Why doesn't Lennox have universal approval ?

I agree with most of this. However, another very important factor was his safety first style... or what was perceived as a safety first style. It was a style that played on his physical assets and seemed rather prudent considering the type of powerpunchers he faced. However, it didn't win him many fans.

 

Anyone said it was because he was a limey ***got yet?

 

That's true but 8 years later Lewis reneged on a signed contract to fight John Ruiz !
Which is not as bad ... or is in fact worse :huh... depending on perspective.

 

I think so, within the first 3 pages.

 

LOL, of course Lemmie had a safety first approach, after all when you get cold ****ed by one punch by two absolute ham and eggers, who in the grand picture ,were not even big punchers, yeah , he is protecting his obvious achilles heal and in a time machine head to head against other top heavyweights he would have been polaxed several more times, lol, the proof is in the pudding. No other champion, to the bst of m,y knowledge in any weight class was never iced by one freaking punch T-W-I-C-E.

Besides Lewis, Rahman never ko'ed anybody worth a lickk, usually he was knocked out of the ring.....same with McCall, unless you call C level Akinwande or glass chin Oleg some major scalps, just the breeze of a punch would knock those two guys out.

Anyway, carry on for another twenty pages of Lewis ball sack waxing.

 

Well to be honest Rahman did KO a better version of Corrie Sanders, who then in semi retirement 3 years later put Wlad on his a$$ in 2 rounds.But you've already made clear from your other posts that you worship at the Klitschko nutsack. The worst ever version of Lewis tko'd a prime Vitali. We understand you don't like Lewis. But he was better than what came after him, and he defeated better fighters.

 

Because we had a damn good thing going here before Mr. Lewis just had to start rolling the snowball that grew into an avalanche.

A foreign heavyweight contender or beltholder now and then was just a charming little thing that added flavor to our heavyweight division. It was the pepperoni on the pizza. Starting with Mr. Lewis, the pepperoni became the whole g*damm pizza. That's not the way things work around these parts, so the JamCanBrit crime lord has to pay.

With the rise of the Klitschko syndicate, particularly Wladimir, many traumatized fans have relegated Mr. Lewis as being the lesser of evils. Some have recovered from the damage he'd done in his own day to prop him up as their own now, as though he were an American heavyweight by proxy.

Such revisionism flies in the face of the reality of the day when Lennox was the outsider and treated as such, of course. But, it's a misremembering that comforts many in these cold times. There's no such comfort for those who work to undo the damage that these foreign heavyweights have done here, and the infestation started with Mr. Lewis.

It'll be a cold day in hell before I ever pick him over our Cruiserweight-sized legends. The full-sized heavyweight ones? Don't make me chortle.

 

Do you want an answer ? This is yours: **** you idiota !
Am i Tyson? Ask Tyson !

 

Weaver ? He was 40 years old.
Grant ? Say a remarkable ko win by this featherfisted loser !
The fat Tua ? Who has only one significant but lucky ko win
(Rahman 1).
Briggs. I think this is the bum-beater freak who couldn't knock out
Botha
Grab your stupid list and go hell, little brainwasher !

 

Epic fail. :nono


Why is it that your argument, as pathetic as it is, revolves around Tyson beating fighters who were thought to unbeatable, like the great Ruddock, and they when Lewis does the same, let's face it 10x better, all the guys he beat were "Fat"," bum-beaters", "feather-fisted", etc.

Lewis>Tyson anytime all the time!

 

1. McCall
2. Mercer
3. Rahman
4. Did not relish a fight; you can't fool the fans
5. Became great only late in his career (I see steroids here, but nobody cares) (Was lucky to find a great trainer, so also Steward built Lewis: hardly exciting)
6. Despite prophecies, did not seek young champion Tyson, and forever lost his chance to demonstrate true greatness. Young Clay sought Liston. Young Lewis preferred to keep beating on amateurs.

 

You're obviously not much into actual sports, cause if you were you would know that kids dream of getting gold metals for years and years, and Lewis had the ability and the talent to get one. After he received one, he went into the pro's. Nothing wrong with that, if Tyson had the talent he would have done the same thing. Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Wlad, Mercer and Holyfield all won Olympic metals. Lewis won two.

How anyone can try turning that into a negative is beyond me.

Do you think back in the day, people thought Tyson was going to be shot after reaching the ripe old age of 24?

Tyson

1. Douglas
2. Holyfield
3. Holyfield II
4. Lewis
5. Williams :rofl
6. McBride :rofl:rofl
7. Never avenged ANY of his losses
8. Had one of the shortest primes in history
9. Couldn't even make the Olympic team, never mind win a metal.

 

Take that to the bank......KO'ed TWICE by borderline journey man by O-N-E punch .....Fact.

 

They ruined a perfectly good ******* when they gave you teeth, didn't they? Aren't you the fool who wrote.

" Besides Lewis, Rahman never ko'ed anybody worth a lickk, usually he was knocked out of the ring.....same with McCall, unless you call C level Akinwande or glass chin Oleg some major scalps, just the breeze of a punch would knock those two guys out. "

Apart from the FACTS that Rahman stopped 41 opponents, and NO ONE apart from Lewis EVER stopped McCall, the rest of your post is just drivel, as opposed to 100% sh it.

 

That was covered already, but thanks for the reminder.

Too bad the journeyman fighters weren't Tyson, or Holyfield, cause they lost against Lewis, or Ruddock or Tua, because they also lost against Lewis, or Vitali, because he got his face rearranged. Come to think of it, Tyson pretty much did as well, alll I remember was him lying on his ass with blood coming out of his nose and eye area and then thanking Lewis for the honor of whopping his ass.