Do you wish Lennox Lewis had fought Ruiz

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No doubt about it mate.

 

No. I kinda like Ruiz, and Lennox would have hurt him bad.
Besides, had Lennox fought Ruiz, there never would have been the Ruiz Holyfield trilogy, Holyfield probably would have given up his unattainable goal of once again becoming undisputed champ. Roy Jones would have never moved up to heavyweight because Ruiz would not be there for easy pickings. Roy would have stayed at light heavy and had just one fight with Tarver, eventually getting bored and retiring with just the Griffin loss. Tarver would never become a big enough star and Rocky Balboa would not have a Mason Dixon. Bernard Hopkins would not make the move to light heavy and would have retired after the contraversial Taylor losses. This mean that Winky Wright would not have B-Hop to fight and would have rematched Taylor instead. Winky would have won the rematch and would have also defeated Pavlik. So there would never have been all the Pavlik hype. This means that it would be Winky that moves up to face Joe Calzahge...and that's why I'm glad that Lennox did not fight Ruiz.

 

No !

 

It's gonna take more than a KO to put Ruiz away.

The man is reaching Freddy Kreuger levels of ressurection.

 

lewis would have ****ed him up..

 

finally Lennox would be exposed !

 

:rofl

 

Not really. It would have been an ugly couple of rounds before Ruiz went to hold and Lewis unleashed an almighty uppercut to detatch Ruiz from his senses. I can't see that a Ruiz win at that stage would have added anything more to his resume.

 

At the time definitely not, Ruiz was hardly known except for his win over Holyfield back then and his brutal loss to Tua. Not many were interested in that fight as many weren't interested in a fight with Byrd either.

 

Yes. Alternatively I wuld have like to have seen Vitaly vs Ruiz. Would have been the same.

A shame Ruiz avoided these two.

 

I'd rather Holyfield had been just 10% better, then the whole Ruiz experiment by Don King would've been killed off at birth.

 

Lennox would have KOed Ruiz.

 

I think Ruiz deep down knew as well as Lewis, because they had sparred so many rounds at the Lennox Lewis centre in London and in the poconos, That Lewis would have manhandled Ruiz fairly handily, probably stopping him on his feet around 7.. He is a tough guy but would have suffered a bad pummelling at the hands of the far more schooled Lewis........

 

The funny thing is that it wasn't even meant to be Ruiz getting the WBA shot in the first place, it was Akinwande that King had firm designs on moving back into title contention.

Henry was still firmly in the picture and was actually rated as the WBA #1 contender until all the way to around March 2000, before a medical suspension due to hepatitis C removed him from the picture.

I always felt King knew Lewis would really hate to have Akinwande as his first defence, given how bad the fight was the first time round. You couldn't have given away tickets for a sequel. So Lewis either fights Akinwande - might look bad again, zero interest from the public - or ditches the belt instead.

As it happened, by the time Ruiz stepped into the picture it was full steam ahead with Lewis-Grant anyway. And even then the original agreement was for Lewis-Ruiz to happen later in the year, until King decided he could push his argument even further and a lousy performance from Lewis's lawyer helped to lose him his WBA belt in court.

The whole thing makes quite a story on its own, that's not even the full details. For example, David Tua waiting 2 years to get his title shot, partly due to the Lewis-Holyfield I fiasco...he also had to be accounted for, and indeed looked into getting Lewis stripped of the IBF for fighting Grant first too.