Peak Lewis vs 70's version of Ali

We can point to a certain time in swimming when the great Australian swimmer Shane Gould was dominant in the pool in the early seventies, within a year she was swamped by the East Germans. Shane Gould was the only person, male or female, to hold every world freestyle record from 100 m to 1500 m simultaneously, and the first female swimmer ever to win three Olympic gold medals in world record time, so we are talking about one of the greatest athletes of all time, I am an Aussie of the same era so I may be biased here, who retired at sixteen unable to compete with drug assisted rival swimmers.

The two points here are roids work, where even a super athlete could be beaten with them, two this is the time that roids were becoming common use we know the East Germans had a program at this time but I can't see a fifteen year old Australian schoolgirl in the early seventies on them no matter how good her times were.

here is a link about east german swimmers
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9D0CE1DA1731F930A35751C1A967958260

 

Interestingly, i recently read that most of the steroids being used was by amateur body builders/lifters.


...................got a confession to make Dopple? :hey

 

Haha nope. Besides, I only lift for strength training to supplement my MA training.

 

Agreed. I just can't see him going the distance. His chin, was not on the level of that of Frazier's and would not have allowed him to endure the punishment Frazier did.

 

Along with Holmes, I think Lewis is the toughest guy for Ali to beat and I'm including the likes of Louis, Marciano and Tyson when I say that.

Lewis would have height, reach and power advantages and when he used it properly, a dominant jab. Ali would have to stay on his toes in this one and hope that Lewis's stamina (which I always thought was a bit questionable) would let him down in the later rounds as Ali himself started to tire.

Ali takes the early rounds by boxing and moving, Lewis starts to come on in the middle rounds while Ali clowns and tries to buy time and energy through clinching and spoiling tactics as much as possible. Ali comes on again in the later rounds as Lewis tires. Ali takes a close and somewhat controversial decision.

 

Not bad, not bad. I think pre exile Ali decisions Lewis in a good fight. At some point post exile Lewis would beat him, not quite sure of what point yet.

 

I should say I was thinking of the fight as 15 rounds. Over 12, Lewis might just nick it.