Serious Question: Who could Lennox Lewis beat in 2013?

46 year old Silvio Branco won the WBC silver cruiserweight title last week.

Granted, Branco has kept active and not lapsed for more than a year while Lennox has been retired for a decade - but think about the gulf in class here. Lewis will have retained his skill and power at the very least even if his body is much slower and less capable of explosiveness or graceful movement than even at the end of his career. He isn't some withered old greybeard in a wheelchair, hasn't drunk himself into a stupor nor blown up to 400lbs. As stipulated in the OP, with a 4 month camp, given his pedigree and background, you don't think a former world heavyweight champion (the champion, no belt holder) can whip himself into shape to dispatch some of the current pretenders...especially the flawed and chinny ones listed?

 

All of them. The only fighter who might beat him is Toney by using his crafty style to slip out a decision.

I don't see any heavyweight beating lennox around. Vitali and Wlad are the best ones but we all saw how Lennox busted up and cutted up Vitali. Lennox beats him every time, he fought just 2 rounds and tore Vitali's face of. Wlad would have just been knocked out.

 

Lennox would do well. 2 main factors:
He went out on a win (I am not trolling) so he wasn't damaged goods
He has good boxing IQ

Like someone who mentioned Larry Holmes. 2 Olympics and a career defeating every fighter he fought. He knows what his capable of, the experience, the limitations. Just knowing yourself more than the other fighter is an advantage.

It's difficult to predict how he would do with the up and comers as their abilities are more unknown. Well, minus Fury, he'd definitely KO him.

He'd probably lose to Wlad due to his mobility. But with his right hand, who knows?!

If he did comeback and beat both Klitschhko's, he wouldn't really move up the ATG list much higher, would be more discrediting the brothers.

 

Remember when people did this with Tyson for quite awhile?

"I'm just saying...if Tyson could get back with Rooney and FOCUS...he could STILL come back and regain the title!"

I think this carried on with some posters and people I know all the way up until like 07.