Who was the best Heavyweight of the 90s?

Probably Lewis cos he got all the big names at the right time.

Bowe might have been the best in terms of h2h ability.

 

Best is Bowe.

 

1- Lewis
2- Holyfield
3- Tyson
4 - Bowe

 

Lewis and it's not close.

 

I chose Lewis. He obviously was not perfect (see first fights with McCall and Rahman) but at the end of the day he was the best. He beat Holyfield twice really and a faded 90's version of Tyson. Bowe had some good fights (especially first fight against Holyfield) but was terribly inconsistent after that. Certainly Lewis deserves a higher rating based on career accomplishments. But I think he would also prevail by KO in head to head.

 

Bowe's wins over Holyfield are pretty special, especially with how those fights played out.

Lewis couldn't get rid of a shot Holy, and he faced Tyson when he was absolutely shot, too.

But Lennox has the deepest resume of the 90's HW's. He cleaned the division out.

Great, but very tough question!

 

Holyfield, with the Bowe who beat him coming in at second place. Lewis to me showed his true Greatness in particular in this century. In fact, I rate Lewis the best heavy of this century, period (with Wlad not too far).

Bowe won all three fights with Holy, imo. That said, Golota kicked the crap out of him while he was still (for a boxer) pretty young. I do have to give mad props to Bowe for beating up Hide and winning the title again, plus his win over Jorge can't be taken lightly.

I would have rated Lewis higher if he'd definitively beat Holy, which I personally think he never did. I thought he edged Holy only by three points total combined in both fights. Bowe knocked the yee-haw out of Holy in two fights, and won a close decision in one.

This is all just the way I see it. I don't see even the Steward-Lewis beating the Holy-beating Bowe.

1. Holy
2. Bowe (just edging no.3)
3. Lewis
4. Mike

 

Holy
Bowe razor close.

Lewis who I feel is one of the most overrated fighters on this forum

 

I voted for Holyfield ... even though Lewis finished stronger. (Lewis didn't pass Holyfield, all-time, IMO, until the 2000s).

Evander beat a laundry-list of top heavyweights in the 1990s. Tyson, Foreman, Holmes, Bowe, Mercer, Moorer and his losses came against Bowe, Moorer and Lewis.

I'd put Lewis at number two, but it's close. Lewis also beat top heavyweights like Ruddock, Mercer, Morrison, Bruno, Golota, Mason and Holyfield ... but the loss to McCall and the rematch (where Lewis didn't win so much as McCall quit) kind of leads me to rate Evander slightly higher. The McCall fights (both) were bad performances by Lewis.

Close.

 

Remember the OP's question who was the best HW of the 90's ?? Not who had the best overall career of the 90's HW's.

Resume and achievement : Holyfield

Who could have been the best : Bowe if he had been a dedicated trainer and stayed away from cheeseburgers could haven beaten Lewis and a post prison Tyson.
Lewis people seem to forget only came into his prime from 1997 onwards after hooking up with Manny Steward before that while still a formidable HW his CV is lacking compared to Bowe and Holyfield. Lennox had the best overall legacy of the 90's HW's but he didn't really cement his place until the early 2000's.

 

This is a bit tougher than I thought. Bowe should be #1 but he clocked out in 1996. So it might come down to which wins were better: Holyfield over Tyson or Lewis over Holyfield?

 

it´s a 50:50 between bowe and lewis for me - riddick dominated the 1st half of the 90s, lennox took the 2nd.
looked up their boxrec-records to decide, since i had to in this poll.
lewis was 34-1-1 by his last fight of the 90s, while bowe was 40-1 and 3 years younger than lewis (then again lewis was a late bloomer ...).
i did not take bowe´s poor performances against golota into consideration, because foul play doesn´t count in my eyes.

it is very difficult ...

 

And nowhere near as convincingly as Bowe, etc. That's why I rank Lewis below Holy as ATG.

Still, LL was a phenomenal heavyweight champ, and he is in my top five.

 

This is an interesting take on the question.