Lennox Lewis is great but

“Avoids Foreman” lmao

 

Did not win his first title but was elevated to it after the fact hardly his fault, Bowe dumped the belt

Loses to McCall in a cherrypick gone wrong Yes but he did avenge it

Narrowly beats Mercer in a result booed by fans he has later admitted he too believes he lost. Mercer also gave Holyfield a hard fight and knocked out Morrison, hardly a bum

Avoids Foreman, cherrypicks Golota Golota just beat up Bowe twice and was in his prime, I don't think I would call this a cherry pick

Gets a draw with Holyfield, an 80s champion, in 1999. That draw is highly disputed.

Never defends undisputed because he's cherrypicking Grant instead Grant was undefeated and hyped before the bout


Fights Mike Tyson, champion in the 80s, in 2002 It was a massive payday, who could fault him for taking the fight. Even Vitali Klitschko tried making a Tyson fight

Refuses Chris Byrd Nobody at the time thought Byrd was a serious threat

I'm not saying Lennox is immune to criticism. I just do not agree with all of your points.

 

Lewis didn’t avoid foreman. Foreman ( for as much as I praise him ) was the one picking and choosing fights. And I don’t know how Golata was a cherry picked given that he had just thrashed Riddick Bowe from pillar to post twice. He took step aside money from Tyson so that the Holyfield fight could happen. Had he not, the fight would have happened anyway and Lewis would have gotten nothing except maybe a discarded alphabet title ( something he was used to. ). About the only thing I agree with is that at some point he probably should have fought Chris Byrd.

 

I'm alternatively glad and sad to see another one of the sport's giants taken to the whipping post here. I'm not singling out the original poster. It happens in every sport.

 

Bowe was in his prime lol you can't be serious

 

No you misread my post. He beats Bowe twice and (Golota) was in his prime

 

I love Foreman but no way was wanted any part of Lewis. All wrong for him and LL would have handily outpointed him in a probably dull, routine type fight.

 

Peak for peak would have been a great fight. Against Old George it would have looked like Holyfield-Holmes and Holyfield-Foreman.

 

Could be but what was right about Lewis for Foreman was even at his best he could be one-shotted into defeat as shown by McCall an Rahman an old Foreman could throw big one shots as well as anyone

 

Holyfield had a better chin than Lewis. Not sure Lewis could’ve taken all the clean shots that Old Foreman landed on Holyfield

 

Lewis being KO'd by McCall happened when he was still raw but the Rahman KO loss is a legitimate criticism against Lewis. He got complacent and paid the price.

However, I very much doubt he would have been complacent against Foreman and instead would have outboxed him from a distance. (Morrison managed it after all).

 

Suggesting Lewis avoided Foreman is wild when Foreman never fought a single top 10 opponent after the Moorer win.

 

So what tho that he fought for Canada in the Olympics.?
People who don't like Lewis always throw that at him.
He made his decision to base himself in the country of his birth.
What difference does it make to his actual pro career?

To me it just seems sour grapes, that an English guy came along and beat the top Americans.
Let's face it, the US has never recovered with its heavyweight s since.
A wee bit of the old green jealously perhaps...