Lennox Lewis is overrated

Let it go....he owned Holyfield TWICE and no matter how many threads you create or anti-Lewis remarks you make, this will never change. Lewis owned Holyfield TWICE and this will never change. Period. End of story. Holyfield was the second best fighter of his era.

 

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Ruiz should have gottem the nod in the first fight.
Ruiz won the second.
The third was a draw, such a dreadful fight that it was one where truly there were no winners.

In reality, Ruiz should have been 2-0-1 against Holyfield.

 

IMO he was good defensively when he wanted to be and when he could control the fight with his jab. When he couldn't he took punches. I mean he took some hefty shots from Bruno, Tua, Klitschko, Mercer, Briggs, Holyfield and even Tyson and didn't look like going down. All those guys can punch (yes even Holyfield). If his chin was glass he would have been floored/KO'd in those fights.

 

Some boxers are so pathetic that you have to add motivated with them.

 

I have Lewis out of the top 10.:yep

 

Exactly, he definitely was a very impressive defencive fighter and an ATG at that.

I have him at #12 personally, as you already know that I downplay some of the oldest of older era fighters abilities compared to a post-60's, I do add in "era/era" comparisons and especially accomplishments for their set time period, so the guys that I'd say get starched if just matched straight up still take a high position with me for what they did for their time.

Dempsey ranks over Lewis in this regard, and if we are talking an "era/era" comparison of the matchup between Dempsey and Lewis, then Dempsey blasts Lewis in a round or two.

So it's not hard to rank Lewis out of the top 10 in reality, he's quite overrated in my opinion, even being a fantastic fighter who I did enjoy.

I am also not a "Lewis hater", I enjoyed most of his fights and he provided some thrills, I just do not like the overrating of Lennox Lewis and the fanboys of Lennox are especially ridiculous, some even listing him as "number 3" and H2H "number 1", give me a break!

 

While you can say Holyfield wouldn't have lost to Rahman or McCall, Lewis never would've lost to a 12 round decision to a glass jawed light heavyweight like Holyfield did, and Lewis was never totally dominated over 12 rounds like Holyfield was in Bowe I

Bowe never beat anyone of note before or after Holyfield, I don't see why people think he was "great". He was only a great fighter on one night, the first Holyfield fight. He had no defense and his outside game was adequate at best. Bowe was the beneficiary of matching up perfectly against Holyfield. Bowe would've been outboxed badly by Larry Holmes and would've been KTFO by Lewis and Tyson