Who Is Most Underrated Heavyweight Of All Time Come And Vote

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Originally Posted by Taeth

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Originally Posted by cockey cockney

Lennox Lewis definiately aint underated....hes overated if anything by alot of people.

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Are you kidding me? He would have beaten any other heavyweight except maybe Ike and prime Tyson more times than not.

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Are you kidding me thats bit of bold statement especially when your talking about same Lewis who got gift decision agaisnt Ray Mercer when 40+ Larry Holmes out boxed Mercer easily so did Jesse Ferguson and Lewis got out jabbed by Frank Bruno of all people and was sparked out twice by mediocre Rahman and Oliver and i don't know why you say only Prime Tyson and Ike would only have chance firstly Tyson wernt best against tall boxers and what did Ike ever do for you to rate him that high ?? all he ever did was get gift decision against Tua and knock out Byrd who was out boxing him up until stoppage i think prime Holmes Prime Witherspoon Prime Bowe Prime Ali would have better chance.

I think Lewis is under rated especially by the Yanks .

If Lewis was American and beat every guy he ever fought like he has then he'd be viewed in alot higher rehard than he is now .

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Originally Posted by GAME

I think Lewis is under rated especially by the Yanks .

If Lewis was American and beat every guy he ever fought like he has then he'd be viewed in alot higher rehard than he is now .

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Nope
Lewis is rated were he is not because he's a Canadian of Jamaican descent living in Britain
He just wasnt very exciting,he was allways methodical.The Klitschko's arent huge stars for the same reason.It doesnt help that he was shown the floor,and the door by smaller fighters,McCall,and Rahman
A large percentage of his fights after winning his first title were fought in the states,so we got to see him plenty.He just wasnt a very exciting fighter,the main problem with the division is there is no lights out boxer in it to inflame the imagination.Hell Klitschko was winning against him when the fight was called because of the cut.

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Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey

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Originally Posted by GAME

I think Lewis is under rated especially by the Yanks .

If Lewis was American and beat every guy he ever fought like he has then he'd be viewed in alot higher rehard than he is now .

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Nope
Lewis is rated were he is not because he's a Canadian of Jamaican descent living in Britain
He just wasnt very exciting,he was allways methodical.The Klitschko's arent huge stars for the same reason.It doesnt help that he was shown the floor,and the door by smaller fighters,McCall,and Rahman
A large percentage of his fights after winning his first title were fought in the states,so we got to see him plenty.He just wasnt a very exciting fighter,the main problem with the division is there is no lights out boxer in it to inflame the imagination.Hell Klitschko was winning against him when the fight was called because of the cut.

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Lewis slugged it out with Vitali and came out on top . The Klit couldnt continue . Regardless what the cards said , Lewsi won the 6th and was incharge at the time of the stoppage

Lewis never got chance to be exciting cuz he usually knocked his opponents out early. Golota , Briggs , Grant , Botha , Rudduck , were dismissed early and the fights with Tua and Tyson were so one sided they couldnt be considered exciting when 1 fighter is so clearly superior and dominant

I voted with Holmes due to the fact that he took over after the Ali era was officially over and people practically dismissed him...He was a great Champion...Funny thing about Holmes is he became more appreciated after he retired..

Michael Moore was a close second...IMO many people just did not take him seriously as a HW champion

i had to give the nod to holmes, it must have been frustrating following in ali's wake
.....i give second place to liston, the man was past his best by the time he got his title shot

as for moorer ,i never rated him very highy due to his glass chin......if tyson was around at the time moorer would be nothing

holmes is great--one thing is he succeded ali---and another thing is he tried 2 act like ali--running his mouth--but he never lost-(during prime) and u cant take that away from him--he also says he the greatest 2 ever lace up the gloves----hell no--anywhere from a 1964-1975 ali --woulda whuped holmes and make holmes look like a cheap imitation

i'd have to say Holmes. i never seen a champ who held the title for more than 7 years and 20 title defenses so disrespected. as for Lennox Lewis, extremely over-rated. his 2 biggest victories of his career came against 2 fighters way out of their prime: Tyson and Holyfield.

I have to go with Holmes. He was underrated mostly because he had to follow Ali as champ and then defend against the aging legend as happened to Ezzard Charles following Joe Louis and then defend and beat him.

Holmes without a doubt.

i am not mad but i think Lennox would have beaten any other heavy best of 3 fights
my opinion only i guess :)

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Originally Posted by althetruthhindley

i am not mad but i think Lennox would have beaten any other heavy best of 3 fights
my opinion only i guess :)

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Don't think so to be honest Lewis was good but he wasn't a great in terms of skill imo.

I think Holmes is a top 5 HW of all time, but his division wasn't much better than the HW division is now. I would love to have seen him prime in the nineties or early seventies :-\

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Originally Posted by BIG H

I think Holmes is a top 5 HW of all time, but his division wasn't much better than the HW division is now. I would love to have seen him prime in the nineties or early seventies :-\

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You know Holmes is my fav so i gotta stick up for him here hws back then wasn't greatest but still had some good hws who were in shape and talented id like to name some

Ken Norton
Earnie Shavers
Tim Witherspoon
Carl Williams
Gerry Cooney

All good opponents and if Holmes was in 70s he would of beat Frazier and Foreman would of had hard time with both but still would of won Jimmy Young would of give him hell tough one to call and Holmes vs Ali match would be close call to close imo and in 90s Holmes would of beat em all ;)

Michael Spinks is the most underrated heavy weight of all time