Lennox Lewis vs Joe Frazier

You're lonely in here because you have an unrealistic, idealistic view of a fighter instead of looking at said fighter in an objective manner. Moreover, you completely ignore the styles of both fighters in question and ignore the results of fights where the opponents of Lewis were somewhat similar (Tyson and Tua).

Styles make fights. It's an old axiom and a true one. Another one is that generally, a long armed puncher beats a short armed puncher. And finally, where you have 2 guys of roughly equal talent and skill, the bigger guy usually will win.

Frazier can knock Lewis the **** out but only if Lewis takes Frazier lightly. Realistically, what is the chance of that happening? Lewis is far more likely to get knocked out by a Cleveland Williams or Earnie Shavers, guys he does not consider that highly, rather than a dangerous foe like Frazier.

 

I like Lewis overall to win but lets not overlook Fraziers hook, I see Lennox being cafefull and boxing but standing to let Joe feel his power, Lennox feels joes hook and decides to box and use his reach but if the fight goes past 5 rounds look for Joes stamina to be a factor. Lennox sd 15

 

Lewis wins easy. He had the equal of Foreman's right hand and uppercut, except he was more skilled and had even faster hands. Fraizer has a chance early, but he has to get past Leiws' jab, and land a real chin checker before he's taken out early.

Lewis via TKo inside 5.

 

Lewis was good at avoiding left hooks. He did a pretty good job at avoiding Tua's.

Lewis by KO

 

You obviously didn't read my whole post,

I clearly favoured Lewis in this matchup, but merely listed some of Frazier's qualities.

A bit of advice for the future : :readthre: OR :stfu

 

I'll agree with McVey on the power front, the Frazier right hand generated anything but devastating power and was impotent when compared to the left. It was once famously uttered that Frazier only used his right hand to wave bye, bye, and pick his nose. Highly exaggerated but the general point comes thru.

 

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=743


Ps: Lewis, by close decision. Or late stoppage. :good

 

I picked Lewis, but I feel that Frazier has a decent chance of an upset.

Physically, Frazier is outmatched. Lewis is a lot bigger and has more options at his disposal. Frazier though, had that indomitable courage and never-say-die attitude that made him so difficult to beat.
I don't see a blowout and I see Frazier having his moments for sure. Nobody outside George Foreman (imo) has the capacity to blow out Frazier.

This will in all likelihood be a hard-fought fight. We must be realistic about Lewis here. He was a tremendous fighter, but it's not like he just waded in there and destroyed people left and right. There were quite a few fights where he looked fairly ordinary and his vaunted power just didn't crack his opponent's chin.

If you have a good chin, apply relentless pressure and can punch, then you're a handful for just about anyone. Frazier may just be the best pressure fighter in history at heavyweight.

Still, at the end of the day I think Lewis would previal, mainly because he has more options at his disposal. but it won't be easy.

 

Dont think Tua threw that many ,after sampling a couple of right hands and eating some jabs ,it was him concentrating on avoiding more of them .

 

Alis quoted opinion was that Frazier was easy to hit with the jab,and looking at his face after their fights I would agree.

 

The thing is, he made Ali miss a lot of times, but Ali also got through plenty of times. Especially in the first five rounds. If those were Lewis right hands instead of Ali right hands, things look bad for Joe.

 

:good

We are talking about ATG's here after all. Nobody is an easy fight at this level.