Poll: Widow maker says lennox lewis's reign wasn't that impressive.

I'm not a fan of lewis' but he beat everyone and anyone that was out there. I would have loved to have seen a Bowe Lewis match but it never materialized. Again I would have loved to have seen Lewis fail miserably but he just didn't he may have had lapses but he made resounding impressions the second time around.

 

lennox lewis reign was kinda like rockys ...he beat alot of guys who had been around ..a few of the up and commers who were suposed to be bad ass.. and retired with his brains intact... not impressive ..but an all time great run none the less

 

It was a decent rein. I give Lewis the title after he beat Briggs(Who beat Foreman, scorecards or not)

Now it was not like a Ali 2nd title rein with fights vs Frazier, or Foreman. And as reins, I even feel Marciano and Louis had a better run vs better foes.

But Lewis for his time was the man, beat evey one there was to beat outside of Wlad, but he was loseing to the likes of Brewster there. Not a great or impressive rein. But a decent rein. No I dont hold wins over Shot Tyson all that in a ohh Ahh type of feeling.

 

From a historical perspective there is only a verry small list of gloved heavyweight champions whose title reigns (like Lewis's) could be theoreticaly described as dominating an era.

Joh L Sullivan (minus obvious omisions)

Jim Jeffries

Jack Johnson (if we include his coloured heavyweight title reign)

Jack Dempsey (minus obvious omisions)

Joe Louis

Rocky Marciano

Muhamad Ali

Larry Holmes (minus obvious omisions)

Mike Tyson (if we include his alphabet championship reign)

Lennox Lewis

It seems hard to argue that any of these title reigns were not impresive.

 

I think to some extent Lewis gets blamed for all those good fights we as fans were hoping for. A prime Lewis - Bowe fight. A near prime Tyson - Lewis fight, etc. And while I personally don't blame him for these fights not happening, fans feel that he reign could have been more impressive if they did happen, and the mere fact they didn't, regardless of why, hurts him in some eyes. And the real anti-Lewis fans will go a step further to say he would have lost these fights and his chin wouldn't have stood up..It's nonesense, but they have two fights to hang their hats on.

 

The bottom. Who the hell are those "top 5 fighters" that he failed to fight??

 

If you can believe it one of them is Foreman, and the other Moorer.

 

:good

 

Isn't he the guy who regards Wlad as some kind of god? Was it him or someone else that claims Ali wasn't very impressive and even dissed his resume saying Foreman was his only quality win? Might have been someone else I remember it was Wlad fan. Anyway the general is full of those guys most don't know a great deal on the history of the sport anyway their was one guy who claim if you didn't see a fighter live you didn't know about him no matter the research you would do after, man that guy was a tool.

 

Lewis fought and beat everyone he faced at one point or another. He's a great, he's a legend. His resume is the EPITOME of impressive.

 

You mean two guys that Holyfield had already beat the **** out of when Lewis fought Holy??
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Fair post.

But I have a hard time finding a really impressive fight against a top notch opponent on his resume.

Shopworn Holyfield who Bowe clearly dispatched 2 out of 3 (one could make a argument 3 out of 3) when he was fresher,younger. Lewis opera dance for 24.

Trouble with Bruno who Tyson steamrolled when Bruno was, again, fresher.

Ruddock ? Good win but getting beat up twice by Tyson with your jaw/multiple ribs broken..........it stands to reason that Razor was never the same after that.

Butler ? lol

Mercer ? Pulled it out in the last few rounds but who the F did Mercer ever beat (Morrison? Damiani lol) plus ridiculed by a old Holmes.

Grant ? OK win but , please, almost folded against the mental midget. Same hype as Haye right now.

Golata? Self destructed in the two Bowe fights, that guy never ever beat anybody of any note and yeah, a stoned , washed up Tyson waxed him in two. Golata plain sucks.

Tua ? Well, sitting a couple of years on your No1 rating , getting fat and making all your glory out of a loss, putting a pathetic display of courage and should have been tko/ko'ed after the 8th, he certainly was ready to be taken out. **** ass boring fight.

The shell of a shell Tyson ? Not even worth a foot note .

Tommy Chin ? I guess ok but Tommy was no world beater unless you call a ancient Foreman a threat.

Briggs ? Kind of a sloppy affair in the beginning against a overmatched bodybuilder. Entertaining personality but as a fighter Briggs is a joke.

Mr Mohawk himself ? Another **** ass fight against , at best ,a b minus fighter.

Botha ? lol but he at least got him the f out of here. I am asking myself , is that a great win ?

VK ? Probably his best win against a guy who was not shot or old and his size advantage which he usually enjoyed meant jack. Unsatisfactory ending . Still, his best win but clouded , should have been a rematch but I guess he could not get up anymore for it and the possibilty of ending a career in defeat was real.

So, in conclusion, IMO, most of his resume consists of has beens or never were's, he was carefully managed and IMO, had a calculated entrance at the right time .

I also believe he would have a few more losses on his records if he would have matched up prime for prime with the above list, not all by KO but being outhustled or outpointed too. He is in the same age group, just see my above reference to being carefully managed.