Lennox Lewis and Jack Dempsey: Styles, A Twisted Mirror?

If guys like McCall and Rahman could take Lewis out, the Manassa Mauler destroys him early.

Lewis might have a size advantage, but when Dempsey starts throwing leather, Lewis ends up getting beat up just like Willard did. Willard, however, had a better chin. This one ends with Lewis out cold on the canvas.

 

Agreed.

Dempsey did try to change his style for Sharkey, but it didn't work out for him very well. For the most part, that bout went Sharkey's way until the sudden kayo. (I'm not overlooking the fact that Dempsey's prime had already ended early.)

Interesting question where Lewis is concerned, not one I can offer any sort of informed opinion about.

 

Ooops.....force of habit, I guess!!

Seriously, though, if Dempsey and Lewis switched styles, Lewis would have gotten knocked out MORE often. Were he to have been that aggressive, those shaky whiskers would have gotten badly exposed many times.

Dempsey just would have been boring - I don't even want to think about it, really.

 

I think they were better off with thier styles although this is an interesting thread.

Dempsey being a swarmer had the luxury unlike Frazier, Tyson or Marciano of opting to box as opposed to fighting aggressively soley on the fact that he had the height to be a boxer. Whereas Tyson, Frazier and Marciano were short guys who had to fight the way they fight to be successful. I think his style was perfect for his time. Ultra aggressive yet it played into his physicalities of speed strength and power.

Lewis on the other hand was again better off the way he was. Although between the two of them Lewis probably would have been the more sucessful one by swapping styles. Thing about Lewis is his chin has always been put into questions. While I dont believe its China I do believe that a big puncher can end things abruptly with one well placed shot. Would he be sucessful as a slugger yes but only mildly. He'd probably end up in the same tier as Ruddock, Morrison, Mercer group.

 

Its interesting you describe dempsey as a counter puncher,

I know Tyson liked dempsey's style and incorporated it into his. So I would of thought he was a pressure puncher(dempsey was).

 

Dempsey didn't counter punch so much against opponents who boxed shorter than he did, but in the opening minute against Willard, Jack slips a jab to counterstrike with a picturesque hook. (He looked like a cobra doing that, and had scribes analogize him to one. Very graceful in his movements.) The mid ring right to Tunney's temple, which initiated the Long Count KD sequence, was also a countershot, off of Tunney's slipped jab.

 

yawn!

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=u4SQmxIP5Bk

oh and try acutally reading posts before you respond?

 

Dempsey could've been fairly succesful if he adopted Lewis' style. Fighting tall at Dempseys size may give a few problems, but allround i think he'd do quite well (though not as good as he did with his actual style).

The other way around however, i don't think Lewis would be very good with Dempsey's style. I expect him to turn into a Shavers kind of fighter with more technique; the one that either KO's you or loses by KO. Tall fighters are rarely aggressive sluggers, and for good reason.

 

All you have to do is read Lennox Lewis and immediatly go into a tirade about how he was stopped by McCall and Rahman.