Felix Savon v Lennox Lewis

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He got caught twice in his entire career, therefore he is a "sucker for straight punches"???

 

Why not?

 

Drexl quick, Lewis or Klitchsko in rd7? make your choice...

:yep

 

I didn't necessarily mean his losses. He seemd to take too many straight shots throughout his career. He truly had a granite chin, by the way, which allowed him to get away with that. But I feel Savon had too much power to kid around with. I'm a LL fan, so please take a deep breath and count to ten.

 

savon was a cruiserweight
lewis is a big heavyweight

savon spent 95% of his career when fighting western opposition fighting teenagers , when he himself was a man.

there was a USA v cuba match and no american 201 fighter could be found to go in against the feared savon , so america picked an obscure 25th ranked 24 year old army seargent who weas willing to fight savon.

cuban ref for the fight.

the american seargent proceeded to beat savon all around the ring, giving him a pasting until the cuban ref kept on jumping in to give savon a restbite.
3 rounds of 1 way action for the seargent dominating a prime savon .

3 cuban judges gave the fight to savon 2 american judges to the seargent in a blatant robbery.

the seargent`s name was ray mercer.

 

So he started his amateur career when he was 28 or 29, right?

 

I agree.:thumbsup it doesn't necessarily follow. It's like claiming Teofilo Stevenson(heavyweight Cuban olympic gold medallist) being better than Ali (Tha Greatest).