30 Year Old Lennox Lewis v 30 Year Old Larry Holmes.Who Wins

[Spicoli]

I really dont see a walk in the park for either guy and think Lewis has a great shot.Holmes Jab is one for the ages,belongs encased in glass in the Smithsonian but Lewis had a nice stick as well,not to mention natural height,weight and pure size Holmes had rarely...if ever faced the likes of?Cooney?Holmes was a crafty gamesmen,sharp mind just as Lewis had shown to be and while Lewis's mind wandered in spots....lack of prep...he could close range quickly and be explosive with either hand.

Well Larry Holmes while being, quite a bit past his prime. Did defeat 6'5 Carl Williams in a close fight.

No doubt.Freakish reach as well,but a pretty raw Williams who had not the arsenal-power of Lewis....and a chin which makes Lewis's look like solid granite.

[ICB]

Thought would see what peoples opinions are on a fight between those two Larry Holmes V Lennox Lewis say if fight took place and they were both 30 years old...I think Larry Holmes might win on points.

Larry Holmes comfortably on points, he has the better jab. Lennox Lewis got out jabbed by Ray Mercer, Frank Bruno. So i don't see how he deals with Larry Holmes's jab.

He's also faster, has better stamina, more athletic, better footwork, better chin. He basically holds most advantages over Lennox Lewis, except power but Larry Holmes has a very good chin, and has the heart to get up and win.

Larry Holmes by UD pretty comfortably.

He still won though

Yes but thats Ray Mercer, Frank Bruno, two fighters who couldn't carry Larry Holmes's spit bucket. And to be honest i thought the Ray Mercer fight was very close, and i had it a draw. And remember a 42 year old Larry Holmes handled Ray Mercer comfortably over 12 rounds.

And i had Lennox Lewis behind against Frank Bruno, until he swung a desperate wild left hook out of the corner, which turned the fight in his favor and he got the stoppage which is too his credit, but still Frank Bruno has no survival instincts at all. And he everytime he's got in serious trouble he hasn't a clue what to do.

My point was not to discredit Lennox Lewis, my point was that he struggled against fighters with decent jabs. And i seriously can't see him beating the best Heavyweiht jabber of all time, if he struggled against Ray Mercer's jab.

[C.J.Rock]

Lennox takes it by comfortable decision

[johnsebastianmiran]

I was watching boxing when it was on commercial television two to four times a week just to get that out of the way. Larry Holmes was in Ali's shadow so he was grossly underrated. One more thing, I am not in any way a Holmes fan but he won and usually with no doubt. He was never caught napping when he was champ. He did lose to Micheal Spinks but Holmes was no longer a young man. Lennox has been out hustled even in his prime and lost his title to an emotionall unstable man in one instance and a lucky one in the second instance because he lacked conentration and Rahman was a lucky bastard. Holmes was hard to hit and you could find Lennox. Sometimes you'd have to wonder which Lennox was showing up but nonetheless he kept winning and evry so often he was baited into ugly situations but Larry made you ugly. Get the picture? Holmes-Tyson? Larry was looking for his pipe and slippers, the show was over andf the same can be said for Iron Mike being a rusty pipe bent by Lennox the plumber, it was all over.

[VictorCharlie]

Holmes 8 rounds to 4

[BIG H]

Classic match up for me this one. I think both Lewis and Holmes were at their peak aged 32, but aged 30 is a good point to match them.

Like has been said before Lewis did struggle (not always!) with fast long jabs, but again, as already said, he always found a way to win against them. To say that Holmes would easily beat Lewis is way off imo. NOBODY ever outboxed Lennox Lewis, he got KTFO twice by great punches and was well matched against Mercer and Klitchko, but he was never outboxed and soundly beaten over the course of a fight. That said, I still think Holmes was marginally better and would've jabbed his way to a UD.

[WelshDevilRob]

Hard to seperate them as they are pretty equal in most departments. Holmes had the better chin while Lennox had the greater power.

Lennox edges a decision.

[porkypara]

IMO Holmes is the most underrated ever due to the fact he followed Ali but also he pissed people off with all his bullshit talk.(still is today)

But that does not take away the fact that on his night IMO Holmes could beat any heavyweight in history.


As has already been said Holmes jab would be the key keeping Lewis off balence (which was not always great anyway).

I think Lewis would struggle to get himself into any pattern and be just looking to try and land the big right.


Holmes on points.

[Jody Lane]

I see a lot of decisions here. This fight I don't think would have gone the entire 12 or 15 rounds. I liked Lennox Lewis very much. Way more than Frank Bruno. And I saw Larry Holmes overall as the best heavyweight of the 1980s including Tyson. Had Tyson fought Holmes in Holmes prime, I think Holmes would have picked him apart for a decision like Lewis did with David Tua.

Holmes against Lewis in their primes would have been an all out war, where I could see Holmes getting knocked down and coming back to stop Lewis like he did against Ernie Shavers.

[CGM]

I don't know if I'd bet on him, but I give a properly motivated and sufficiently active Lewis a decent chance. Lewis tended to do just what needed to be done in order to win. He certainly had the power to deal with Holmes.

Lewis - Tyson was kind of an exception. Tyson was way past it, but Lewis let it all hang out, showing much more of everything than he usually did.

[DaxxKahn]

at 30 Larry...The 35 yr old version of Lennox beats any version of Larry...Lennox did not become a true master of the ring until later in his career