Lewis vs. Chambers

Unlike Wlad Lewis has an inside game. I really like Eddie, but against Lewis it seems to be even more hopeless as against Wlad.

 

Watch the fight, and here's the press from the time, does it not sound look like a write up of Wlad/Thompson:

The first three rounds of this bout saw Lewis circling, jabbing lazily, seeming to have little interest in the contest, while Mavrovic -- perhaps simply from hanging around -- got brave, even daring to push Lewis back to the ropes with a tame but flashy volley in the third.

Lewis doing what appeared to be the minimum he thought he needed. At no time was anyone knocked down or hurt, and the whole affair was relatively free of drama or shifts of momentum. It all
seemed like the world's largest open workout, hardly a shot in the arm to a man who has always worn the tag of "boring fighter."

"Oh yeah, when have you EVER seen Holyfield in a war? He is so safety first it is unreal. :smoke "

Yeah, Holfyield/Lewis was such a war. Holyfield pressed the fight maybe 3 of those 24 god awful rounds but spent the rest trying to deflect jabs from midrange while throwing very minimal in return...hmmmmm.

 

I'll grant you that I haven't seen Lewis/Mav in a long time but I do NOT remember it going down that way at all. And I never, ever thought of prime Holy as a safety first fighter. And what do you mean have I ever seen him in a war? Um, yes. Yes, I have. The Bowe fights, certainly, at least. I'm just not getting you on this one, mate. Unless it's sarcasm. Which often doesn't read well online.

 

Okay, and here is another report:



It was reasonable to assume that yet another of Croatia's sporting heroes of 98 would bring the heart of a patriot and a will of iron to his battle with Lewis. But no one was to know he had a granite jaw as well.
One right uppercut from Lewis not only lifted him off his feet but sliced open a five-stitch gash in the point of his jaw. Several others would have seper-ated most other boxers from their senses.

Yet Mavrovic did not go down once. The mountainous lumps and vivid weals gave his face the impression of having been hit by a London bus rather than by a born-again Londoner and he lost by a street.
Yet he was still punching away at the finish, still trying to exhaust the stamina and quench the desire of Britain's holder of the WBC version of the world championship

And you are basing Holyfields first fight with Lewis as a measure of how exciting he was to watch?

I guess you missed the Qawi, Bowe, Cooper and Mercer fights then? :roll:

 

-Watched it recently....Lewis/Mav was not pretty. I had forgot about it until someone else actually brought up in contrast to Wlad/Thompson. Very similar fights.

-Oh, I was actually responding to another quote who was being sarcastic. God no, prime Evander was not saftey first but it wasn't prime Evander against Lewis. Holyfield crafted a more defensive saftey first style after the Bowe knockout loss, and he did a great job of protecting himself against Lewis, problem was he really didn't get any type of offense going save for a spacious flurry or two per fight. Considering Lewis was also saftey first it was two very boring low punch output fights.

 

This bored me to tears:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxNjFn1kTTU[/ame]

And this is pretty much how I remember the Mav/Lewis fight:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVHCcbaWpzw[/ame]

 

-lol...I'd say the one I posted is a much more accurate description of the fight. That sounds pretty flowerly. Here's Sports Illustrated's Take:

Lewis (34-1) appeared tired by the third round. By the 11th round, he would land a punch and then drape himself over Mavrovic like a huge cape. Emanuel Steward, Lewis's trainer, said he and his fighter kept disagreeing over strategy during the fight. Steward wanted Lewis to be more aggressive, but Lewis kept waiting to land a knockout punch.
''I wanted him to throw the right hand,'' Lewis said, ''because every time he throws the right hand he lifts his elbow and I wanted to hit him with the uppercut.''
The only problem was that Mavrovic threw few punches. According to CompuBox statistics, Mavrovic threw 298 punches (an average of 25 per round) and landed 132, while Lewis threw 507 punches and landed 216. Mavrovic, the European heavyweight champion for the past three years, proved his chin was durable. He had also been in survival mode. After he was made the World Boxing Council's No. 1 contender, Mavrovic trained but did not fight competitively. He had been out of the ring for 342 days before he fought Lewis.

In just six rounds, Vitali threw almost 432 punches against Lewis. Please tell me with a straight face that Mavrovic pressured Lewis more? Mavrovic had no real threatening power or offensive effort to push Lewis into a fight like Vitali, simple as that. He did not allow Lewis to cruise round after round and wait.

Funny, Thompson actually threw over 400 punches against Wlad. He was actually way more aggressive than Mavrovic was against Lewis.

-Certainly not. I was only speaking in regards to the Lewis bout. Not sure how you so grossly misread me.

 

I see the quotes now. I was pretty baffled there. :yep

 

Its cool.

 

Yep

 

Chambers by brutal KO

Lewis is just too small, not powerful enough, and doesn't have Wlads killer instinct to be able to take him out so convincincingly as the Ukranian

 

Are you a ****ing looney?

I rate Chambers, but put him in the ring with Lennox and he would get ktfo even earlier than last time out.

 

Of course it is flowery. It contradicts what you have stated.

VITLAY?

Why bring him up?

Did I even mention him?

Going by just punch stats alone is not an accurate measure of how aggresive a fighter was.

Why would Holyfield, who rarely fights in a safety first manner all of a sudden do it against Lewis?

 

Exactly.

 

I can easily see Chambers and Arreola beating Axel Schulz, who was an OK contender in the 90's, who got robbed against Foreman, made it a competitive fight with Moorer. I can see Chambers beat Akinwande and if Chris Byrd could outbox Tua, why not Chambers? Arreola could steamroll Morrison or Morrison could win on a left hook, 50:50 fight in my book.

Let'snot pretend the 90's had all the perfect fighters. There were many exciting matchups, but exciting fights are not the same as superior fighters.