George Foreman vs Lennox Lewis

Your post shows how you overrate the Ali- era in general, if you really thinks that a fighter like Lyle hits harder than Lewis...

 

I´m not overrating Marciano, but I defend his legacy, it´s sad to read how little kiddies today speak about him ("Tye Fields would KO that bum in one single round!", "He beat only shot,former LHW´s", "He was too small, he couldn´t beat a big and skilled fighter like Ali", etc.), and I do it with every other fighter when I feel he´s getting underrated. Your comment is totally false, the one-punch was Lewis strength as a puncher. Lyle was in general a better puncher than Lewis (because Lewis was also a great boxer), but one-punch-wise Lewis hit much harder than Lyle, look how many good fighters Lewis KO´d with one punch and now look at Lyle...

 

I didn´t mean that you´re a kid, you´re a good and serious poster, and I never read **** from you like the example I came with (Fields-Marciano), I respect your opinion, but to be honest, I don´t overrate Marciano, and he´s not one of my favourite fighters, but I notice that he´s getting overrated, so I defend him correctly IMO, I don´t think you overrate Ali, I think you overrate the Ali- era in general, but that´s not the topic now...


my prediction for Lewis- Foreman:



Lewis is in the first few rounds a bit scary because of Foreman´s power, and that´s why he´s only slightly ahead on points, but than he hurts Foreman more and more with his shots and Foreman gets KO´d later... Lewis combination of skills, power and size would be too much for Foreman


Lewis TKO 11 Foreman

 

In my ATG´s- lists, I make it with ca. 70 % legacy, and 30 % head-to-head( and I rate Marciano high, because he had good HOF´s- opponents, and fought always the nr. 1-challenger, was unbeaten, needed never the help of the judges, etc.), here´s my Top 15 now:



1: Joe Louis
2: Muhammad Ali
3: Rocky Marciano
4: James J. Jeffries
5: Joe Frazier
6: George Foreman
7: Jack Dempsey
8: Jack Johnson
9: Harry Wills
10: Lennox Lewis
11: Larry Holmes
12: Evander Holyfield
13: Sonny Liston
14: Ezzard Charles
15: Mike Tyson

 

Thank you very much! I hope I forgot nobody in my list...

 

Wrong. Lewis did get up, against McCall. He had both gloves tucked into his chin ready to go, although he was extremely shaken at the time the referee waved the fight off.

Many other referees would have given Lewis the benefit of the doubt as champion and let him continue.

I will freely admit, If Lewis was allowed to go on I'm pretty sure he would have been stopped on his feet by a McCall bombardment, or maybe even knocked down again.

 

That means you admit Lewis hits harder than Lyle?

 

Lewis' power is underrated. Just look at his showings against Ruddock, Morrison, Briggs, Golota, Grant, Botha, Rahman, and Tyson.

He maybe never quite had the power of Foreman and Tyson, but he wasn't far behind them in the power department.

 

I'm pretty certain that punch for punch Lewis hit harder than Tyson. As for Foreman Lewis was a different type of puncher than George. Going back to the clean versus dirty power Lewis was closer to 'clean' whilst Foreman's power was 'dirtier'. I am sure that Lewis was a more 'correct' puncher than Foreman because they were delivered in a straight line whilst Foreman's were generally wide and looping.