Lennox Lewis: the Clever Con-Artist

I agree with that. A gold medal clearly meant something to him, and he was great in achieving that goal.

 

For ****s sakes:roflatsch

 

God i,d ****in love to bump into you.

 

Lennox gets a free pass on being 2 years older than Bowe yet not fighting Holyfield the best Heavy of the 90s until 1999.

Lewis getting knocked the **** out cold by Mccall supposedly derailed fights against Bowe and Holyfield:roll:

 

So you must have missed Bowe throwing the belt in the trash can rather than fight Lewis?

 

Lewis was good, but not in my top 10 of ATG's, which incidentally looks like this:

Muhammad Ali
Mike Tyson
Joe Louis
Rocky Marciano
Jack Dempsey
Joe Frazier
Larry Holmes
George Foreman
John L. Sullivan
Jack Johnson


Lewis is overrated.

 

Not even George Foreman agrees with you:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV5AMRL5-Hc[/ame]

 

No question. RIDICULOUSLY SO Here's my list:

1. Ali
2. Louis
3. Dempsey
4. Foreman
5. Holmes
6. Marciano
7. Holyfield
8. Johnson
9. Liston
10. Frazier

Nice to see there are others who recognize how absurdly overrated Lewis is by some boxing fans.

 

I wasn't going to post on to this thread, because there's simply too many idiots on it. But one thing for sure, Tyson or any other boxer would have given their left nut to have won an olympic gold metal. These guys don't start boxing in their 20's, most start in their teens and their whole focus is trying to win the gold metal. The simple fact is that Tyson couldn't make the US olympic team, so he had no choice but to turn pro. Lewis had more options, and had he won gold in '84 he wouldn't have fought in the olympics in '88.

But why you'd make it out like fighting for a gold metal for your country is a bad thing, is a mystery to me. Tyson would have loved to have been where Lewis was, and Bowe too would have loved to have walked away with the gold.

 

Apparently you need to have the WBC belt to make a fight? Bowe held the IBF and WBA belts, he wanted nothing to do with the WBC so he threw that belt away and tried to make a fight with Lennox after wards.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-05-14/sports/1993134195_1_lewis-newman-dan-duva

Lennox and bowe finally signed to fight in 94 but Lennox got ko'd by Oliver Mccall:roll:

 

Dempsey doesn't deserve to above Lewis. No way.

 

Not a bad list but no way Foreman is 4th, in fact I have no idea, on what basis, other than the very well managed come back could he possibly rate that high.. good place to put Lewis actually.

And as for Dempsey, I love the way he fights, read a bio of him a couple of years ago, but he simply didn't have enough title defenses to be 3rd all time, what criteria are you using to get him that high? Certainly not his opposition, or his title defenses, or his longivity on the top, so 3rd would be a good place to put Holmes.

 

So what if Bowe got Silver, that was his only Olympics. Lennox competed in the Olympics twice, he didn't even medal his first attempt. Bowe quickly turned pro after his first Olympics and quickly became undisputed Heavyweight champion of the world, Lennox never became undisputed until 1999.