Who ranks higher...Larry Holmes or Lennox Lewis?

Lewis' best fights were avenging defeats. Holmes was a better all round boxer in a better era.

Argue otherwise. Lennox received one punch KOs from McCall and Rahman. Excuses aside he has a weak chin.

 

deal:deal AGREE m8. :thumbsup


And Lazza Holmes needed bloody GIFT DECISIONS courtesy of Donny King to "win" VS a Green Timmy Spoon And Glassy Carl "teh truth" Williams.



Foreman Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooook!:smoke

 

MCcall was a BULL$hit stoppage of epically **** proportions - Lenny was 100% well And ready to continue in time to kick Oliver's ass, But Donny King paid teh corrupt ref to stop it if Lewis got knocked down. :deal

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Foreman Hooooooooooooooooooooooooook!:hat

 

Foreman was put down by far lesser punchers. What do you think of his chin?

 

Can we pick on Tinkerbell Tyson instead plz m8!? :blurp

It is NO FUN picking on Notorious B.I.G.G.G. (Big Invincible Giant G George). :smoke

 

holmes acheived more, Lewis would have a slight advantage H2H prime maybe.

 

Slight?! Oh you are polite. :yep

 

Gary Mason
Razor Ruddock
Tony Tucker
Frank Bruno
Oliver McCall
Tommy Morrison
Andrew Golota
Shannon Briggs
Evander Holyfield
David Tua
Hasim Rahman
Vitali Klit

Any of those wins on Larrys resume would be up there with his top scalps.

Not mention the way Lewis flattened fighters that were notorious for being able to take a punch. He destroyed people in a fashion that no one else had.

 

Lewis but it is tight, I think who you beat is more important than who you lose to and Lewis did correct both of his losses.

 

The McCall stoppage was premature. As the defending champ, Lewis should have been given the benefit of the doubt and been allowed to continue.
McCrory was in far worse condition against Curry, and he was allowed to continue. (Not that it changed anything.)

However, to claim he was 100% right is way off the mark. He was clearly on ***** street, although he seemed to recover right after the fight was stopped.

As for his chin...well, it served him well enough most of the time. I still think there are question marks about it though.

 

:good:good:good aye m8.

 

I'd pick Holmes. I'd have Holmes top 3 and Lewis around 6th

 

Lewis only had a weak chin in comparison to the other Top 10 ATG Heavyweight's he's in the company of. No fighter is perfect and this is one of his extremely few flaws. The fact that he avenged them is important, but doesnt change the fashion in which he lost the first go round. Neither of those fights even got to the mid-rounds, he sustained no significant punishment leading up to the 1 shot KOs. Even if you could call the McCall stoppage premature, he shouldnt be getting dropped like that in the second round. It's suspect, and Rahman confirmed it.

 

You could do exactly the same thing in reverse. Holmes beat Norton, Shavers, Berbick, Snipes, Cooney, Weaver, L.Spinks, L.Jones, Witherspoon, Smith, Bey etc. .... most of whom would sit up there with the names you have listed.
I notice you left of Ray Mercer, who is certainly worthy of being high up among your list of Lewis foes. I wonder why you left Mercer off.

 

Who in HW history do you think would've stayed up from that Raham shot?