Lennox Lewis vs Deontay Wilder

Lewis v Grant all over again. Lewis by vicious KO in maximum two rounds, and good likelihood within one round.

For the record I like Wilder but Lewis is stylistically all wrong for him, would neutralise his reach and height advantage and has an insanely good right hand just like Wilder. Wilder always, even against Lewis, has a puncher's chance, but 90% this fights lasts less then 4-5 minutes with Wilder brutally knocked out like Grant was.

 

Wilder could upset the worst versions of Lewis but a usually well prepared Lewis simply walks through him, Wilder just isn't on Lewis' level.

 

If they fought 10 times Wilder could catch lightning in and bottle a KO Lewis, but I tend to think Lewis wouldn't be lackluster vs a dangerous puncher in Wilder and would take him seriously hence Lewis by KO in 6 rounds.

 

A focused Lennox Lewis convincingly knocks him out.

 

Lewis would fold him like a faulty wheelchair.

 

Massive mismatch.

We're talking arguably the H2H best heavyweight ever against a limited fighter with a big right hand and little else.

Arguably the best/only chance Wilder would've had is that Lewis would've known it was a massive mismatch and underestimated him - Lewis had form for that... But even if that happened, it'd be brutally avenged without getting out of second gear.

 

trying to purely outbox Wilder would be too risky. To win Lewis would need to try and blast him out early, which he time and time again showed he can do. Lewis TKO5

 

Similar to the Briggs fight athough Wilder is better than Briggs imo.

 

Lewis is the H2H GOAT man. Right now I can't think of one boxer that I would pick over Lennox in a fantasy fight.

Wilder has like a 5% KO chance or something , but cmon... There's levels to this sh*t.

 

This is pretty much how I see it.

 

Lennox would keep Wilder at bay with that beautiful jab he had. Then BING right hand down the pipe

 

Sometimes I'm not w/ the majority. For one big reason I don't worship the 40 to 50+ years ago HWs in h2h vs. modern HWs like many do here.

But I'm easily w/ the lopsided view here. I think Lennox beats Wilder 9 of 10 (mostly via stoppage). But Wilder has an outside chance to catch and stop LL. It's not like it's unprecedented.