Resumes: Lennox Lewis vs. George Foreman

lennox lewis stronger than george foreman? lol:rofl:rofl naa friend, foreman was stronger,harder puncher and not for a bit.

 

no boxer in history is stronger than george foreman... the second in my opinion is charles sonny liston

 

Lewis won 18 heavyweight title fights and at age 37 beat the guy who years later is still beating everyone he fights. Lewis also beat every opponent he faced. How many did Foreman win? How many unavenged losses did Foreman have? How long was Foreman's title reign? Did Foreman beat everyone he faced?

Longevity, dominance and consistency are more important than a couple of great wins followed by a couple of horrific losses. For the whole of the time Lennox Lewis was a fighter, there was not a single boxer who could say "I fought Lennox Lewis and - overall - came out on top". That's the definition of a champion, not Foreman's flash in the pan moments.

 

It's a myth that Lennox has a bad chin. He has one legit knockout loss in an entire career, the other was a rather quick TKO stoppage when he was on his feet. Guys like Frazier, Tyson, Liston etc have stoppage losses yet no one questions their chins. Why the double standard?

 

prime foreman would have beat any rival of lewis, just tonny tucker and vitali might give problems to george, but vitali was easy to cut, i think that george would win by tko by cuts,men like bruno, tua,morrison,mercer,holyfield in his 30s,tyson would be victims for george. lennox would lose against ali and joe frazier, the pressure style of joe would be very bad for lewis. ron lyle and jimmy young would give lennox the hell. if bruno could hurt lewis, a very strong and motivated lyle might finish him.

 

Wait, is Lennox seriously winning this poll?

 

lewis was ko by 2 single shots by rahman(not a top puncher), and oliver(not top puncher) knocked him out too , frank bruno did hurt him seriously, joe frazier was down 100 times by george foreman and he got up, he did lose by tko, not ko. tyson took more shots than lewis took in his life, liston took many shots by cleveland williams, the second fight against ali was a lie completly, he was not ko. he was ko just when he was a old man. they had better chin than lewis.

 

this isn't about would have though, it's about did. it doesn't matter if foreman would have been every heavyweight ever, he didn't

based on what ACTUALLY occured foreman's resume is less than lewis'

 

not, the facts are foreman fought in a a better era, with better fighters, you can´t say that lewis had better legacy, simply because he fought in a weaker era. and george won the title in his 40s, he is the oldest hw champ ever. foreman has better career and in my opinion he would ko lewis

 

h2h doesn't matter and while he did fight in a better era, he lost in a better era. he didn't dominate in a better era. he was humiliated by jimmy young...in a better era. then he retired

this thread keeps going to a H2H battle because i've yet to see one legitimate argument for foreman's RESUME being rated higher. i don't give a **** if he was ****ing 80 when he beat moorer, his age is irrelevant to his resume

the balance of who he beat and lost to and HOW he did so is not as good as lewis'. foreman has two great fighters on his resume, a fat, unmotivated frazier and ken norton. foreman NEVER dominated the division. not for any substantial amount of time. in the 70s, ali and young beat him. in the 90s, morrison, holyfield and shultz beat him (if you are claming a briggs win, then the flip side is his shultz loss). he had some amazing accomplishments but it's a shallow resume

 

Foreman was pretty green against Ali. He never bothered with a defence, his defence was hit you first. Great against a slow starting fraser. Ron Lyle highlighted Foreman's problems big time. Lennox Lewis boxes better and hits harder than Lyle and is 2 inches taller and 15-20 pounds heavier. He also has a massive reach advantage which he used often instead of trading as Lyle did.

A young foreman would get hit far to often and more importantly miss with his punches see the Young fight. I think it is a comfortable win for lewis. If you could give foreman the mental focus he had on his return he might have finished his boxing education. Losing it after Ali tells me he would not get back on the fair ride. Mentally Foreman failed when he had the tools.

If say he learnt from Ali and then lost to lewis. I think he had the ability in the 1970's to come back and beat them both or at least run them close.

 

obviously you know absolutely **** about boxing, frazier was 29 years old , undefeated, and 214 pounds of pure muscle when he faced foreman.

 

HE WAS DEPRESSED WHEN HE FACED JIMMY YOUNG AND RON LYLE. LEWIS MIGHT NOT WIN THE BELT IN HIS 40s even in this weak era.

 

A strong case can be made either way to be honest.

Their resumes have such different strengths and weakneses, that it is not an easy comparison to make.