Is Lennox Lewis the most skilled "giant" in boxing history?

No, of course he doesn't.

Shockingly, I didn't make that claim.

 

It was YOUR example.

 

Yes.

And I asked you if you thought that knowing those specific techniques might have helped Lewis in that specific situation. You answered that:

"Lennox does not need to learn peekaboo to slip a right hand."

Which is an absolutely ridiculous response. -

You know full well i'm not saying Lennox Lewis needs to learn that technique to slip a right hand. Get out of here with that garbage.

You know what i'm asking you if knowing a specific skill which calls for you to dip out of a charge - for example off the ropes - might have helped him in a situation where he charged off the ropes and got poleaxed by a right hand that he could have avoided using that specific technique.

It's entirely obvious he could have benefited. Maybe not - but using that specific technique is obviously one that might work in that specific situation.

You know all this, so answered a different question.

At that point it's juts a waste of my time.

 

That's true, but you said that Lennox Lewis learning the peekaboo style might have benefitted him in that specific situation. I say so, because it is a technique whereby the fighter takes himself off the centre line when moving forwards specifically to ditch straight punches from the opponent. Lewis was moving forwards in such a fashion and undertaking the moves taught in that technique might have helped him in that situation. You can say "no, I don't think there is any way that technique could have helped him in that situation" or you might prefer to say "having reflected upon it, dipping off the ropes in the peekaboo fashion and trying for the counter might have helped Lewis a lot in that moment." You don't have to reprint your "original statement." Just answer. If you think there is no way it would have helped him to know those moves, say so.

Yes, I know that. You can slip it in one of a dozen ways. One of them is peekaboo. The one under discussion is peekaboo. This in no way precludes Lewis using any and all other techniques to avoid a right hand, BUT given the details of the technique it seems especially relevant in the circumstances.

Allowing that Lennox Lewis does not have to learn this specific technique to drop a right hand Acknowledging that fact. It still seems relevant to ask. Do you think knowing and being familiar with those techniques having practiced them, for example, since he met Tyson and Cus years before he turned professional, he might have benefitted from knowing those techniques in that moment?

And you can answer, if you want. Or, you can continue to pretend that i'm saying that it's the only possible way that Lewis could ditch a right hand and answer that made up question instead.

Thank you. Thank you for that.

Sadly for both of us, handling people who are being both obtuse and wrong is one of my hobbies.

 

You can learn a technique with "adopting" it. So for example, you might learn the Philly shell, but find that it doesn't merge with your maturing style particularly. Against an opponent that wants to jab for your chest and has been doing well with that move throughout the first two rounds, you might return to it for a spell in order to neutralise the opponent. It might work, it might not, but you have to know it to have the opportunity to deploy it.

 

The mods here are just posters.