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I think lewis in comparison to ali would have looked slow hand and feet next to ali. Hed look slow and plodding. Lewis a great fighter but Ali would make him look silly, many fighter lewis could beat from the past but stylistically a young ali would have made him look stupid. Holyfield lewis 2 holy was out boxing lewis but onluy fighting in spurts and holy had lost alot of handspeed by 36- 37. Ali in his prime would have been like light speed compared to holy, no way lewis can no way
Well I only say what I have seen ........ and Ali in his prime, people say his prime was 64-67 well I think he was to small for Lewis and Lewis would of took centre ring ... had Ali backing up with the jab and picked him off, you have to remember Ali never fought anyone the size of Lewis and his reach is huge and he is pin point with his jabs and that booming right hand is as powerful as any punch in boxing history, just ask Rahman !!
Ali could move well and looked great doing it, but he weighed not much over 200lbs then .... Lewis could move aswell you know, thats my point... he wouldn't be as fast as Ali but all the other factors would make up for that fact, but to say Lewis was slow is a joke. I think the early rounds Ali would of been doing alot of moving, but would not be effective like he was fighting the likes of Liston.
He probably had the second best footwork next to Ali.
Tell you what there are some Lennox Lewis haters in this world !!
Ive said me peice, can't believe none of you will admit that Ali would definately not have it is way against someone the size and the skill of Lewis.
Lewis would of beat him, the size difference and the power difference and the fact that Lewis was a class clever boxer just like Ali was, it just says to me Lewis would of dropped him !!
Many people say that was alis prime but honestly it was not, Ali put weight on as he got older and was not exactly a smally man as many people believe. Lewis simply would eat the jab all night he would not be able to get off, he would not be able to land his right hand at all. I think lewis could give many heavy weights of the past trouble but certianly not ali, i thinknit have been a mismatch but Im not lewis hater. I go by styles and what i have seen.
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Pac why are you talking about Lewis vs Holyfield, Â Lewis is only a year younger than Holyfield, Â but your talking about Ali when he was 22.
Ive noticed every fighter Lewis beats they were all past their best and all the excuses come out .... Lewis is older than Tyson a year younger than Holyfield. Â Is Lewis Peter Pan or something, Â doesn't age like normal people !!
Lewis-Holyfield 2 Â was closer than the first 1 but Lewis still won it, Â now the first 1 was a boxing masterclass, Â I dont give a fuck what you say, Â Lewis always said he would fight Holyfield like that listen to the commentating on the 1st Holyfield-Bowe fight, Â Lewis is screaming for Bowe to use his jab !!
To many if's but's and excuses for me when yanks start talking about Lewis, Â I only go off what happens in the ring and Lewis wupped everyone from the 90's and finished the show by actually stepping in with the best heavyweight of the next era and stopping him too !! Â Â class act
Lewis is a big man big punch, lewis at 35-36 would give a 35-36 ali nightmares. Ali, holyfield, relied on speed, all I was saying is how if holyfield was 30 lewis 29 Id give the edge to Holy based on styles and quickness. Evander could box all night long not fight in spurts like when lewis fought him. Bigger pucnches fight longer because the punch is the last thing to go. But lewis was unusuall in that in his prime he wasnt in his prime, I thought he looked dreadful agaisnt bruno a c fighter at best and i thought he lost to ray mercer. But had lewsi fought mercer the way he fights now hed beat him its just the way it its. Holyfield againt bowe is what happens when a 206 pund man decides to trade with a 235 plus man he made a huge mistake not boxing in that fight
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So whats his prime then PAC ??? Â Â Â Â Â Â a fucking mismatch ...... LMAO Â Â This gets better, Â OK I'm leaving it there. Â
You always get people that just say ooh .... Ali was the greatest, Â after they have seen a program on the rumble in the jungle or something, Â well I am going off actually watching most of their fights.
I would say Ali was at his best around his last fight before being banned, those three years in all likely hod would have been alis prime.Thats part of boxing just as lewis matured ali matured physically and mentally. I agree with you but I also disagree with you on lewis footwork. Its good for a big man thats all Ill say about that. No matter how good the monstter heavies are they are all somewhat goofy on their feet. To say lennox had footwork like ali is laughable ;D
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Lewis at 35 would put a 36 year old Ali in a fucking coffin ya daft fuck !! lol
Yeah,  heard alot of people say that shit about Mercer winning,  and erm I downloaded the fight the other week cos i couldn't remember it that well,  and then after I watched it I thought,  hmmmm  what the fuck are all them Lennox Lewis haters talking about,  It was a good fight,  oh yeah Lewis proved he had a great chin in that fight too,  put I put money on it if Holyfield would of landed that many punches on Mercer and boxed exactly the same fight no fucker would be saying Mercer won and making a really big point of it,  I had Lewis winning by 2. Â
The Bruno fight, Â Bruno did well but if you know boxing and the story behind the fight you would know Bruno was really up for that fight because they really did not like each other, Â The thing is, Â Lewis KOED him to fuck in 7 rounds, Â Bruno landed a few jabs and a couple of good rights in the fight so fucking what, Â He also rattled Tyson to fuck in the first round of their fight. Â means fuck all !!
About the Holyfield-Bowe fight ..... Â Â Â that was my point exactly, Â your saying thats what happens when a 206lbs man trades with a 235 plus man, Â Â well that was my point about what Lewis was saying, Â why fucking trade with Holyfield when you have got a 8 inch reach advantage and a 4 inch height advantage, Â it was Bowe's mistake not Holyfields !!
The problem is this for me, even with lewis reach i still see him getting outjabbed and simply outworked by a prime holy much like the 2nd fighter only increase holys speed by 40%. either way evander should have reitred after tyson he did what he had wanted to finally due beat the man who he missed from his era, lewis was the up and coming guy and belongs after anyway
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You ask, the likes of Tua, Â Tyson, Holyfield and Rahman about how good Lewis is on his feet, Â all of them could not get inside if their dicks depended on it, Â Â both Tyson's corner and Tua's were pleading with them to get inside and both of them said in the corner .... I cant !! Â watch both fights and its uncanny both say the same. Â And you can say but Tyson was not in his prime and Tua was slow .... Â they seem to get inside fighting every other fucking fighter they have faced !!
Lewis's footwork aint as pretty as Ali's but he could still fucking move better than any other heavyweight I have seen !!
Rocky...you know Lennox gave Byrd a belt just not to have to fight him right?
Also Ernie terrel is exactly the way Lewis fought and was #2 contender at the time ...sorta far from "scraping the bottom of the barrel"
Go play some more video games Marshmellow
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/boxing...ie-Terrell.php
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The up and coming guy, Â Â what the fuck are you on about, Â by 97 Lewis had been champion for 5 years lost and retained it ..... LMAO @ up and coming. Â
I think your getting up and coming mixed up with the fighter Holyfield and Tyson never wanted to face !!
pacdog--did i mistake you ? best when he fought holmes & berbick? ..her was a shell? he wasnt even at his best when he fought foreman ..but most matured....i cant imagine how he could be seen as better towards the end of his carreee when he had parkinsons & took laot of hits ...compared to the day when nobody could even touch him and he was known as having the fastest hands ever? ???Quote:
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Tua is basically mike tyson of the mid 90's. Tyson in his prime had incerdible head movement and swarmed all over you, I dont care what people say i said it myself when he comes out of jail sure he will knock out some guys but he wont be what he was. Im sorry i know your gonna get pissed but if people were saying the tyson that fought holy was shot how much more was he shot against lewis. Tyson looked horrible againast botha, again people who dont knwo boxing will say hell he knocked him out didnt he? yes but mike should have never had that kind of trouble with botha. You state that bruno stunned tyson yes, but again tyson was on the down then. Say what you want after rooney tyson skills noticeably declined. Watch some old clips and youll see in speed an defense mike is another galaxy in the early 80's. bruno was also not in his prime when lewis fought him and lewis struggled against him.
No you misundersttod me, I to me anyway ali looked overall the best near his final fight before exile. Ali struggled in some of his early fights aka doug jones before liston. He just matured much like lewis.