Lennox Lewis vs dedicated Morrison

Lewis, by KO.

 

dedicated Morrison.... jesus...

 

Like in the NBA, you give the home team 3 points for home court advantage no matter how bad they are. In boxing, you give a puncher a 10% chance no matter how bad they are. I'll say Morrison detonates a left hook bomb on Lewis and puts him to sleep 1 out of 10 fights.

 

Terrible exaggeration. You realize Lewis was only stopped ONCE off his feet? He was up on his feet on the only other stoppage loss to McCall. If he was so glass jawed, he’d have lost a lot more.

 

Pathetic thread.....have another try

 

Dedicated Morrison may very well get stopped earlier and more brutally because he's gonna take more risks.

 

Always

 

"People spent years pretending he was robust because he took shots from Vitali, who turned out to be feather fisted for his size and had nowhere near the power of his brother."

Indeed.

In Vitali's 19 wins post-Mahone, 15 went past 7 rounds. Game domestic level fighters in Danny Williams and Albert Sosnowski took Vitali's power and volume to the 8th and 10th respectively. And Vitali's 4 wins that finished under 7 completed rounds were either injury-based (Solis, Charr) or quit jobs (Norris, Kirk Johnson). Vitali did shake Lewis up a bit but he wasn't able to hurt blown-up LHW Byrd at any point in his loss over 9 rounds, and as always not for a lack of trying.

So from a purely statistical point of view based on Vitali's record, 6 full rounds would never be enough for Vitali to beat anyone above domestic level who didn't have a terrible chin or a glass ticker, unless they sustained an injury.

 

Morrison was a fun fighter to watch, and I do believe that he did underachieve a bit in his career. But he also had some fundamental flaws that weren't fixable. He had stamina issues, questionable durability and he was always poor defensively. Sure, it's likely he could have won in a few fights if they fought a hundred times just because of the tremendous power in his left hook. He was a very good combination fighter when he was in close and mid-range, though.

But something I will say about Lewis. People look down on him because of the Rahman and McCall knockouts. But when he respected his opponent as a legitimate threat and was focused going into a fight, he was always incredibly sharp. He was a fighter that needed that fear factor to be at his absolute best, and he was never going to look past a puncher as dangerous as Morrison.

Lewis did a very good job in their first of blocking Morrison's left hook with his arm, too. He was always going to blast him with the jab and then build off that. Feint with the double jab to fire the left hook. Use the jab to drop down the right hand. Pump fake and then hit with the real jab. The huge reach and skill advantage with that jab is just so hard to overcome.

Morrison was landing some heavy body shots, but it seems to me that these "super heavyweights" are so tremendously thick in the torso that it's very hard to hurt them to the body if they're in proper condition. Morrison would have to catch Lewis cold during a momentarily lapse in focus when he was backing up to the ropes or something, and that was very hard to do when Lewis was on form.

 

Morrison is one of my favourite fighters, very exciting to watch, but Lewis is the h2h goat.