Lennox Lewis vs Nikolay Valuev

maybe so but then again jabs arent always about height, mike tyson often out jabbed people 5 - 6 inches bigger than him because the timing of his shots was tremendous , now take lewis who is a very good jabber with very good timing against a slow and cumbersome fighter who uses his head as a defence barrier. only one outcome valuev KTFO.

 

lennox would kill this guy. valuev is very slow and a stationary target. probably early/mid round stoppage on his feet. wlad would do the same thing to him

 

Valuev is 7'0 320lbs. Those people are as rare as 6'6 240lbs men in the 20's. As a consequence, Valuev has mediocre talent at best. He has been trained pretty well in that he keeps a fairly good guard and has a good jab, but he is too slow, has too little power and his defense is too weak. A big guy with tremendous talent like Lewis will beat a relatively untalented huge guy like Valuev.

Valuev has never fought anyone as accurate, powerful, adaptable or skilled as Lewis.

 

I don't give Valuev much of a chance here. Valuev while having great size, lacks in many ring fundamentals and is very slow to say the least. His power is virtually non existant, and his best performances were decisions over a shot Larry Donald and faded John Ruiz. These fighters can hardly be compared to a prime Lewis. Valuev is nothing more than a tree that Lewis would chop down, weather it took 2 rounds or 12. In the end, Valuev would be a battered mess, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he'd give a game effort.

 

, enough said regarding this thread.

 

Are you being the Devil's advocate again, Janitor?

I know your views regarding size... this statement doesn't fit with those views.

 

I really don't think Lewis is going to be looking for a jabbing decision anyway, he was almost always very aggressive against his larger opponents. He would usually even mix in some body shots (easier to reach a bigger torso I guess).

I think he would push to try to get a stoppage, and a consistant worry for me about Valuev (because I actually quite like the big lug) is his lack of head movement. If you can wing a shot up that high - and even Owen Beck was able to - then you can land. And even with seemingly as good a chin as Valuev has, no ref is going to let a puncher like Lewis bounce rights and lefts off Valuev's stubbly noggin without stopping the fight.

And that's how I see it ending. Lewis with repeated shots to the head until the ref steps in for Valuev's safety. On the basis of Valuev's career so far, I don't have enough faith in either his defence or his skill to think otherwise.

 

This sounds about right.

 

Valuev is much too slow and ackward to last more than 4 rounds, Lewis himself is not all that good to start off with. Lewis's only saving grace is his jab, otherwise Lewis is an average boxer. If Lewis faced a young George Foreman or an Ali, He'd never won the belt.

 

Valuev might last the distance, but christ... His face is going to be hamburger at the end.

 

Common,

Everybody knows that the bigger modern heavyweights always prevail against the smaller fighters who preceeded them.

 

Hahhaa, that's funny now that I think about it.

Imagine, 20 years from now all fighters are 7'3 and 350 pounds.

DEM' 6'5 BUMS FROM THE 90'S WOULDN'T STAND A CHANCE.

So says the forum members in the year 2027.

 

Yeah men like Ali, Holmes, Louis, Marciano, Lewis, and Tyson will probably be revered as little more than journeyman and tomato cans by 2027.

 

You really believe that. Ruslan Chagaev, who is smaller than Lewis, did that with a fair well. Even Ruiz ran him close.Common,

Woddy, are you really serious.