Lennox Lewis: Could Lewis Still Dominate The Heavyweight Division?

[Chino]

I think the question of this thread is wrong where it says "Could Lewis STILL dominate..." I don't really think he DOMINATED the weight. After Tyson started to fade I don't think anybody really DOMINATED the weight. Everybody was pretty much snatching the titles like playing rugby. The last fighter to dominate the heavyweights had to be Mike Tyson either you hate him or not.

Chino

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Anyone who thinks Lennox was on a route to ko vitali is clearly not being objective. Its ok, i understand there are hard core lennox fans, But Point blank,
LENNOX PUNCH STATS WERE DWINDLING! each round
Vitali took a fierce uppercut, that snapped his head back, and STILL kept comming forward.
Lennox lewis was gasping for air during the TKO call, and vitali was Fully energized.
Lennox lewis promised vitali a rematch, THEN RETIRED.
Lennox lewis was out of shape (YOUR THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP) TOO BAD.
Take a look at the Compu Box. Lennox was gettin his a*** handed to em, and it was only going to get worse.
Anyone who thinks that Vitali klitschko was not a major factor in lennox lewis retiring, just cannot live with the fact that lennox may of left with the belt after that fight, but vitali left with more. People wanted vitali, and the only reason people cared that lewis retired was because they knew they wouldnt see a Lennox vs vitali II to watch the proper ending!

Why are you using the term 'anyone who thinks Lennox was on route to KO Vitaly?'

HE TKO'D HIM. Forget being on route. Vitaly got stopped on cuts, which came from a right hand. Why do people get so caught up in fantisizing about what 'might have' happened? The only thing that's concrete is WHAT HAPPENED. Vitaly got TKOd. And spare me the 'oh well, um, he didn't get knocked out, it was just from cuts.' If the man didn't rip open like a b!tch maybe he would have stood a better chance. Lennox gets the W and a notch in the KO department. Time to accept it and move on.

Great post again Samson .

Someone posted earlier that Vitali took Lewis best uppercut in the 6th and kept coming forward , but it looked like he was stumbling forward to me . How could have Vitali gone on to win ? His best shots bounced off Lewis and Lewis was getting better in teh fight Vitali was getting weaker . I agree when you say " what cuda happend " duznt matta cuz what did happen is Lewis tko'd Vitali and it wasnt even a prime Lewis . A prepared Lewis would have done him in half the time.

As for Lewis retirement - Some say he pussied oyt , well did Vitali pussy out against Rahman ? or was it Williams that retired him ?

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Ahaha! i forgot about that Klitschko lovin Seven Dunce dude....

Shat, id of made my Saddo comeback just to argue with him

To make it clear, NO.

No, i dont think Lewis would dominate now as he WAS dwindling back in 2003. Yes Klitschko gave all sorts of trouble but he was worryingly out of shape... That just cannot be overlooked (at his age).

So now, its highly unlikely that he could mount much of a charge towards division dominance.

But back in the day, he was King, NO question!

[Big_Deuce]

Vitali Klitschko had a legit injury, and he did the HONORABLE thing by forfeiting the belt so others can take it, and move on. Vitali klitschko scared of Rahman? you have got to be kidding me.
Lennox lewis did Dominate the HWD, he was a dominant fighter in his era. But his era was filled with overhyped fighters, and fighters way past their prime.

[Big_Deuce]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq1_IA5Ssbk
if you can watch this vid, and say lennox wasnt gettin a beat DOWN, then your crazy

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Vitali Klitschko had a legit injury, and he did the HONORABLE thing by forfeiting the belt so others can take it, and move on. Vitali klitschko scared of Rahman? you have got to be kidding me.
Lennox lewis did Dominate the HWD, he was a dominant fighter in his era. But his era was filled with overhyped fighters, and fighters way past their prime.

Yeah but you get that a lot in all boxing eras.

I mean Ali beat Fraizer after he had his ass handed to him by Foreman, so it could be argued that Fraizer was already damaged goods.
He WAS kinda lucky to get his decisions over Norton and i STILL say to this day that if Foreman had a rematch, he would of killed Ali.

Holmes was another excelent fighter who beat a faded Norton (albiet with one arm) to win his belt and then also fought a succession of over hyped and past prime fighters....

Tyson, about the same.

Marciano... Dont even get me started!

It could even be argued that Louis reign was marred by low level opposition...

But it could never mean we could argue that they weren't great champions (Bar Tyson, Maybe)

So why the hate on Lewis?

What exactly did Klitschko achive that surpasses him?

Hi Duce

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Vitali Klitschko had a legit injury, and he did the HONORABLE thing by forfeiting the belt so others can take it, and move on. Vitali klitschko scared of Rahman? you have got to be kidding me.
Lennox lewis did Dominate the  HWD, he was a dominant fighter in his era. But his era was filled with overhyped fighters, and fighters way past their prime.

 andrew golota who was fresh off battering bowe around
razor ruddock who give tyson two hard fights
gary mason was 35-0 when he fought lewis
ray mercer aswell was good opponent for anyone in his prime
tommy morrison had chin problems but still decent fighter
frank bruno wasnt bad fighter either he just lacked survival instinct
david tua is good fighter he gave ike very tough fight and he was 37-1 when he fought lewis
michael grant yes not best fighter in world but he was still 31-0 when he fought lewis
tony tucker was 49-1 when he fought lewis and had gave prime tyson tough fight winning 4 rounds and wobbling tyson badly in 1st round with uppercut
holyfield yes bit past it but still very competitive
and few other mediocre oppoents like botha and briggs i wouldnt really call that overhyped opponents

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Well i dunno, i mean look at their records at the time of fighting Lewis....

Then look a few years down the line.

Most of em were over Hyped or over rated (Grant, Tua, Mason, Morrison)
And some were just over the hill (Tyson, Holifeild, Tucker)

So i wouldnt claim that Lewis fought loads of great fighters....

But none the less, Lewis did come up with the goods. His performances agianst Tua, Golota, Ruddock and Tyson were just pure immac.

[Big_Deuce]

who said vitali surpasses lennox.
IM SAYIN LEWIS WAS A DOMINANT FIGHTER IN AN ERA WITH WANNA BE"S AND OLD MEN.



A HUGE REASON LENNOX LEWIS RETIRED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq1_IA5Ssbk

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actually this is better link to vitali and lewis its full fight http://vidsearch.myspace.com/index.c...oid=1202605071 ENJOY

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who said vitali surpasses lennox.
IM SAYIN LEWIS WAS A DOMINANT FIGHTER IN AN ERA WITH WANNA BE"S AND OLD MEN.



A HUGE REASON LENNOX LEWIS RETIRED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq1_IA5Ssbk

well i would disagree they wernt best fighters but they certainly wernt wanabes they were decent opposition and he retired because he was getting older and he didnt have tools no more i can understand that he beat vitali thats all there is to it yes maybe vitali was up by 2 rounds but a win is a win vitalis eye was bloody mess if it would of gone on anymore vitali would of maybe gone blind in one eye or if not it would of been worse injury than it was

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

IM SAYIN LEWIS WAS A DOMINANT FIGHTER IN AN ERA WITH WANNA BE"S AND OLD MEN.

So who exactly did Klittschko fight?

Danny Williams? Bwahaha

Listen, its impossible to talk Lewis down in aid of talking Klitscko up.... just because he fought an old fat Lennox does not make him better.

Honestly.. Is Ricky Hatton better than Kostya Tszyu?

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Lewis avoided Chris Byrd for fuck sakes he said "who wants to see a lion fight a bird" fucking pathetic

Who really wanted to see the heavyweight champion of the world fight a "white Buffalo" The guy is so contrived

The only "dangerous" fight lewis took was Tua and Tua wasnt even unbeaten, holyfields best win was the rematch with Moorer but we were later to find out that Moorer wasnt that good anyway, Tyson wasnt there since 90.

Akinwande dropped Lewis and got disqualified for holding when lwis was doing at least 50% of it himself after feeling some power, Mavrovitch bullied Lewis against the ropes the entire fight and was unlucky not to get the decision, same with mercer.

Lewis had only a couple of weeks to prepare for Klitschko, well same can be said for Vitali, he took the fight at short notice, he was the one who offered himself as an opponent after johnson dropped out, they had both been training the same for their bouts and Vitali was the fitter in the fight, what would it have been like if Vitali had a decent amount of time to prepare for Lennox, not much different because both were as fit as they were gonna be really, as they were already fighting that night, Lewis did well to cut Vitali but had he not, Lewis had always had stamina problems and the last round we saw was probably his last round of effort, he slumped in to his stool at the end of the round because there was no strength left in him

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Lewis avoided Chris Byrd for F*** sakes he said "who wants to see a lion fight a bird" F****** pathetic

Who really wanted to see the heavyweight champion of the world fight a "white Buffalo" The guy is so contrived

The only "dangerous" fight lewis took was Tua and Tua wasnt even unbeaten, holyfields best win was the rematch with Moorer but we were later to find out that Moorer wasnt that good anyway, Tyson wasnt there since 90.

Akinwande dropped Lewis and got disqualified for holding when lwis was doing at least 50% of it himself after feeling some power, Mavrovitch bullied Lewis against the ropes the entire fight and was unlucky not to get the decision, same with mercer.

Lewis had only a couple of weeks to prepare for Klitschko, well same can be said for Vitali, he took the fight at short notice, he was the one who offered himself as an opponent after johnson dropped out, they had both been training the same for their bouts and Vitali was the fitter in the fight, what would it have been like if Vitali had a decent amount of time to prepare for Lennox, not much different because both were as fit as they were gonna be really, as they were already fighting that night, Lewis did well to cut Vitali but had he not, Lewis had always had stamina problems and the last round we saw was probably his last round of effort, he slumped in to his stool at the end of the round because there was no strength left in him

only dangerous fight was tua what about razor ruddock and golota ?? the only reason tua wasnt unbeaten because he fought one of the best hws in 90s ike who threw like 900s punches that was close fight and ike just edged it

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Lewis avoided Chris Byrd for F*** sakes he said "who wants to see a lion fight a bird" F****** pathetic

Who really wanted to see the heavyweight champion of the world fight a "white Buffalo" The guy is so contrived

The only "dangerous" fight lewis took was Tua and Tua wasnt even unbeaten, holyfields best win was the rematch with Moorer but we were later to find out that Moorer wasnt that good anyway, Tyson wasnt there since 90.

Akinwande dropped Lewis and got disqualified for holding when lwis was doing at least 50% of it himself after feeling some power, Mavrovitch bullied Lewis against the ropes the entire fight and was unlucky not to get the decision, same with mercer.

Lewis had only a couple of weeks to prepare for Klitschko, well same can be said for Vitali, he took the fight at short notice, he was the one who offered himself as an opponent after johnson dropped out, they had both been training the same for their bouts and Vitali was the fitter in the fight, what would it have been like if Vitali had a decent amount of time to prepare for Lennox, not much different because both were as fit as they were gonna be really, as they were already fighting that night, Lewis did well to cut Vitali but had he not, Lewis had always had stamina problems and the last round we saw was probably his last round of effort, he slumped in to his stool at the end of the round because there was no strength left in him

So i guess that for aguments sake, your gonna inform me that Byrd would of beaten Lewis right?