Who can beat a prime Lennox Lewis?

[Southpaw Stinger]

His mother wasn't one to be fucked with.

Jamaican mothers > Prime Tyson

[J.Dempsey]

prime tyson would whoop him ;D

[MANGLER]

Any big puncher had a chance, cuz those were the guys who did beat him. And those 2 weren't altogether really gr8 fighters either.

[RockyB]

I think George Foreman would beat his ass real bad..
if McCall and Rahman knocked him out. imagine what Foreman would do if he got in the right shot!

[BUSINESSMAN]

rahman apparently.

[BUSINESSMAN]

oh yeah, 1973 foreman - ko 2 - lennox. no way lennox ropeadopes his slow ass from big daddys big bombs. one punch and its ova.

[GJC]

Lots of great heavyweight fighters from the past would have little trouble beating a prime Lennox Lewis, if Rahman & McCall could both put Lewis to sleep then Lewis against the greats of the past is quite easily sorted out.. The thing with Lennox Lewis is that he is idolized by British & Canadian fans, those fans are new to the sport of boxing and will claim that Lewis would beat almost any fighter in history even Muhammad Ali, they base their case on Lewis being "To Big" which is ridiculous... Through out his career Lewis was an oppotunist who never ever fought any of his opponents when that opponent was at the top of their game, Lewis always chose to fight fighters who had been exposed as "Not a Threat" and fighters who was on the downside of their careers..
Ruddock - Damaged Goods after 2 brutal beatings from Tyson
Tucker - recovering Junkie and shadow of former self
Butler - more defeats than wins on his record
Fortune - pathetic match-up
Jackson - Class C fighter unworthy of title fight
Bruno - on the slide and gave Lewis a lesson in jabbing & ringsmarts
Tua - Fattest man to ever fight for the title
Mavrovich - who?
Botha - Steroid abuser not worthy of title fight
Golota - Tranquilized by doctors in dressing room after taking panic attack
McCall - Only days out of Drug-Rehab and in no condition to box
Rahman - Bum unworthy of title shot yet poleaxes Lewis
Tyson - more than a decade past his best, shell of former great
Holyfield - Yrs past best and "Robbed" of decision in rematch
Grant - Exposed after being floored by Golota, undeserving of title shot
Morrison - HIV

All the above fighters was on the slide and chosen by Lewis so as to avoid all the top fighters who was at the top of their game from 92-2004 Lewis turned down fights with Rid**** Bowe in 93 & 95, Tyson in 96, Corrie Sanders in 96, Then undefeated WBO Champion Herbie Hide 94-96 Holmes in 93, Moorer in 95.. Lewis stood 1ins taller than Muhammad Ali with Ali fighting many fighters who measured up to Lewis in size and defeating them all as did Larry Holmes, Joe Louis, Dempsey & Marciano, if journeymen Rahman & McCall could put Lewis lights out then the ATGs would smash his lamp into a million pieces.. it is laughable to claim Lewis beats Foreman of 73 or Frazier of 67-71 when he struggled to beat an old Frank Bruno and was fortunate against Ray Mercer & an old Holyfield in their rematch.
Lennox Lewis was stripped of every version of the title for refusing to fight the No1 contenders in John Ruiz (WBA) Chris Byrd (IBF) Vitali Klitschko (WBC) with Lewis promising the boxing world he would face Vitali in a rematch yet dragging out his title reign for 18 months before announcing his retirement only days before he was due to be stripped... Lewis was also in the proccess of sueing Mike Tyson over Tyson not accepting their rematch clause even tho it was clear to every boxing fan worlwide that Mike Tyson was no longer a top flight fighter but a mere shell of the once great fighter he was 15yrs earlier... Lewis turned down the largest purse offer in pro sports history a staggering $35 million + PPV to fight newly crowned WBA champion and ex middleweight king Roy Jones jr.... regardless of who you think would have won that fight, Lennox Lewis never fancied his chances..... The above assesment of the oppotunist career of Lennox Lewis leaves a lot to be desired when the question is asked "How would Lewis do against the greats of the past" --- The answer is, Not very well

It is a shame you have this thing about Lennox Lewis you are a good poster apart from that
Surely as you write he ducked Herbie Hide you must twitch?

[sonnyboyx2]

It is a shame you have this thing about Lennox Lewis you are a good poster apart from that
Surely as you write he ducked Herbie Hide you must twitch?

yes he did duck Hide during the period Hide was the undefeated WBO champion, Hides fights was shown live` on British TV and after each fight when interviewed Hide called-out Lennox Lewis, Lewis had no title so was in no mans land, a fight with Hide at Wembley would have been a huge money fight for Lewis yet he wanted no-part of fighting Hide, simply because Hide was undefeated and as yet "Not Exposed" so to dangerous for Lewis to fight, during that same period 94-96 Rid**** Bowe offered Lewis $10 million to fight yet Lewis wanted nothing of it and turned it down, so Rid**** Bowe went and fought Herbie Hide... i am not saying that Hide would beat Lennox Lewis, what i am saying is Lewis turned down a fight against Hide and the reason for it was because Hide was at the top of his game and had not been exposed as to how good his real potential was... Lewis never in his whole career fought a fighter who was at the top of their game only Vitali Klitschko and he was very fortunate not to come unstuck against him.. Lets not forget that Lennox Lewis was a champion as far back as 1992 yet he never fought any of the great fighters of the 1990s Foreman, Holmes, Sanders, Moorer, Witherspoon, Bonecrusher, Ruiz, Wlad, Byrd, Tyson, Bowe because they was all to big a risk, so he fought the lower-level fighters, Botha, Bruno, Butler, Mavrovick, Grant, Rahman, McCall, Jackson, Billups, Morrison, Akinwande etc
GJC surely you could see that... you was around in 92 following this sport

[GJC]

GJC surely you could see that... you was around in 92 following this sport

Was certainly around in 92 probably in better nick than I am now lol

We did all this in another thread, you put your arguments well and with passion but I don't agree so I guess we'll have to agree to differ.

I'm not a huge fan of Lewis who always struck me as an Englishman of convenience but he was a much better fighter than you give him credit for and I think his resume stands up.

[sonnyboyx2]

Was certainly around in 92 probably in better nick than I am now lol

We did all this in another thread, you put your arguments well and with passion but I don't agree so I guess we'll have to agree to differ.

I'm not a huge fan of Lewis who always struck me as an Englishman of convenience but he was a much better fighter than you give him credit for and I think his resume stands up.

i agree with you in that Lewis was a much better fighter than i seem to give him credit for, yes he was a good fighter but what needles me and i followed his career very closely was his choice of opponents, i am a ******** man and i love to bet on boxing yet Lewis was always unbackable (1/33) and his opponents (8/1) in a 2 dog race as they say...because his choice of opponents was very mediocre exposed fighters, had Lewis fought anyone during the 90s who was at the top of their game like Tyson or Bowe then it would have been a 50/50 fight.. so i cannot agree with you about Lewis resume, it was fully packed full of dogmeat with no prime steak