Lennox Lewis all time place and legacy

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Probably top 5 or just outwith it.

 

Can't understand why they were bringing up the Amateur fight with Bowe. Doesn't mean a thing.

Great Heavyweight, has to be a lock for the top 10. Anywhere outside the top 5 for me.

 

gosh if hes # 1 u must rate oliver mccall and hasim rahman in your top 15-20? all time?

 

If you are familiar with Sky boxing coverage they do tend to mention a lot of irrelevant facts.

They aren't above bending the truth in order to suit themselves either..... Oscar was #7 on their P4P list prior to the Pac fight, yet wasn't on it when Hatton fought Floyd.....

Listening to them now though you wouldn't think he (Lennox) existed!

 

I think top 5 is probably fair. While he had a couple of bad losses to lesser fighters, he is one of the few men who has the claim to beating every man he ever faced. He also joins the fraternity of Ali and Louis in terms of beating the largest number of ranked heavyweights, though Ali and Louis are still higher. He also fought in an era where being a heavyweight meant being a very big man, and convincingly dispatched a vast number of big heavys with impressive records..

 

Great video, I have him #4 all time heavyweight behind Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali. He beat Donovan Ruddock tko 2, Tony Tucker 117-111 ,116-112 , 118-111, Frank Bruno tko 7, Tommy Morrison tko 6, Ray Mercer 96-94 , 96-95 |, 95-95 (close fight), Oliver McCall tko 5 (avanged a loss and reganed his tittle), Henry Akinwande dq 5, Andrew Golota ko 1, Shannon Briggs tko 5, Evander Holyfield 116-112, 117-111, 115-113 (avenged a draw), Michael Grant ko 2, Francois Botha tko 2, David Tua 117-111, 119-109, 118-110 , Hasim Rahman ko 4 (avanged a loss), Mike Tyson ko 8 snd Vitali Klitschko tko 6. Riddick Bowe is missing from his resume but that is not his fault.

 

Hard to top that post, so I'll just agree with it.

 

Thanks,

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