Is Lennox Lewis The Greatest HW Of All Time?

[RAESAAD]

Lennox is also one of the very few fighters that beat every man he ever stepped in the ring with......He avenged both of his losses by KO.....well the 2nd McCall fight was very,very strange but nonetheless he won by TKO.

[butterfly1964]

Lennox Lewis is a top 10 heavyweight, but far from the greatest heavyweight of all-time, Head-to-head or accomplishment-wise. Muhammad Ali is the best heavyweight ever and Lewis pales in comparison.

[Southpaw Stinger]

Lennox Lewis is a top 10 heavyweight, but far from the greatest heavyweight of all-time, Head-to-head or accomplishment-wise. Muhammad Ali is the best heavyweight ever and Lewis pales in comparison.

Totally dude

[Mike Tyson77]

top 10.....

[JC Warrior]

He was stretched by a single punch twice in his career by guys who couldn't crack anyone's top 50. For smarts maybe he gets a beneficial nod, but I don't see him having greater ring intelligence than a post 40 George Foreman or Larry Holmes, both of whom would likely torture Lewis in their primes.

Off the top of my head Ali, Louis, Marciano, Holmes, Liston, Tyson, Foreman, Frazier, Dempsey, they all rate ahead of Lewis. Against second teir greats Lewis is probably favored; Norton, Holyfield, Patterson, Bowe, Walcott...

Lewis wasn't dominant enough to clearly earn favor over the upper echelon guys. It wouldn't be out of reach to envision any of those named to flatten Lewis with a mediocre shot with the exception of the feather fisted Holyfield, but even that shell of Holyfield gave Lewis serious trouble in round 3 of the first fight and round 7 of the second fight.

Aside from quality of competition (Lewis did fight everyone even if they were old) where's the compelling case for Lewis in the top 10? Even the top 15?

[Greatwhitehope]

Powerful, smart and had a deceptively decent chin and was no slouch.


No he isn't the greatest heavyweight of all time.

[Flab]

Question: Is Lennox Lewis The Greatest HW Of All Time?

Answer: Yes!

[Darkstranger]

Lennox Lewis is a top 10 heavyweight, but far from the greatest heavyweight of all-time, Head-to-head or accomplishment-wise. Muhammad Ali is the best heavyweight ever and Lewis pales in comparison.

For me personally, the man in your avatar was the greatest heavyweight of all time!

[Darkstranger]

The problem with threads like this is that peole view greatness differently. Some only think of it in terms of opponents faced, staying undefeated or number of defences.

Where as other people take into account the fighters life as a whole and what personal adversities he had to overcome in order to be a champion.

[Panamaniac]

The problem with threads like this is that peole view greatness differently. Some only think of it in terms of opponents faced, staying undefeated or number of defences.

Where as other people take into account the fighters life as a whole and what personal adversities he had to overcome in order to be a champion.

Boy, that's deep...