Lennox Lewis's achievements are overrated

Retiring is worse

 

The dude spent 11 very active (for modern heavies) years in the very top echelon of the division, a division which was at the most dangerous in its history. What bigger sample size of his abilities do you need? Consider how long Dempsey was at the top and how inactive he was. Consider Marciano's quick stay at the top. Consider Liston's.

I rate Lewis at 3 or 4 given the day and how I feel about Holmes.

 

Holyfield past his prime yet was ranked the number 1 Heavyweight coming off 2 his best performances at Heavyweight outside of Bowe 2 against Moorer and Tyson.

If Lewis beating 13 ranked Heavyweights is overrated I can't imagine how you feel about the current Heavyweights now who don't even have half that amount of wins over ranked Heavyweights.

 

And those ranked heavyweights generally avoided eachother meanwhile struggling with an old Chisora and Povetkin

 

I don't think he is overrated except when people call him GOAT heavyweight, which is nonsense. Ali and Louis are clearly far ahead of him as far as we consider career achievements, Holmes is ahead too in my opinion. But anywhere from 4 to 10 is fine for me.

I have Lewis at #7 in my all-time HW rankings and top-5 H2H

 

Lewis made a good decision in retiring but he wasn't sure he could beat Vitali without the cut. If he was, certain, he would have rematched him.

Had he lost, it would have been said that he was past it but still his record wouldn't look as good.

 

Dude consider they both were not in their Prime.

 

What other heavyweights do you weigh your estimation so heavily upon performances at 37 or 38? Does Louis' loss to Marciano greatly effect his ranking? How about Jack Johnson losing to Willard? And Ali versus Spinks and Holmes?

Dude had eaten punches from Mason, Weaver, Ruddock, Bruno, Tucker, Butler, McCall, Morrison, Mercer, Golota (well, he was ready to eat them), Briggs, Holy, Grant, Botha, Tua, Rahman and Tyson, and Vitali, but you need more to really judge him properly? Get out of here with that nonsense.