Holyfield/Tyson vs the Rahman punch in South Africa against Lenni

He's not a top puncher. I agree with that.
But that's not because he couldn't generate top power. He just wasn't good enough to deliver it often.

I wouldn't dream of exonerating Lennox Lewis. He got KO'd fair and square. No excuses.

 

It's not excuses.
But I think you might need to take one big shot to the face and learn the subject a bit more thoroughly. :good

I'm the last person to make excuses for Lennox Lewis. I think you're making excuses for him by suggesting he was handicapped by a glass chin.
I'm saying he was a sh!t boxer with no f--king defence !

 

I know, red. I do try and step away from the trolls but his monotonous 'lenni girly one punch to the face' nonsense just gets my goat. It's the manopause making me cranky. Years ago I wouldn't even have noticed the boring little turd

 

I well recommend taking punches to the face for UFC2510whatever :good They're great!

I love it when the galaxy zooms by, and you get that memorable iron and sulphur smell in the nostrils :hey You gotta try it

 

What Vitali rematch? He was 38 nearly, older than Tyson and Holyfield were when he fought them. Don't say they were shot at an age when you think Lewis is a coward for not going in against a dangerous huge contender. Be consistent. And don't say they had more wear and tear. Lewis had fought the best the division had to offer for over ten years, non-stop. Nobody else, not even Evander, could claim that. By 2003, Lewis had run his race.

Lewis, after fighting, oh, and beating, Vitali knew he hadn't got it any more so called it a day as a rich man with his brains intact. It's easy to be an armchair warrior and claim that makes him a coward. It doesn't. It makes him sensible; he'd long since proved his courage.

 

Well to be fair at the time he was saying things like "I have aged like fine wine" and talking about how he was going to be around for a while longer. I think Vitali did put the fear of God into him. That said, he WAS wise to retire ... his time was done. He was old. He should also have never promised a rematch when he didn't intend on going through with it.

 

Did he say that? That was the trouble with Lewis and why he never really achieved any popularity. He would disappear up his own end and make comments like that.

For all the posturing as some supercool, chess-playing cat, he was actually more of a plonker than a fine wine. I remember his speech at the Manny Steward memorial service. It ended with him recounting Manny saying Lennox Lewis knows how to party. Gotta love a man who talks about himself in the third person while delivering an obituary to someone else.

Also didn't realise he had promised a rematch but you can't blame him for reconsidering that.

 

Well, that's simply not true about Holy.

Holyfield had 13 years at world championship level and 17 world title fights before Lewis 1.

Holyfield had his 1st title fight in 1986.

Lewis' 1st title fight came in 1993.

 

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The above says you are a liar. That was ONE big right hand shot.


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Oh and by the way your hero Holy got dropped and stopped by a former Middleweight. Not much to mouth off about there I'm afraid.