Lennox Lewis lost to 2 journeyman. Should he be stripped of his ATG status

No. What a ridiculous question. Sometimes questions get asked on here and I have to question do you really know this fighter, did you watch or have you watched all of their fights. Lewis was an talented man, simple as that, ATG status not even close to being questionable.

 

Fury’s was KOd by a middleweight, without throwing a punch - and yet you drain his breeding stick like it’s your own.

Quick one - did Lennox fail a drug test like Fury?

 

Absolutely not. Those were two fluke losses, he avenged both. In heavyweight boxing knockouts like that can happen to the best fighters. It impresses me that he came back and embarrassed both in the rematch, shows his resiliency.

 

I would vote to prohibit him from doing ringside commenting because he sucks at that job but losing a couple times to guys who he rematched and defeated isn't that big a deal.

 

They wern't journeyman though ?

Oliver McCall was a solid contender with one of the best chins of all time.

Hasim Rahman was unlucky not to get the decision vs David Tua, and was robbed vs him in their 1st fight with a dubious stoppage after being well ahead on points. He also beat the very dangerous Corrie Sanders in a war to earn his shot at Lewis.

 

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Flawed premise from a poster who USED to be decent, now seems to be going down the 'Miniq' road of uselessness...

 

Neither Mcall nor Rahman were journeyman fighters. Both were in the upper echelons of the division at multiple stages of their careers.

 

Nah man. He beat everybody he's ever fought. He's an ATG and deserves all his accolades.

 

Was Leon Spinks a journey man?

 

It's not like he was comprehensively out boxed for an entire fight or totally out skilled. Based on the fact he beat those guys in the rematch shows that nobody had his number ala Tyson/Holyfield or more recently AJ/Usyk.

 

By this standard you could count the number of atg's on one hand.

 

I try not to judge posts too much on here. We all have differing opinions and the world would be a boring place if we all agreed. However, this is up there as one of the stupidest threads I have read. I didn’t like Lewis as a personality or particularly like watching him fight, but to say he is not an atg is ridiculous. If you are going to put forward a case for a fighter being stripped of being an atg( not that it is possible anyway) then at least put forward a more compelling reason. Losing 2 fights to solid fighters that were later avenged is laughable.

 

Rahmen and McCall are not journeymen, so no.