Lennox Lewis is overrated

6-10 is about right

 

Good thing , or Mercer would be eating through a straw all day

 

If any 1997-2001 versions of Lennox, had fought any 1997-2001 versions of Evander, Mike and Bowe, then of course he’d have been favoured over them.

Just like how any early 90’s version of Lennox, would have been an underdog against any prime versions of Evander or Bowe.


So I don’t get your point.

Him blooming late doesn’t make him overrated.


If you choose Mike in a fantasy fight, it has to be a 1988 version.

If you choose Bowe, it has to be early 90’s.

Ali mid to late 60’s.

Wlad mid 00’s.


So??

 

Nobody is actually good everyone sucks

 

WHAT Have you honestly seen the Lewis v Mercer fight !

 

Mercer was offered a rematch, accepted at first, but backed out later.

After Lewis beat Golota, Dino Duva, president of Main Events and Lewis's promoter, was asked about Mercer as a possible opponent for Lewis. Duva said Mercer had agreed to a rematch last year against Lewis, had accepted $100,000, but then backed out of the fight.

It seems unlikely that Lewis will fight Mercer, a dangerous opponent, before he gets a chance to meet the winner of the Evander Holyfield-Michael Moorer heavyweight championship fight Nov. 8. Emanuel Steward, Lewis's trainer, said Monday that Lewis did not want to fight again until January or February. Steward would not speculate on an opponent.

Mercer was supposed to fight Golota, but had to back out because of surgery to repair a herniated disk in his neck. Lewis, looking to raise his profile on the heavyweight scene, took the fight against Golota and whipped him convincingly.

 

Absolutely overrated. His first 11 opponents were nameless. Then he feasted on his share of old, blown-up cruiserweights such as Ocasio, McCrory, Jackson, followed by a 40-year-old Mike Weaver, Gary Mason, who beat up on a bunch of Mike Tyson left-overs in Ratliff, Tillis, Biggs. His first big win was Ruddock (already badly damaged after 19 rounds with Mike Tyson), who never won a meaningful fight again. A typically passive 34-year-old, Tony Tucker. Frank Bruno, who always found a way to lose when it mattered most. Get’s stopped in two by Mike Tyson’s sparring partner. Stops a grossly overweight Butler, an HIV ravaged Morrison, barely beats (some felt he lost) 35-year-old Mercer, stops McCall in a rematch where he lands flush and can’t even wobble his opponent who is in the throes of having a nervous breakdown in the ring, Akinwande (who refused to fight because a phone-booth sized ring was not his style), Golota who was doped up on lidocaine, Briggs (who prior, really lost to a 48-year-old Foreman), Mavrović (who?), Holyfield I (where he cheated by covering his tender torso with his protective gear), Holyfield (now 37 years old and already was on the slide after a lackluster showing against Vaughn Bean), Grant (who he held and hit which should have disqualified him), Botha (crazy size disparity against a no-hoper), Tua (plodding, 30 lbs over his best fighting weight), Rahman (Lewis blasted out with a single shot), Rahman rematch (as Foreman said of Lewis, he had no business losing to an opponent of Hasim’s caliber in the first place), Mike Tyson (drugged-out on antidepressant meds, shot to pieces and 25 lbs over his best weight), Klitschko (already quit against blown-up middle Byrd).

 

lol the hate is strong

 

Found an old thread on here about Mercer v Lewis rematch,a few posts stating what you mentioned .
https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/why-didnt-lewis-rematch-mercer.130414/

 

No. a bit exaggerated but so true

 

Saw it many times; Mercer was "dying" in there !

 

Swear this thread is made monthly bro...