Lennox Lewis: the Clever Con-Artist

another typical yank who can't give the man his dues.

Lewis is a heavyweight great plain and simple, live with it!

 

What do you mean you can't discount losses? It's done all the time. How many boxing fans count Louis's late career loss to Marciano against him? Or suggest that Ali's loss in 1980 to Holmes says anything about his relative greatness when compared to other HWs. No, these losses are rightfully disregarded.

So it should be with Holyfield. His late career losses should not be counted against him when assessing his relative claims to greatness. Outside of his loss to Bowe, all of Holyfield's losses occurred after he was past his best. And only the loss to Lewis occured when he was still a factor in the HW division.

If you think Holyfield has been a top HW in the last ten years, you haven't been paying attention. He's a "name" HW collecting a paycheck off that name. It's a sad but commmon occurance in pro boxing. And it shouldn't be held against fighters in assessing their overall place in the sport. In time, it won't be.

 

the fight should have happened before it did.

Tyson refused the fight earlier in 1996 and was stripped of his WBC title, either that was King, from a business perspective, didn't want it to happen.

either way Lewis would have fought him!

 

I think you're a weirdo with a chin fetish, Zakman... but I agree 100% with the bolded.

 

Hoylfield has chosen to continue fighting, and chosen to tarnish his legacy. Whether you discount them or not, he still has losses to John Ruiz, Larry Donald etc. And when he is ranked, these losses will be taken into consideration. His record will always be 43-10-2, and that will count against him. In his absolute prime, Lewis only lost to Hasim Rahman. In his absolute prime, Holyfield lost to Moorer and Bowe twice (One KO loss). In his prime, Holyfields resume tops Lewis's, but it's based on a whole career. And his losses speak volumes.

 

And thus Lewis has never lost.

He was pre-Prime against McCall and past it v Rahman.

The difference is he was still better than the rest when he was past it.

 

Holyfield has been knocked out as many times as Lewis. If you think Lewis has a glass jaw, then you're ******ed.

Join who?

 

Why do people still bring up this glass jaw bull****?

The fact is he avenged both of his losses in style.

 

Fixed.

 

Lennox Lewis KO1 Andrew Golota
Lennox Lewis TKO6 Vitali Klitschko
Lennox Lewis TKO2 Donovan Ruddock

 

I'd hardly say that he took McCall out in style when McCall was so disturbed that he has a breakdown in the ring. It was nothing short of fighting someone that night who was mentally handicapped