Lennox Lewis is overrated

I thought you meant the Holyfield-Tyson fights.

Yeah, Holyfield was the slight favorite and ranked very high on the p4p rankings entering the LL fight.

Holyfield did look poor against Bean, but was prone to fighting to the level of opposition.

Also, it was Holyfield who turned down the unification bout when it was supposed to take place in 1998. There was a lot of hype and push for the fight in late 1997, after Lewis impressively stopped Golota in one round and Holyfield won an entertaining rematch with Moorer. Holyfield wanted more money, which he got when they fought in March 1999. He got around $20 mil.

 

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Oh man, PLEASE don't start with that.

 

He's also not quite straight.

 

Who won?

 

I think it was the 37 year old guy who was undertrained and hadn't fought in a year, and was laid out by Oleg Maskaev's son the last time he showed up for a fight undertrained. And that was when he was at least more active.

But Vitali did win the event.

 

37 you say? :think

That rings a bell..... :think

 

would lewis be more appreciated if he was american?

not a nationist question or anything like that, im simply wondering - would the perception of lewis be different if he was american?

 

:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

You know nothing.

 

Yes very overratted especially over the likes of Holyfield ..

 

The arguments for rating Lennox over Holy AT HEAVYWEIGHT (not P4P) have been comprehensively spelled out for you in this thread.

I have yet to see a reasonable response that satisfactorily counters thise arguments. Unless you are going to offer an argument, statements like the one you just posted are worth slightly less than zero.

Thanks for bumping the thread, but otherwise try actually saying something next time instead of cluttering the thread with meaningless noise. :good

 

he pummeled bowe in the amateurs

 

Zak...if he's not American, then he's overrated...simple as that!:yep

 

If anything, he's underrated.

 

He would have pummeled Bowe at any stage of their careers.

 

Not to the extent you think he is so I disagree.