most fair people would tell you Lewis beat Holyfield twice and Holy wasn't a lumbering bum, he was a ATG imo. I enjoyed the Cooper vs Dewitt fight you linked in the other thread, what a mismatch :good
Not exactly. But just pointing out that it would be interesting to see how Lewis fights these smaller cagey fighters. Whenever these topics come up, it's "Lewis blows him out of the ring" etc. But actually some of those smaller cagey skilful boxers might have given Lewis a decent fight ..... a lot better than, say, "well equipped super behemoths" such as Golota and Grant managed.
That's true, and a notable fight for both men. I think Holyfield was a few fights past his prime at least, but Lewis certainly showed he could box a bit. :good Yeah, it's a good one. DeWitt was hoped to win by his home crowd too.
I think if an older Lewis around 2003 had taken Chris Byrd he might have had some problems with him. But mind you Lennox was in the twilight of his career and Byrd wasn't exactly a small man at 6'1" 215 lbs. Still his movement and skills could have caused some issues. But a fully primed Lewis against Archie? I don't know about that one.
Well, there's so little to go on with Lewis. We know he often boxed cautious or thought of himself as some sort of chess-boxer, I could imagine him being puzzled and cautious, or just biding his time, with a shell/crouch style and a trap-setting counter-puncher such as Archie in front of him. I don't know either. Lewis was a little unpredictable. No one expected the 'skinny' Mavoric or the ordinary Billups to last the distance with Lewis, nor did they expect apparently huge danger men like Ruddock, Golota and Grant to be blasted aside with such immediate aggression. Lewis didn't face Byrd or some of the other 'awkward types' (Ruiz) or the smaller or southpaw fighters (Moorer) of his era. Hard to say what would happen, but we probably didn't miss any great fights because of it.