Would Lennox Stand a chance if he made a comeback at 45?

[marbleheadmaui]

In his prime he'd smash Wlad with ease.

Foreman's chin was titanium. Lennox's was, ahem, not.

If you think lewis' jaw was glass then you must know less about boxing than I thought.

Lewis was knocked out by two different journeymen while in his prime. I can't think of another heavyweight one might argue is great of whom that is true. Can you?

Journeymen?

So Rahman is a top contender when you're dealing with Wlad but a journeyman for Lewis? Funny.

Laughable innit. A 34-2 journeyman

LOL, 34-2 tells you something? So Chavez jr must be a legend at what 44-0? Records without context mean nothing. His biggest win going in was who exactly? Sanders? He'd been drilled by both Tua and Maskaev before that fight. Rahman is a journeyman.

He was beating both Tua and Maskaev before being stopped, but regardless, losing to those 2 does not make you a journeyman. Beating Corrie Sanders (who levelled Wlad) does not make you a journeyman.

So was JCC a journeyman at 44-0. Not being alegend and being a journeyman are not even in the same ball park. Journeyman do not get to 34-2

Chavez jr has! Marco Rubio was 34-2-1 at one point. The sport's history is LOADED with guys who started out like that and then fizzled at the top level and went into declines.

[AdamGB]

Instead of treating boxing like fantasy football/top trumps he should actually watch the fights and his knowledge of boxing to assess what he's seeing.

He took two massive shots from two strong 240-250lb guys... Not exactly love taps

If your chin takes 250lbs on the chin I don't think it cares what the guys record or skill level

Its boxing, not top trumps... The issue wasn't a glass jaw, it was that he got lazy and got caught when he shouldn't of.

Can't answer the question huh?

Your response to my post is even more redundant than your question was. Didn't and can't are two different things.

[marbleheadmaui]

Instead of treating boxing like fantasy football/top trumps he should actually watch the fights and his knowledge of boxing to assess what he's seeing.

He took two massive shots from two strong 240-250lb guys... Not exactly love taps

If your chin takes 250lbs on the chin I don't think it cares what the guys record or skill level

Its boxing, not top trumps... The issue wasn't a glass jaw, it was that he got lazy and got caught when he shouldn't of.

Can't answer the question huh?

Your response to my post is even more redundant than your question was. Didn't and can't are two different things.

LOL, not in this case it isn't

[AdamGB]

Instead of treating boxing like fantasy football/top trumps he should actually watch the fights and his knowledge of boxing to assess what he's seeing.

He took two massive shots from two strong 240-250lb guys... Not exactly love taps

If your chin takes 250lbs on the chin I don't think it cares what the guys record or skill level

Its boxing, not top trumps... The issue wasn't a glass jaw, it was that he got lazy and got caught when he shouldn't of.

Can't answer the question huh?

Your response to my post is even more redundant than your question was. Didn't and can't are two different things.

[marbleheadmaui]

Instead of treating boxing like fantasy football/top trumps he should actually watch the fights and his knowledge of boxing to assess what he's seeing.

He took two massive shots from two strong 240-250lb guys... Not exactly love taps

If your chin takes 250lbs on the chin I don't think it cares what the guys record or skill level

Its boxing, not top trumps... The issue wasn't a glass jaw, it was that he got lazy and got caught when he shouldn't of.

Can't answer the question huh?

Your response to my post is even more redundant than your question was. Didn't and can't are two different things.

Not in this case

[AdamGB]

I'd wager that both guys hit harder and were better rated than Sonny banks... But you'd have to ask Ali and his well known glass jaw about that.

But I digress... Rather than playing your silly top trumps/trivia game I'm just going to repeat myself and advise you to watch Lewis' knock downs and tell me if he was hit with love taps or huge heavyweight punches that landed right on the money?

[0james0]

In his prime he'd smash Wlad with ease.

Foreman's chin was titanium. Lennox's was, ahem, not.

If you think lewis' jaw was glass then you must know less about boxing than I thought.

Lewis was knocked out by two different journeymen while in his prime. I can't think of another heavyweight one might argue is great of whom that is true. Can you?

The same guy everyone is now lauding, Wlad. He ain't undefeated either. Anyone can be beat, especially at heavyweight.

[El Kabong]

Wlad and Lennox are a lot alike. Sure Lennox had better talent to test himself against, but Wlad has fought everyone he can and beaten them. Both men took their eyes off the prize at a few points in their careers, but they regrouped and were better fighters because of their losses.

But if were talking about Lennox coming back at 45 and fighting Wlad or Vitali. I just don't give him a good chance because he's been retired for so long and hell the guy retired on top he's not coming back, why worry about it?

Lennox was a great fighter but he's retired now and he'll stay that way. Wlad is in his prime, he's going to be around for a few more years I think boxing fans should try to show him some respect.

[ICB]

In his prime he'd smash Wlad with ease.

Foreman's chin was titanium. Lennox's was, ahem, not.

If you think lewis' jaw was glass then you must know less about boxing than I thought.

Lewis was knocked out by two different journeymen while in his prime. I can't think of another heavyweight one might argue is great of whom that is true. Can you?

Journeymen?

So Rahman is a top contender when you're dealing with Wlad but a journeyman for Lewis? Funny.

Hasim Rahman had pretty high KO precentage, and had some good performances. He beat a prime Corrie Sanders in a fantastic Heavyweight scrap, and was beating David Tua by a large margin until he got caught late on.

But i disagree with BIG H and imp's comment, Larry Holmes took a right hand bomb. Flush on the chin by one of the hardest hitting Heavyweight's Earnie Shavers, and was up within 4 seconds.

I know i've repeated that comment a few times, but im a bit sick of reading that those two punches Lennox Lewis got KO'ed with would of KO'd any Heavyweight in history, the Oliver McCall one wasn't even that devastating.

And Riddick Bowe got smashed by 72 power punches by Andrew Golota in one round, and survived. There's plenty of Heavyweight's who were tougher than Lennox Lewis, but there's few who were as skilled as him.

[Jody Lane]

Many here said about 5 or 6 years ago that if Tyson could get into shape and be 50 percent of what he once was he would be champ again. We saw how that turned out. I don't think Lennox wants to make a comeback and that's enough to say no to the threads title question.

[Pavlik]

no

[brocktonblockbust]

oh I get it ADAMGB. So the alltime great Hasim Rahman and Oliver McCall have some kind of DY-NO-MIIIIITE!!!!! in their punches that floored Lummox for a 10 count, cold-cocked, out of this world KTFO, yet Smokin Joe, Big George, Earnie the Acorn just couldnt manage to land such hard shots against Ali, Holmes, etc... and thats why Frazier and Ali and Holmes and Lyle etc could keep getting up.
BUT OH, ALI WOULDNT HAVE GOTTEN UP, NOR HOLMES, NOR FRAZIER, HAD THAT ALLTIME GREAT PUNCHER OLIVER OR HASIM LANDED THOSE SHOTS.

[AdamGB]

They would have been hurt by them... that's for sure. Maybe not knocked out cold... but you're talking about guys who's chins are ranked as the best of all time.

Jesus Christ, you're just banging on about the same things I addressed in my first post. Troll much?

Again, just because I am saying that he didn't have a glass jaw... it doesn't mean that I am saying that Lewis' chin was ever in the same realm as Ali's or Foreman's (who incidentally was dropped by Ali... a relatively light puncher... but as I KEEP SAYING - this is heavyweight boxing and under the right circumstances anybody can be dropped).

Lewis' jaw wasn't glass... it wasn't in the same realm as Ali's either... it was decent.

Why am I having to repeat the same points over and over to you? Is the concept of a middle ground existing between 'glass jawed' and 'granite chin' really such a complicated concept for you to understand?

If you can count to 3 you ought to understand what a 'middle' is?

[BIG H]

They would have been hurt by them... that's for sure. Maybe not knocked out cold... but you're talking about guys who's chins are ranked as the best of all time.

Jesus Christ, you're just banging on about the same things I addressed in my first post. Troll much?

Again, just because I am saying that he didn't have a glass jaw... it doesn't mean that I am saying that Lewis' chin was ever in the same realm as Ali's or Foreman's (who incidentally was dropped by Ali... a relatively light puncher... but as I KEEP SAYING - this is heavyweight boxing and under the right circumstances anybody can be dropped).

Lewis' jaw wasn't glass... it wasn't in the same realm as Ali's either... it was decent.

Why am I having to repeat the same points over and over to you? Is the concept of a middle ground existing between 'glass jawed' and 'granite chin' really such a complicated concept for you to understand?

If you can count to 3 you ought to understand what a 'middle' is?

Exactly what I was trying to say!!

[BIG H]

In his prime he'd smash Wlad with ease.

Foreman's chin was titanium. Lennox's was, ahem, not.

If you think lewis' jaw was glass then you must know less about boxing than I thought.

Lewis was knocked out by two different journeymen while in his prime. I can't think of another heavyweight one might argue is great of whom that is true. Can you?

Journeymen?

So Rahman is a top contender when you're dealing with Wlad but a journeyman for Lewis? Funny.

Hasim Rahman had pretty high KO precentage, and had some good performances. He beat a prime Corrie Sanders in a fantastic Heavyweight scrap, and was beating David Tua by a large margin until he got caught late on.

But i disagree with BIG H and imp's comment, Larry Holmes took a right hand bomb. Flush on the chin by one of the hardest hitting Heavyweight's Earnie Shavers, and was up within 4 seconds.

I know i've repeated that comment a few times, but im a bit sick of reading that those two punches Lennox Lewis got KO'ed with would of KO'd any Heavyweight in history, the Oliver McCall one wasn't even that devastating.

And Riddick Bowe got smashed by 72 power punches by Andrew Golota in one round, and survived. There's plenty of Heavyweight's who were tougher than Lennox Lewis, but there's few who were as skilled as him.

How Holmes got up from that shot I will never know. Shavers did a terrible job of finishing him, becuase he was out on his feet and there was plenty of time left. As good as that punch was from Shavers, I think Rahman's was more devastating... (maybe )



I am not trying to compare Lewis as one of the great chins, but I still maintain nobody beats the 10 count after that Rahman punch. Just my opinion.