Lennox Lewis is overrated

Bowe obviously did not share your confidence, and with good reason.

He was a bit more realistic about the likely outcome.

 

He won't answer direct questions that challenge his warped and biased point of view. Zakman must be warped and biased on this subject or an out and out moron.

Take your pick..

 

Even around 1993, the best version of Bowe could never have fought the best version of Lewis because Bowe would enter a ring with Lewis mentally weakened and scared at any point in his career. Lewis was great on capitalizing when he sensed fear/weakness and would have taken Bowe out fairly early. This would not be a real reflection on Bowe's ability, just of his inability to bring in the physical, mental, and emotional aspects necessary for him to beat Lewis.

 

Now there's a grossly overrated fighter.

 

With light punching guys like Tua,Briggs,Golata,Ruddock,Vitaly in there 'prime" I guess they couldn't get to Lewis Chin either could they. they are noticeably missing from Evander's resume, I guess he was too busy fighting Bean or having a trilogy with the "Quite Man"

 

You could say the same for Holyfield, he only faced a spent Tyson and a past his best Lewis, if all you're talking is numbers. It's also a fact that Riddick Bowe dropped a belt and split the heavyweight division, rather than face Lennox Lewis. Lewis wasn't the one that chickened out, Bowe was.

 

Lewis is probably one of the most overrated heavyweights in history. He got 90% of his hype from the nutthuggers at HBO, seeing that he was their guy and tried to push him down the publics throats. The funny thing was it didn't work, that's why Lewis was never a popular champion with the fans.

 

the guy is 6'5 and around 250+ odd pounds, his size HAS lot to do with his success, prettty much like Valuev building a bullsh*t record..

 

We can't really compare Holyfield only facing Tyson in 1996 because that was all set before Tyson went to prison. Holyfield wasn't waiting for Tyson to get old. Who knows what kind of Tyson we would have had then, but he would have probably been more similar to the 1996 version than the Michael Spinks version. In other words, similar result.

Even though we can't go into fighters' minds and measure these things, Bowe being reluctant to fight Lewis is as about as sure of a thing as you can hypothesize in this area.

 

Hey Zak, I took the liberty to rewatch and analyse several Bowe fights, including the two with Golota and and the first with Evander and I am going to have to agree with you that a peak Bowe gets Lennox early...

Hell, the Bowe from Golota 2 has a damn good shot at getting him in the vein of my original prediction scenerio.

Bowe deserves more respect! I had seen his fights and new he was damn good, but in rewatching them under the pretense of analysing for "fantasy match ups", he's actually a serious fight for most in history peak/peak, what a fighter.

 

I'll give you something that is not speculation but facts:

-Lewis TKO2 Bowe in amatures

-Bowe dropped his belt to avoid Lewis and make "big money" fights with Jesse ****ing Fergusson and a washed up Dokes.


Yes, you may state now that amature results have no bearing on pro fights, but let's face it, it's always good to already have a win over him. Better than a stoppage loss anyway. Mental edge and all that. And apparantly Bowe wasn't very confident in his chance against Lewis otherwise he wouldn't have dropped his belt to avoid him.

 

if Lennox Lewis was over rated, explain how the hell he was able to stop Briggs when Sergi and Sultan could not? and keep in mind this was Shannon Briggs in his prime about ten years ago and who was much better conditioned for that fight than he is now.