Lennox Lewis and Tyson Fury: what would happen if they switched resumes?

Prime Fury beats Vitali and Wlad IMO, but it would be close to 50/50

Lewis slaughters any of Fury's opponents. Lewis obliterates Wilder, and smokes 39 year old Wlad.

 

Holyfield and vitali both beat that big lump
Ruddock wasn't the same after Tyson, but he would have a good chance

Shannon Briggs is another that may give him problems

Today's era sucks. If Wlad had of been 5 or 6 years younger, he would smoke Fury and Aj

Usyk is the only great boxer in the division and I'm picking Fury because of size and his ability to clinch and fight dirty

 

Vitali would have the best chance of beating Fury in my opinion. Holyfield was too past his prime and stylistically would likely struggle against the much bigger Fury or at least the best version of Fury vs the version Lewis faced.

But one factor we have to consider is how inconsistent Fury was and how often he showed up in less than optimal shape. He got away with it for the most part in a relatively average era, could he do so in the very deep 90's era. Could an out of shape Fury beat a Ray Mercer in a 19foot ring like Lewis did. What if he showed up fat vs Golota like Bowe did, though to be fair Lewis faced a Golota who wasn't optimal due to the injection he had in his knee. Even Lewis himself suffered unexpected losses during that era against weaker opposition, it wouldn't shock me at all if Fury picked up a couple or more losses himself due to his even more inconsistent performances.

On an interesting side not both in their 36th bout will have fought the best Cruiserweight of their era in Holyfield for Lewis and Uysk for Fury. If Fury shows up less than 100% and loses to Usyk, I could see an argument for him losing to the Holyfield Lewis fought but we will need to see if Fury's last performance was just another example of him showing up unfocused and out of shape for a sign of his decline. If it's the latter and he loses to Usyk it would go against him in regards to matching up vs Holyfield.

 

If you lined all the fighters up, each has fought, and switched, then Lennox is beating all of Fury's, however Fury is struggling against a few of Lennox's. And if we are talking missed fights in each era, ie. Bowe, prime Tyson, even more so.

 

Lewis can potentially beat Wilder, but he's not getting through three fights without getting KO'd, let's be real. The guy got one-punched twice by backhands. And Vitali landed pretty easily too. Wilder is landing a decisive bomb some time in those three fights. The impressive thing about Fury is not so much that he beat Wilder but that he did it three times.

Old Wlad would also beat Lewis. Lewis isn't moving around for 11 rounds like Fury (12th Fury traded but nobody could land much). Wlad would land the jab, then the RH and hook and Lewis is doing his nap. Lewis would try to bully him like AJ did and get countered and hurt bad, just like AJ did. But Lewis wouldn't get up.

Fury would beat everyone Lewis fought, most likely, especially the short fighters. But if Fury got cocky and sucked in to playing around with Roid Briggs you never know, could get bombed out.

 

As always, should the term 'prime' be considered or just the fights, because both fought fighters not in their prime

 

Lewis wouldn't do Furys resume undefeated no way.

I think become undisputed though, avoid the drugs and carve out a better legacy than Fury did

 

He wouldn't do, history tells us this.

 

U dont think Lewis could beat Chisora 3 times? Beat Whyte either? Or Wallin.....Cunningham....or even Pianeta and Seferi?