how good was lennox lewis

[BIG H]

zeljko mav staggered him twice, and that a light-hitting 200 lb. vegetarian to boot.

I'm sure you just make this shit up. Mavrovic never landed a glove on him.

[imp]

He was great at holding and hitting, rabbit punching, backhanding and had a great jab. He had very little stamina, was weak-chinned, but had a very good looping overhand right.

Weak chin?!
Stop talking crap fella
Those punches that felled lewis would have dropped any human being.
Lewis bounced back from those defeats and reversed them.
He had closure.. Unlike khan.

[AdamGB]

zeljko mav staggered him twice, and that a light-hitting 200 lb. vegetarian to boot.

Instead of regurgitating the opinions of haters and fair weather fans... why don't you watch some of his career and form your opinion on what you see with your own eyes... not what you read or hear from others.


Watch:


If he was glass jawed that video wouldn't be 10 seconds long... never mind 10 minutes.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

damn adam, seeing those hooks again will only start up a Tyson/Lewis thread!

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

One thing I will say is that Vitali took Lewis'desire away from him that night. Lewis went away victorious but knowing he'd never come back. He knew his days as 'the man' were up. So for a man who sought closure prior to defeat, it is a shame that he wouldn't afford that same luxury to Vitali who probably to this day still craves it.

[THE THIRD MAN]

No where near the top 10 All time Heavyweight Champions.

[Andre]

zeljko mav staggered him twice, and that a light-hitting 200 lb. vegetarian to boot.

Instead of regurgitating the opinions of haters and fair weather fans... why don't you watch some of his career and form your opinion on what you see with your own eyes... not what you read or hear from others.


Watch:


If he was glass jawed that video wouldn't be 10 seconds long... never mind 10 minutes.

Well with some bitter country rivalry some fans are full on anti English anyway then they were and will be anti Lewis too, so he gets served some unjust stuff after getting ko'd but hey he was the man.

Isnt it amazing how many fighters used the leaping left hook to try and crack him open!

[Mr140]

Man that is the dumbest thing i have heard on saddo ever i mean shit. Lewis not a top 10 heavyweight let me see your top ten list and lack of fucking knowledge you have not to have Lewis up there.

[AdamGB]

zeljko mav staggered him twice, and that a light-hitting 200 lb. vegetarian to boot.

Instead of regurgitating the opinions of haters and fair weather fans... why don't you watch some of his career and form your opinion on what you see with your own eyes... not what you read or hear from others.


Watch:


If he was glass jawed that video wouldn't be 10 seconds long... never mind 10 minutes.

Well with some bitter country rivalry some fans are full on anti English anyway then they were and will be anti Lewis too, so he gets served some unjust stuff after getting ko'd but hey he was the man.

Isnt it amazing how many fighters used the leaping left hook to try and crack him open!

I guess they figured it was the shortest, fasted way to geta hard shot from A to B...

[erics44]

peak lewis and a peak vitali over the course of a few fights the outcomes would be very even

i think lewis and the klits (perhaps more vitali) are the best hws in history

[Mr140]

Just wondering eric do you find Vitali as boring as Wald just curious. I know you do not care for the brothers because you find them boring but i find Vitali to be fun to watch i don't dislike him at all really.

[erics44]

Just wondering eric do you find Vitali as boring as Wald just curious. I know you do not care for the brothers because you find them boring but i find Vitali to be fun to watch i don't dislike him at all really.

no vitali isnt boring, he takes a few more risks

the fight on saturday wasnt boring, he could have stepped it up a bit at times, scored an earlier KO, but then again it probably would have been over in a round and a lot more disapointing

[ElTerribleMorales]

Lewis was and is one of the Greatest heavyweights in history....he beat everyone he fought and would have beaten Wlad much easier if he had trained for him when they fought...Wlad did very well against Lewis due to a few factors

1. Lewis was suppose to fight someone easier that night
2. Lewis under trained
3. Lewis was in that retirement zone

fact is Wlad would have had a very hard nite if Lewis was at his best....Lewis is a true Great and the Klits ARE NOT

job biscuit (anyone got a punture repair kit)!!!

eh eh!!

sorry but Ocean's Eleven wasn't a real fight, Vitali fought Lewis, Wlad didn't, and you can make as many excuses as you want for Lennox but Vitali was getting the best of him once the stoppage came along, and although Lewis has a good resume, the Klitschko's have cleaned out the HW division Lewis did not, he didn't fight other top guys like Ruiz, Byrd, Toney, etc. at the end of his career, and when finally someone was able to go tooth and nail with him he decided to quit, the fact that Vitali retired and came back to have the post retirement career he has against mostly top opposition put's him on par with ANY recent HW champ including Lewis same goes for Wlad

Look at their faces at the end of that fight and then repeat that comment with a straight face.

Technically, yes Vitali was ahead in rounds on the judges scorecards, but Lewis inflicted so much damage that Vitali needed something like 50 stitches and could not continue. That, for me, is far more of an indicator that the round score after 6 rounds in showing who was winiing/won that fight.

And to suggest that Byrd and Ruiz and former 160 pound James Toney were better than the likes of Morrison, McCall, Tua, Tucker, Mercer, a Golota that had just taken Bowe to pieces twice, is laughable

don't really see how it's laughable, seeing how both Ruiz and Byrd did a hell of a lot more than Haye, yet everyone kept trying to play him up as if it was a must do fight for Wlad, whose resume is already stacked, lets face it apart from an old Holyfield, the heavies that Lewis pounded out are just as mediocre as the ones that Wlad and Vitali have stopped, Tua never even won a title hell his ONLY title shot was against Lewis, and well McCall, Morrison, Tucker, Mercer, and well Golota are the Arreola, Chagaev, Haye, Peter, Brewster, and McCline of yesteryear, they did enough to win or challenge for belts yet when they fought actual talent they were stomped

IMO Lewis and ATG don't go together, he doesn't even crack my top 10 yet neither do the Klitschko's

[Fenster]

Lewis ducked Ruiz, Byrd and Toney?

Lets get some things in perspective.

1. No-one gave a shit about Lewis-Byrd. Don King, Byrd's promoter, paid Lewis $1million dollars to give up the IBF title, so Byrd-Holyfield could happen, whilst Lewis was contemplating retirement.

2. Ruiz turned down a Lewis fight on the date he fought Grant. Then got himself involved in the Holyfield WBA shit and lost to Jones. Ruiz being a serious challenger to Lewis is ridiculous.

3. Lewis basically retired after beating Tyson. He was only hanging around for a possible Tyson rematch and massive $30 million pot.

The date Lewis fought Vitali on was originally meant to be a Lewis/Tyson doubleheader. Tyson-Maskaev, Lewis-Johnson HBO PPV. However, Tyson pulled out. This is when Klitschko came into the picture. He fights on Lewis's undercard to set up a POSSIBLE match between the two. But Johnson pulls out so Lewis accepts Klitschko (to stop himself losing a fortune on the promotion).

For people that say they had the same preperation is just ridiculous.

Vitali was 31, a young hungry challenger trying to redeem the Klitschko name. He was seen as a coward. Wlad had just been splattered by Sanders. Lewis was 38, hadn't fought for a year, and spent that time contemplating retirement. Clearly their careers were in completely opposite places. Vitali was entering the fight of his life, with everything to gain and nothing to lose. Lewis was trying to save himself from losing a fortune against a guy that meant nothing to him.

Had Lewis lost there's no doubt there would have been a rematch. He didn't. And didn't need to prove anything against a fighter from a different generation to him.

[brocktonblockbust]

sorry but Ocean's Eleven wasn't a real fight, Vitali fought Lewis, Wlad didn't, and you can make as many excuses as you want for Lennox but Vitali was getting the best of him once the stoppage came along, and although Lewis has a good resume, the Klitschko's have cleaned out the HW division Lewis did not, he didn't fight other top guys like Ruiz, Byrd, Toney, etc. at the end of his career, and when finally someone was able to go tooth and nail with him he decided to quit, the fact that Vitali retired and came back to have the post retirement career he has against mostly top opposition put's him on par with ANY recent HW champ including Lewis same goes for Wlad