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Lewis was a bum. over-rated with a very suspect chin.
I don't think so on the suspect chin. You don't have to have a weak chin for any heavyweight to be able to knock you out. You just have to get hit ... I never saw his fight with Oliver but have seen the first fight with Rahman a few times. What was suspect for Lewis in that fight was his preparation and his defense.

I would guess very few heavyweights would be able to take that particular punch from Rahman without dire results.

I did see Lewis' fight against Bruno recently and was a bit surprised at how sloppy he looked ... not physically sloppy as in out of shape, but a bit wild and inaccurate. Most of his fights that I have seen, though, were his later fights and he always impressed me with his precision.
His balance in Bruno fight was bad.
He was a transformed fighter after he got with Stewart . Compare his fights with Morrisson and Bruno and it looks like two different fighters.

There was abit of bad blood with Bruno and that may have had something to do with it . Lewis traded jabs and Bruno was roughing him up with shots behind the head . When Lewis whacked him back , Mickey Vann pulled him up for it . Pepe Correra was also a useless trainer and Lewis won that fight on his own . Bruno got silly in round 7 with those cheeky uppercuts in sucession and Lewis swung a massive left hook that landed perfectly which started all the trouble. Bruno had he had his senses about him , should have taken a knee but he stood there and allowed Lewis the time to pick his punches