Did Lennox Lewis Ever Have A Great Fight?

He won KO Magazine's fighter of the year in 1999.

Lewis' entertainment value is a bit underrated, imo.

The Klitschko fight were listed in the honorable mention section of great fights of 2003 in Ring's year end award section, because sloppy or no, it was awfully exciting to watch the two attempt to bomb one another out.

The Shannon Briggs was a lot of fun to watch, as was his fight with Ray Mercer. There was intrigue and a fair amount of action in his first fight with Rahman, and there was precision and power in the rematch. The Golota and Ruddock blow-outs were pretty spectacular, and even in fights that weren't necessarily great (Holyfield and Mavrovic), there were rounds that were a hell of a lot of fun to watch.

 

Tko 6

 

I misunderstood the question ... the most exciting was Mercer ... Lennox for the most part dominated ... the Bruno fight and it's come from behind victory as well ..

 

Tommy Morrison was entertaining as hell if that's the kind of entertainment you're looking for...

 

No, he left that up to Holyfield, Tyson, Bowe, and Cooper.

 

Klitschko was a great fight. The other fights were more like events imo.

Holyfiled, Tyson, Grant. Ok Grant was fun because of the ko, but as a fight? I not so sure.


Holyfiled was boring, and the Tyson fight was pretty much waiting until Lewis got the job done. It was not prime Tyson either, He had a few great fights. Saying that Lewis was still a great fighter, and a ATG. He give any one a hand full imo.

 

He didn't beat the **** out of Holyfield. He edged the first fight and got a sympathy gift in the second one!

 

vitali vs lennox was a great fight hands down... lennox was in his end and he faced a prime athletic giant(vitali is a top 20 hw ever for sure, he is a ****ing force h2h)

 

Nope, he ducked all the great fighters when they were greats, so not in my book. The best fighter he fought was Holyfield and tyson but he waited until they were washed up and beaten by everyone else in town to fight. The fight against Vitali was entertaining, but when it took him just 2 rounds of fighting as he did nothing in the other 4, to cut his face open I guess that is his best moment. He tko a guy who was winning a fight against him. But in hindsight he should have just did that in the first 2 rounds and ended it in 2, then that'd be a great fight.

Lennox could beat guys down, but if he did it faster then he'd be a great, he takes too long and lets the other guy in the fight too much. Like how can I call his vitali win great when he took 6 rounds, 4 of which he did not look good to win? How can I call his tyson win great when he waited until tyson had broken, ribs, backs, ear drum, etc to fight a washed up shadow of himself tyson? worst of all it took him like 10 rounds to beat washed up tyson who just walked straight into him.

Lennox drew with holyfield so there is his chance.

Now tyson was not great for long, but when he was we get the impression no mortal could last more than 5 rounds with him He dropped berbick in 2, pinky in 6, spinks in 1 and holmes in 4. All of them by knockout and hardly losing a round in any of them. Lennox great achievement is just getting by for 8-10 rounds before knocking someone out. He isn't great, just very good.

 

haha another tysonfanboy and lewis hater, zero credibility. the draw evander vs lewis was a joke... lewis won this fight, you are a ****ing troll
(lewis ko 8 over tyson):hi:

 

When you see how guys like seth mitchell and wlad klitschko get beat up and knocked out by small guys who are nothing special it is hard to believe they would beat a small guy who was good.

 

To each his own. If you didn't find the Ruddock, Golota, or Vitali fights entertaining that's your problem not anyone else's.

I personally though he was a very entertaining fighter at times, and at other times I wished he had gone into seek and destroy mode more often. But he did it enough for me to call many of his fights entertaining. I couldn't care less about what entertains you or doesn't.

 

Lewis win over Ray Mercer was a damn good heavyweight fight. They nailed each with bombs and Lennox had to dig deep in that one. He also showed a pretty sturdy chin.

That was probably the best back and forth action fight I can remember Lewis being in.

 

To be fair Tyson paid Lewis step aside money rather than fight Lewis whrn Tyson was closer to his best. In fact you could argue Bowe, Tyson, moorer, Foreman and Holyfeild all avoided Lewis. Bowe point blank would notfight him, Holyfeild kept losing his title to bowe and moorer but found time to defend against old men and cooper?

Lewis was still not in that exciting fights, but then he was as a superheavyweight