8.5 He did get rocked a few times in his career but that video shows you how much of a hit he can absorb. When you consider he's a huge target and not always elusive,only 1 ko loss is pretty damn impressive with the line up of people who've hit him.
2 KO losses:good I personally feel the McCall stoppage was fair, no matter how much Lennox protested it at the end. HOWEVER; as Holmes showed against Shavers, an intelligent Heavy CAN ride the storm. Maybe Lewis should've been allowed to carry on, McCall was no demonic puncher after all. Have I given a rating already? 7.5 or 8.0 I reckon, no Chuavlo, but certainly no Tommy Morrison either.
His chin was not great. I would rank it around a 6-7. He was knocked out by single shots. Hes been hurt by Bruno, Briggs, and a few others. Lennox just didnt get hit cleanly, and comparing him to guys that walked through the same type of shots he got KO'd by you cant rank him any higher. The shot he took from Tua was not even that clean, and just because he fought big punchers that doesnt add to how solid his chin was, because Lewis rarely got hit cleanly, and the few times he did, he got shook up or knocked out.
Just because he didnt have a great chin doesnt detract from his greatness. He did fight through rough moments where he was shook up against Mercer, Bruno, Briggs, even Grant in the first or second round. He was also hurt a little by Akinwande and Mavrovic, one of which he was dropped and it wasnt counted. Let me ask you, would Lewis' chin stand up in the same type of exchange that say Tyson took against Douglas or Mcall against Bruno or Ibeabuchi with Tua??
I guess we won't know. As you basically say, fairly redundant question as he had the attributes to avert an exchange like that.
When using Chuvalo as comparison 7.5 - 8 seems fair. One thing i believe about Briggs - lewis punch is he was partially caught off balance and with Shannon throwing like a man possessed it didn't make it good either. Lewis made a point of not holding back his chin later in that fight.
Completely agree, this post is the answer, Lennox fought the biggest collection of bangers in history, most HW Champs havent been anywhere near those type of punchers or anywhere near the size of those men, yet supposedly have better chins despite not putting their chins near that type of danger. its also a good point that Lennox gets harsher critiscism of his ko losses, No one questions the chins of: Archie Moore - 7 sand toppage losses, Dempsey being ko'd in the 1st by a journeyman, and Ali was out against Cooper/shavers/Foreman but managed to survive.
How does that make his chin better??? You cant evaluate someones chin unless they get hit through the course of a fight, which he rarely did. Its like saying Roy Jones had a great chin because he fought big bangers at LH and a heavyweight. He clearly didnt have a grade A chin, and it was exposed when he started getting hit cleaner.
Because he fought about 15 men who take any man out with 1 shot if they landed their money punches. It obviously increases the chances of being ko'd when you fight more punchers and you fight some of them not at your best or getting complacent Regardless, the KO punches that Rahman/McCall landed would have ko'd many champions in history, lennox commited cardinal sins each time to take those type of shots. Then theres the face the McCall stoppage was premature and Ali/Holmes/Marciano/Holyfield all could have been stopped on similar shots. Lennox didnt get the chance to finnish that fight that those other men did Your opinion on this thread is ignorant as normal, using the 'Lewis didnt get hit except for the times he was out' line. Watch the video on the first page and come back and say it again with a straight face. When a poster as bad as Anglosaxon owns you, you know its time to leave the thread with your tail between your legs
What are you talking about??? Who is Anglosaxon?? Only a moron would say because he fought big punchers his chin was great, especially when he was knocked cold by single shots. Sure it increases his chances of getting knocked out, but that doesnt mean he will if he doesnt get hit. As I said, tell me how Lewis would have done against Douglas if he took the same beating Tyson took or against Tua if he took the same shots Ibeabuchi took or against Bruno if he took the same shots Mcall took?? Lewis wouldnt have made it out of the first half of the fight atsch
Lewis got absolutely nailed with perfect clean shots. But they were from Mccall and Rahman NOT Georg Foreman
6 or 7, putting it in the 'good' category, possibly even 'very good', but an 8 is surely too high, considering he was knocked out twice by single shots. I think Lennox was a fantastic fighter with a good solid chin, but to give him an 8 implies his chin was in the iron 8-10 region, which it obviously wasn't. The 8-10 category should be reserved for guys who were never finished by only one single punch. JMHO.