is your answer to Lewis?

 

The thing is it's all pointless in the end because you can't prove it either way, you're always going to get fans who are too nostalgic of the past or fans who think every fighter in the modern era is the best thing since sliced bread.

I just try and have balanced opinion overall on both eras and see the strengths and weaknesses in both eras.

What i will say Serge is i think Lewis's chin is maybe bit better than what people give him credit for he has taken some big punches from Bruno, Mercer, Vitali, Briggs, who all had high KO percentages. Even Rahman had 41 stoppages in 50 wins and he was incredibly strong bench pressing over 400 pounds.

But saying all that there is some big punchers in this era that could definitely clean Lewis's clock if he gets complacent like he sometimes did. Zhang, Dubois, Joshua, even Wilder who i think was vastly overrated has a nuclear like right hand that could sleep Lewis if he landed one.

 

He was vegetarian and are you trying to say he's much smaller than Usyk who admitted in interviews he had to eat alot of food to make 220lb+ ? They're nearly the same size cmon you can't be serious

Still mopped Rahman in the rematch and beat everyone he fought in the grant scheme, Mccall would've got the same treatment had he not started tweaking.

 

Nope. Tyson, Holyfield, Lennox, just to name a few all beat Joshua.

 

After the beatdown Dubois gave Joshua, I think its safe to say he'd not have survived against Mike coming in at 220 or so. If he couldn't get past Tyson, forget about Holyfield, Bowe or Lewis.

 

Yeah, two of the lower end guys. You include those guys on the laundry list when you have high end guys. Wilder does not.

 

the poll choices are coercive...what...you work for FOX/CNN/MSNBC/BBC/PBS etc or something irl?

Imo Joshua would have enjoyed some major success in the upper reaches of the HW division. Probably would have had a big following but ultimately would have caught a beat down. More than one.

 

So is Zhang, & he's considered the hardest puncher in the sport today.

Vitali was no less of a puncher than Dubois is, irrespective of whatever his punching technique happened to be. Critiquing his technique is just an irrelevant & diversionary talking point.

IDK what bearing that would have on whether Lewis takes Dubois' punches, but your argument is disingenuous b/c throwing punches w/o loading up on them makes them harder to avoid.

The part that explains why you've had to rely on false, contradictory, or irrelevant talking points in order to "refute" those supposedly "unprovable" arguments.

 

Fighters generally don't fight their actual contemporaries either. Are we not allowed to discuss Usyk's ranking in his own era due to him not fighting most of the top contenders? Realistically Usyk will never fight Bakole, or Joyce, or Zhang, or Jalolov, etc, etc, etc

 

Joshua is in the lineage of Tubbs and Seldon.

 

Nah Andrew would quit after the first round realizing that AJ didn't have any nuts to crack.