Tyson Fury vs Prime Lennox Lewis

I'd favour Lennox, but Fury still has time to go up in my h2h estimations...particularly if he were to best Usyk and Joshua.

This thread however doesn't even try to hide its agenda. Why mention who floored Fury without mentioning who knocked Lewis out?

As a side note...both KO whyte with little trouble.

 

Putting Fury down is one thing. Actually keeping him down for a full ten count seems to be another matter entirely.

 

It depends what Fury shows up but i'd favor Lewis by decision or late round stoppage. Lewis did get stopped by McCall and Rahman but he got smarter as he got older and took big shots and was relatively unphased by them. He took big shots from Vitali and took them well on the chin whilst landing his own big shots. It ended perhaps prematurely but even that version of Lewis showed he does have good durability and does have the smarts to have a plan b against Fury.

Fury fought Wladimir Klitschko after he looked quite poor against part time heavyweight boxer Bryant Jennings. Wladimir Klitschko looked on the decline and at the time i thought the new rising heavyweights on the block would possibly beat him even Wilder at the time.

I think the Lewis in the Vitali fight is a tougher proposition than the Wladimir Klitschko of the Fury fight.

Lewis was willing to trade with Vitali and Fury would have to put on a top performance moving and hoping he doesn't get hit by any big counter shot. Fury in round 12 of the Klitschko fight looked a bit vulnerable and it seemed finally Wladimir had figured out Fury but it was too little too late.

Lewis is a much smarter boxer than Wilder. I'm sure Fury and his team would have a good gameplan but Lewis understands the sweet science and knows all the little tricks which could help him in his favor.

 

Wallin now has a new claim to fame: the nondescript Heavyweight with no special effects who was ducked by Whyte.

 

Fury is good enough to beat Whyte with just his Southpaw jab. Why would he need to duck Whyte?

 

Maybe he just enjoys messing Whyte around for his own amusement.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him.

 

Not sure why Fury would be scared of fighting a man who's recorded only four stoppages in his last twelve wins, but hey ho.

 

Just a shame Whyte can't get a payoff to all of that by securing a shot at Fury's WBC due to him repeatedly talking out of turn about the WBC.

Pretty much like when interviewers talk out of turn about Matchroom, or at least ask awkward questions like Big Geordie did when he interviewed Eddie Hearn. Those people who don't tie the party line tend to not be invited back.

 

Not really. I think they're as bad as the WBA, maybe more. The point I'm making is, if a fighter is after a shot at a sanctioning body's World title, it's probably not a good idea to mouth off about them on social media, thus raising their ire and giving them an excuse not to reward said fighter with said title shot.

The people running these organisations seem to have bigger egos than the fighters themselves.