Better Resume: Lewis or Holyfield?

You might wanna add Lewis to Holyfield's resumé, you added Holy to Lennox's. atsch

 

IMO Lewis.

 

Perhaps he's only putting wins on there?

 

Just out of curiosity why is the first win by Lewis who by most accounts won 9-10 of the rounds, not considered when you evaluate the head to head performance between him and Holyfield? It seems to me the better and more accurate way to look at it this way- Lewis won approx 17 out of the 24 rounds they fought.

 

I think people are underestimating the Qawi wins for Holyfield. Here's a clip of how good Qawi was:

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Lennox never had to deal with any kind of buzzsaw like that.

 

That's probably because he wasn't fighting 190 pound 5'5 midgets. That buzzsaw would be a mismatch anyone?

 

Close one . . . but I'll pick Lewis

 

I think had Lewis really made a statement in that fight against Holyfield, similar to the way he did against a fading Razor Ruddock, the fight would have been held in higher regard. The fact that Lewis came in with a kidney belt up to his nipples, and almost ran from Holyfield at times, really put a bad taste in not only the judges mouth, but the general public. It was clear to most that Holyfields best days were behind him, and Lewis fought like he was facing king kong. It was like the De La Hoya Trinidad fight. It was clear Oscar won the fight, but everyone criticised him for running the last four rounds. Lewis coming into his best at that time, should have tried to really take it to Holyfield, especially considering it was a Don King promoted event. When assessing the greats, winning isnt the only the thing that counts, how you do it is also very important in my opinion.
Besides this thread is to compare their overall competition, and I think its very easy to say Holyfield, regardless of losses fought the better fighters at the better times in their careers.

 

Amazing. This poll shows again how overrated Lewis is, and how underrated Holyfield is.

 

Whether you like the style of Lewis or not, you still have to score fights inpartially and as mentioned you can't just ignore the first fight when talking about their head to head match ups. They fought twice, one wasn't even close, and the second fight was close, but Lewis won that one as well. That's what happened regardless of whether or not Lewis should have tried KOing him or not. Lewis did after all, KO a number of other formidable fighters.

As to the question at hand, I feel Lewis had a better heavyweight career than Holyfield and thus a better resume, if resume includes victories as opposed to simply who you fought.

But Holyfield has a better resume if his CW accomplishments are factored in and Holyfield's a better p4p fighter than Lewis.

 

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Yeah Zakman is nut!

 

do you cry every time people don't agree with you?

 

Lewis was more dominant and Holyfeld was a bit inconsistant and struggled with guys like moore than Lewis never would have had a problem with.

Lews was KOed twice but Lewis also had rematches and KOed them in return.