Was Lewis V McCall 1 and early stoppage

I've always felt a bit early.

Check out the first knockdown in the Lewis-Golota blowout. He stumbles a couple of times, is still buzzed when Cortez checks, but given the green light. Not the best example as he then gets blasted but he was allowed that chance to get back into it.

I'm not convinced McCall takes Lewis if allowed to continue.

Certainly been worse stoppages though.

 

Fair stoppage imo

 

Lewis was looking like David Price in the first Thompson fight, had he been allowed to carry on The Atomic Bull would have delivered a brutal highlight reel stoppage soon after. I like Lennox but McCall reduced him to a wobbly shell of a man that night. Whilst we're talking about McCall, he's one tough man, never stopped (you can't count Lewis 2).

 

Lewis was shook

No issues with the stoppage

 

That career in tatters thing has always irked me, they did it with Haye too when Thompson rocked his brain all over the place. The only time I can remember something like that being said and it going on to be right was Price v Thompson 1.

 

Just watched it again. He was about as steady on his feet as Berbick was against Tyson

He left the referee with no choice but to stop it, his legs were jelly and he was swaying from side to side

 

He had the old spaghetti legs.

 

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1.31 - 1.40 - Wonder if a young Eddie saw that and took inspiration 'Now that's how you sell a fight'.

And as for the stoppage, yeah it was justified, when Lennox first gets up he staggers sideways halfway across the ring, his mind seemed lucid enough but his legs were completely gone.

 

If Lewis had taken his time who knows, I've always thought that he seemed too keen to get up and get back to it.