Lennox Lewis had an Iron chin

lennox lewis does NOT have an "iron" chin...

 

Vitalys punch is overated..he wear his opponets down with lot of punches and mostly in later rounds. Altought, his boxing skills are underrated..

 

Many people WAY overrate this guy. This is only one of the more ridiculous examples of it.:nut

 

Lewis didn't have an iron chin, not even his biggest fans would claim that - but he did have an extremely good chin, which is something his haters will never admit.

 

Still sore from the two utter ownings he dished out on Evander I see :deal

 

His chin was not iron, but it was good, and very underrated. He was never even down aside from the two bombs he took against McCall and Rahman, two heavy hitters. He was nowhere near his best for the fight with Rahman anyway, out of shape and sloppy. He avenged that loss with a highlight reel KO of his own. He was also caught by McCall, who's bomb he got up from, but the ref decided to stop the fight anyway. Aside from those two instances he took shots from the biggest punchers of the era(some very good ones as well, as the vid showed) and never went down.

That tells me he had a good chin.

 

The haters forget that - that was a dreadful stoppage. He may or may not have still lost the fight anyway but we never got chance to find out. Other champions that have got to their feet have been given time to recover by referees once they were up, I believe Holyfield to be one of them. If Lewis had been given that luxury then who knows?

 

Why are there always such a litany of excuses for this guy?? He was "nowhere near his best???" More like he had nowhere near the best whiskers!! :yep

Whatever excuses are thrown around, it won't change the FACT that Lewis is the only top level HW champ taken out twice in the early rounds by second rate fighters. The only one. :nod

 

Foreman and Louis didn't have anywhere near the best whiskers either, it doesn't seem to affect their standing too much :yep

Is Holyfield the only top level (is he even top level?) heavyweight to have been KO'd by a middleweight, by the way?

 

Underrating Holyfield as always I see. Like it matters that he went down from a body shot and his HANDLERS threw in the towel in the NINTH round against Toney when he was 40 frikkin' years old!! atsch

Oh, and by the way, he was hardly "owned" in the second Lewis fight, which quite a few ringside journalists thought should have gone his way. After the first fight, all Lewis had to get the nod in that one was be standing at the final bell. :yep

Luckily for him, his shaky whiskers didn't give out THAT time!!

 

Holyfield was owned in both fights with Lewis, he never even made a dent, despite his usual filthy head-butting tactics, they worked against a crude fighter like past his best Tyson but against Lennox it meant ****, he still lost by a big margin in both fights - the second fight was closer than the first due only to Lennox's anxiety and stupidity in believing he had to go toe to toe to win, which left him in the firing line for Evanders 'third fist' - but it didn't matter he still strolled away with an 8-4 decision on any sane persons scorecard.

I don't give a **** how old Holyfield was when he lost to that ex middleweight, Lewis would beat Toney easily without even bothering to train I'd bet. HUGE difference in skills and size and power. Holyfield will always be remembered as a great cruiserweight, but great heavyweight? **** no, his career at heavy is just too patchy, too many losses.

 

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I agree