Lennox Lewis vs Corrie Sanders

Mhm, it'd be a wild kind of fight while it lasted. Sanders was VERY agggressive when he wanted to be.

Against Wlad and Vitali, Bert Cooper, Czyz...

The huge majority of his fights are 1 and 2 rounders.

I'd put my money on Lennox blasting him out before three, Golota style.

 

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Don't agree with that.

Lewis didn't fold against the biggest punchers he faced. That's what Sanders is.

He floundered when once caught cold by a shot he didn't see coming, and another time when he was just overweight and stupid.

He'd know about Sanders.

 

While I won't discount that this could be a dangerous fight for Lewis, I highly doubt that he would get caught in the same fashion as Wlad. Lewis's defensive is simply better, and if he honestly felt a danger of getting KO'd he would keep Sanders on the outside for the first 3-4 rounds and then gradually become more aggressive. One of Lewis' strong points, which I don't think gets mentioned enough, is that he has the versatility to use various options, and he was a pretty intellegence fighter, as he seemed to know when to get aggressive and blow a fighter out, (ie Grant) verses simply control the fight from a distance (Tua). Although with the latter one could argue that if he was more aggressive he would have blown him too out, but who's to say with any degree of certainly, given Tua's chin. But certainly Sanders could crack and an unfocused Lewis could get both hit and hurt, but it's not a likely scenario.

 

Part of Wlad getting caught was a horrible corner that wasn't keeping him on his toes or anything else, really.

Lennox would have a great corner at the time of this fight.

 

Im not taking anything from Sanders, one of the better and more quality fighters of his time , but Lennox i'd take everytime, just too great a fighter

 

If Sanders fought (also in South-Africa, his home town ironically) instead of Rahman against Lewis in their first fight, then he has an excellent chance of upsetting Lewis but getting knocked out in a rematch.

Against the Lewis that fought Vitali Klitschko he has a very good chance, too.


But against a focused and/or younger Lewis, his odds are slim.

I've never seen Lewis against a southpaw though - nevermind one with fast hands and great power.

 

Sanders chin is weird.

He was stopped early in his career by medicore punchers.

He showed a granite chin, seemingly motivated, against Vitali.

He was stopped in one round by a bodyshot in his last fight.

Da' ****kk.

 

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Vitali arm-punched his way through that fight. Many of his rights had about as much snap as rice crispies that had been in milk for three hours.

Sanders had a dodgy chin, but also an awkward style for Lennox: I think Lewis's overhand right would be rather inneffective against a southpaw, and his right uppercut would be very dangerous to throw if one considers Sanders's counter-left-cross. It's also worth noting that jabs are almost always useless against a southpaw (at the worst) or just a means of keeping the southpaw's right hand occupied (at best). Rahman and Vitali beat Sanders with their straight right hands, which were both very good at what they used them for.

However, Lewis could throw straight lead right hands if he had to; he also had a sneaky check hook. The difference in skill level would also really tell and despite his handspeed I think Sanders would have difficulty in finding flush shots to land on Lewis, due to Lewis being very conscious of Corrie's power.

I can see this resembling the Shannon Briggs fight: Lewis would look rather clumsy and have to resort to second (and third, and fourth) winds against an awkward and ultra-brave opponent. He could get caught by a counter and be staggered, but I just don't think Sanders had the class to finish off someone of Lewis's calibre, even if he hurt him.

I'd expect Lewis to KO Sanders between the 4rth and 7th rounds.

 

Lets face it , No one would want to fight Sanders(VLADS people were not smart) Lewis was a better fighter in everyway but even he would have to be carefull to take that fight...I wanted to see that fight because Sanders had fast hands, hard punch and tricky southpaw style, a fight vs Lewis could be an upset but a care full Lewis would stop Corrie...Sanders was never really 100% FIT, EVEN WHEN HE FOUGHT RAHMAN HE COULD NOT GET ANY ROADWORK IN BECAUSE OF A LEG INJURY but make no mistake about it Corrie could hit and Lewis was slower and would get hit early....definate DANGER IMO

 

Did you miss the fact that Vitali is the size of ****ing Godzilla and equally strong?

Or the slow motion replays of Sander's jaw opening and salvia flying out Ike vs. Byrd style?

He was getting whacked. Period.