Greater Resume: Lewis or Holmes?

Lewis.

Holmes never unified the title or became undisputed.
Lewis also beat better competition.

 

Lewis didn't beat better comp. Also, its not Larry's fault he didn't unify, it was politics and as usual, Don King.

 

Lewis:
Mercer
Tyson
Holyfield
Ruddock
Weaver
Biggs
Tucker
Bruno
McCall
Tua
Morrison
Golota
Klitschko

Holmes:
Ali
Norton
Shavers
Cooney
Berbick
Witherspoon
Smith



I think Lewis takes it in terms of competition.

 

Wait a second.
You include Weaver on Lewis's resume but not on Holmes' ??
And Mercer ? 42 year old Holmes beat him CONVINCINGLY when Mercer was young and hyped.

 

ok ok, include Mercer on Holmes list.
Still, i think Lennox beat the better competition.

 

It's a close call.

 

Lewis has better resume but Holmes is a ATG and a better fighter

 

Klitschko and Holyfield would be the two greatest fighters if you joined both resumes, so by that, Lewis.

 

Lewis did.

 

holmes.:good

 

Lewis - better resume and arguably more dominant. Holmes, I feel, has gone from underappreciated to overrated these past few years.

As for this:

Lewis has better resume but Holmes is a ATG and a better fighter

Lewis had greater variety and is also and ATG.

 

Norton and Holyfield are the greatest fighters there, in my opinion.

Vitali Klitschko is almost completely unproven against top heavyweight fighters. Seriously, the best win on his resume is some guy that Hasim Rahman had already knocked out, with little or no fanfare I might add.
Corrie Sanders, Kirk Johnson, Larry Donald - that's not enough to be rated above Ken Norton, IMO, who beat Muhammad Ali once and arguably twice.

 

Lewis has an all-round better resume and his best win (dominated a 36 year old Holyfield) is better than Holmes' best win (close win over an aging Norton).

If there was any doubt, the fact that Lewis actually took on dangerous fights and unified whereas Holmes didn't do so from 1982 should make the difference.