Prime for prime, best heavyweight ever - head to head

What about Joe Louis ?

 

I'd go with Ali, Lewis and Holmes aswell. I don't think any of them would suffer from style match-ups, each of the 3 is capable of beating any fighter

 

I wouldn't call being KO'd at the age of 35 exactly in "his prime" by that defination Tyson was KO'd by Douglas, Holyfield, and Lewis.

 

From my POV, a prime Ali vs a prime Lewis is the fight I'd most want to see if possible. I don't rate prime Tyson as much as many people do, and I couldn't call Ali-Lewis, I'd ****ing love to watch it though

 

Well Lewis likely never would have lost that fight had he not been making a movie instead of training properly and getting climatized to the altitude of South Africa. As for the McCall rematch I don't give Lewis too much credit for that win, but he did win and so that's that. As far as the stoppage goes against the first McCall fight, I don't have a big problem with that. Even if the fight continued, I don't think Lewis would have have lasted long.

 

Ali was far from a KO artist.

 

He was 72 when he fought Marciano, so he was about 60 in his prime.

I can't see a 60yr old guy beating Ali, Lewis etc.

 

This^^

 

1a Ali
1b Holmes

3 Tyson
4 Lewis
5 Foreman

 

Ali was faster and could withstand Lewis' power even if Lennox did land flush.