Who ranks higher p4p , Bernard Hopkins or Lennox Lewis ?

Hopkins based on ability. Lewis has more depth to his record, but Hopkins best victories are probably better than Lewis' best victories, and he was more dominant, and he was around for longer. But the real deciding factor for me is H2H value. I rate Hopkins as one of the best H2H 160-pounders OAT, above Monzon and Hagler, for instance.

 

but hopkins never got iced like lewis did, and it happened twice

 

I say Hopkins wins easily on longevity points. and bigger wins.

 

Yeah but Lennox avenged both losses in a one sided fashion, whereas Hopkins failed to do that against Taylor. And me personally I rank Lennox last victory over Vitali higher than any Hopkins victory due to circumstances and hindsight. And just overall Lennox like I said before has the deeper resume.

 

but what you fail to mention is that hopkins was no longer in his prime when he lost to taylor consecutively while lewis was brutally knocked out in the middle of his title reign. as for the vitali fight, well, the fight never finished. in fact a rematch was talked about but lewis retired. in short, neither mans resume is overly impressive but hopkins was the more consistent fighter, edge to hopkins.

 

Lennoxs reign at HW pisses on any reign from BHOPs, the division was so much tougher 1 of the best in HW history and Lennox always sought out the best. As for the P4P, its more questionable but lets not pretend Hopkins was fighting any bigger men with the possible exception of Tarver, Lennox fought more bigger men Vitali/Akiwande/Grant. Compare resumes:

Lennox

Holyfield
Vitali
Tyson
Tua
Rudduck
Golota
Grant
Akiwande
Bruno
Morrison
Mercer
Mason
McCall
Rahman
Tucker

Hopkins

Tito
Tarver
Wright
DLH
Holmes
Echols
Johnson
Joppy
Pavlik
Brown
Allen
Vanderpool
Eastman
Jackson

Lennox's certainly has more depth of quality, greater names (albeit past prime), Hopkins has done it in 2 divisions but the neither were as strong and the HWs obviously have a wider range of weights than 160-175

 

Lennox had some solid dominant wins. He had 2 bad KO loses but that is the heavyweight danger and the bigger they are the harder they fall. Bernard's early resume was weak and he got some good wins over blown up Welters his best wins IMO were at light heavweight and by an Older,stronger and more polished B-hopper Tarver, Pavlick, and a losing effort vs Calzage, although I did not like the cheap, faken a foul tactics that Clottley used vs Cotto, I thought B-Hop lost but put on a good effort. His fights against Taylor were good but he was weakened at 160.

Lewis had great blow-outs over Golota, Botha, Tyson,Grant, Rudduck, while fighting tough with Marovic,Mercer,Holyfield and winning smooth vs Tua...he showed versaility
He came out on top of a young Vitali and avenged his losses to McCall and an impressive KO over Rahman

This is close IMO