Oh dear!

[Taeth]

Lennox Lewis was better, he fought a lot more dangerous threats in their prime, and he ko'ed most of them.

Calzaghe is a great fighter, but Roy land a lot when he threw, I think his biggest fault is he didn't follow anything up, in his prime Roy didn't just potshot with one punch, he would do it from time to time, but he would mix in combinations as well, and he would go to the body.
Hesitation or lack of reflexes he once had were why Roy wasn't getting off.

[Kev]

Lennox Lewis was better, he fought a lot more dangerous threats in their prime, and he ko'ed most of them.

Calzaghe is a great fighter, but Roy land a lot when he threw, I think his biggest fault is he didn't follow anything up, in his prime Roy didn't just potshot with one punch, he would do it from time to time, but he would mix in combinations as well, and he would go to the body.
Hesitation or lack of reflexes he once had were why Roy wasn't getting off.

Well first of all Taeth I'm glad you've given Calzaghe credit today and acknowleged he's a great fighter.

But I don't rate Lewis above Calzaghe at all.

I mean I don't see his wins any more impressive than Calzaghe. Roy Jones was no more shot than Tyson was when Lewis fought him.

And Holyfield was not a bigger win that Hopkins, actually I'd rate Hopkins a bigger win for Joe than Holyfield was for Lewis seeing how Holyfield had been some huge wars by then, had been knocked out by Bowe and was much smaller than Lewis anyhow.

His other wins against guys like Razor Ruddock, Mercer, Tucker etc arn't better than Kessler, Lacy, Eubank imo.

And most importantly Lewis got knocked out TWICE, and to pretty mediocre fighters at that in a world sense.

His resume as it stands is about equal to Joe's (certainly not better imo) but with two devasting KO losses both whilst in his prime I really don't see how he can rate higher than Joe.

They both totally unified their chosen division, they both beat everyone in their respective divisions that would fight them, but Joe held his title for far longer, made far more consecutive defenses, moved up and conquered another weight class (maybe conquered is a bit strong without a Dawson fight) and never ever got beat.

He HAS to be higher than Lewis imo.