Starting To Think Lennox Lewis Is The Most Complete and Best Heavyweight H2H

very good offensive fighter but 2 factors stick in my head, he never KO'd a man after the 8th and had 2 one-punch KO loses against McCall and Rahman, men that could punch but not in the killer puncher bracket. These 2 factors would leave him susceptible against hard punchers or attrition fighters

 

Lewis was the man...he may have been the best..up there with Ali and Louis.

 

Apparently, he schooled a young SNV behind closed doors about 3 year back.

The point of my post was, why is there so much emphasis on the Heavyweights? When we have superb boxers in the lower weights who get completely ignored, and then the same repeated threads on boxers who get too much exposure.

 

This is sobering..and true regarding Lewis...I haven't considered this till just now....the part about never stopping anyone after 8.

 

First of all, no way in ****all anybody has ever had the pugilistic genius to school SNV anywhere.

Secondly, if the man wants to talk heavyweights, he wants to talk heavyweights. You start your own damn threads about puny little men slapping at each other who would all get squashed by a real man in Sugar, because no one is as big/great and that goes quintuple for anyone under light heavyweight.

 

You have to last that long with him too though for it to mean anything.

 

Yep. Louis/Ali/Holmes are the unshakable trio as of today, IMO. Past that, it's really quite a chore to split and number the rest.

 

I flip on Lewis and Tyson, but I've become more inclined towards Lewis to be honest. It's easy to overrate Tyson. Most people are guilty of it, behind the protestations that "Tyson gets underrated". I guess it's all perspective.

Yes, to a point. But not to the point where he's the most effective ever.
I cant think of any real "masterclass" performances he put on, except for Tua, who was one-dimensional guy with stumpy arms and about 8 inch height deficit.

His chin was decent. Yes, he used his range well.

I dont think Lewis necessarily compares favourably with Liston, nevermind Ali.
i dont see why Ali would strictly "have to make the fight" and show an undue uncomfortably level of forward movement, nor do I see a problem with that even if it were true to some extent. If Lewis was to lay back and be lazy and try to pick up points that way, Ali would carve him up. Ali had more dimensions, better movement, the works.

Lewis looked good fighting big mooses and statues like Golota, blasting him out. It's hard to extrapolate how he'd beat Ali from those sort of fights though. Watch his 24 rounds with a past-prime Holyfield and his 12 with some guy called Zelkjo Mavrovic and he looks more ordinary against men with just a bit of agility and boxing ability.

Let's not even think about what ali would do to him with his speed. Who did Lewis ever even fight who was fast ?

 

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He is the best Super-Heavyweight ever, definitely.

However, I think too much emphasis is put on size, there are negatives to it aswell that are forgotten about.

 

Agree on both counts. He is the best "Super" HW and size is typically self-limiting.

 

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