It's not silly at all, if you want to argue about it on a round by round basis I'm willing. I've done so on numerous occassions in the general thread. It wasn't a hard fight to call. If I gave Holyfield every close round I get to 7-5 Lewis, under no circumstance do I give this fight to Holyfield. And this is based on that fight alone, nothing to do with the outcome of the first fight. And it wasn't just me, last time I participated in this type of discussion there was a poll as well, and about 80% of the pollsters picked Lewis.
And that poll was on this forum. So this one group of people thinks it so it must be true. In any event, I had it 6-6 like I said. I can see 7-5 either way but 8-4 is silly. You can break down the rounds if you want and I will, too. But I don't see us agreeing with each other if we both have already scored the fight more than once which it sounds like we both have.
I don't think it's one group of people, it just is what it is. It's not a particularly hard fight to score and I've seen the fight several times and even trying, I can't get a draw for Holyfield. And I like both fighters so I don't have a particular bias against either one, other than the fact I think Lewis had a better heavyweight career than Holyfield but Holyfield smokes Lewis on a P4P list.
Fair enough, Van. Maybe I'll rescore and see what I come up with this time. Like I said, I had it a draw last time.
Silver, I thought Lewis was handed this decision on the premise that Eugenia Williams was paid off by Don King. That woman should never be allowed to judge another important boxing contest again. I'd ban her and John Ruiz from boxing if I had the power. As for Holyfield vs Lewis II, a draw would have been the fairer decision because Holyfield looked much better in the rematch and Lennox resorted to backing up and jabbing. One thing is for sure about the rematch, Holyfield hurt Lewis way more than Lewis hurt Holyfield.
The old version of Holyfield gave Lewis trouble in their rematch. Based on that, I think a prime Holyfield would be a serious threat to Lewis because he wouldn't fight only in spurts like the 1999 version.
Prime Holy would fight much better against Prime Lewis than old Holy did. I like Holy to win by UD but in a close fight.
I'd favour Lewis on points. While the 2nd fight was closer (I had it 7-5 to Lewis) you still can't ignore the first fight. Whenever Lewis has faced an opponent he had something to prove against and knew he had to be at his best he took it to another level, as against Ruddock, Golota, Holyfield 1 and Rahman 2. Holyfield in his prime was more active and fired in rapid combo's but he was also prone to stay in the pocket for too long and take uneccessary punishment as in the first Bowe fight. I see it as a very tough fight much like Lewis/Mercer but I see Lewis being able to keep Evander off him for long enough and often enough to earn a close decision. I must say though I do think Holyfield is very underrated on this forum