Gives me an excuse to post this, surely nobody can say with any credibility Lennox had a weak chin after seeing this vid. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRShCBKwng[/ame]
top 5 atg heavyweight. also a down to earth gentleman. great role model for any young heavyweight to follow. america tret him like **** even though he constantly fought abroad on their territory. they doubted him to the very end, till nobody was left standing, till they could no longer deny that he was the man.
When they fought neither of them were fighting at 100%. Lewis was toying with him. As history has shown, prime for prime Tyson would fail to rise to the occasion and get sparked by Lewis
of course tyson ducked him. lewis was tyson's mandatory, and tyson dropped his belt to fight holyfield, so lewis sued him and won a settlement. if that isn't ****ing ducking, then i don't know what is.
Thanks for the in-put guys :good I thought i was in the small minority who thought he was top 5 ATG HW ever but obviously not, Awesome Heavyweight, acheived just about everything a HW could, beat every pro he faced and did not duck a single fighter, only the greatest have done such things and i think in years to come his legacy will only grow stronger
I have him at no.7, great heavyweight. If I put more focus in head to head (which I dont) he would probably be top five.
Maybe top 30. Good Champion, not great. Was sparked out in his prime by 2 B level fighters, Holyfield was past prime when he met Lewis, an the win over Prime Vitali was on a technical decision in a fight Lewis was losing at the time of stoppage, Also refused a rematch. Theres not another win on his resume that defines his greatness for me. Bined his WBA strap instead of facing mandatories. If Tyson did that he would never have faced Douglas, so it is important. Fights aren't won on paper. 1. Muhammad Ali 2. Joe Louis 3. Sam Langford 4. George Foreman 5. Larry Holmes 6. Rocky Marciano 7. Sonny Liston 8. Joe Frazier 9. Jack Johnson 10. Jack Dempsey 11. Ezzard Charles 12. Ken Norton 13. Jersey Joe Walcott 14. James J. Jeffries 15. Gene Tunney 16. Harry Wills 17. Floyd Patterson 18. John L. Sullivan 19. Max Schmeling 20. Max Baer There is 20 i rate higher, an i've more than likey missed someone out...