lennox lewis the greatest heavyweight of all time.

[StarshipTrooper]

Lewis could be put into top 5, with alot of love. But top 3, nah. But again, he SHOULD be in ANY top 10, that's a fact.

I personally have Lewis at #13: A near-great but not an ATG. Who on Earth should I to have him crack the top 10 or 12?

01. Muhammad Ali
02. Joe Louis
03. Jack Johnson
04. Jack Dempsey
05. Larry Holmes
06. Sonny Liston
07. Evander Holyfield
08. George Foreman
09. Rocky Marciano
10. Mike Tyson
11. Joe Frazier
12. Harry Wills

[T.McGrady]

IMO lewis is way underrated, but he's not the greatest HW off all-time. Hey wait...i though foreman said ali was the greatest.

[Joeyzagz]

you are deluded, you also know that what you are trying to imply is a figment of your own vivid imagination, your claim, "Vitali failed miserably when it counted

Miserably because Vitali had every conceivable advantage in the fight and still failed.

Lennox was out of shape, 10 pounds overweight, coming off a year of inactivity. On top of that he is almost 38 years old, and certainly not prime.

Vitali, is bigger, stronger, more active, and he is in his absolute prime at 31 years old. He has the hunger of a starving challenger while Lennox was complacent and content with beating Mike Tyson.

Larry Merchant even said that "the conditions for an upset were ripe coming in" (but could Vitali take advantage of it?) The answer is NO. Six year youth advantage and still failure.

Vitali beat Lewis up, he was ahead on ALL judges scorecards

Scorecards are good for basketball games and football games but are as worthless as toilet paper in a fight like this. Maybe he couldve used those score cards to plug the gaping hole in his face?

Vitali was going for mindless volume, while Lennox landed the focused and more strategic shots. Quality over Quantity, thats how he won. Vitali did well in the 2nd but the rest was an excellent chess match by Lewis.

[turdleburgle]

Rahman & McCall was both bums... your talking as tho he beat two great fighters in these rematches... Oleg Maskaev poleaxed Rahman TWICE and in far more spectacular fashion than Lewis did.. Buster Douglas knocked McCall from pillar-to-post, McCall was beaten by cruiserweights Mike Hunter & Orlin Norris as well as being soundly beaten by Tony Tucker... Lewis got McCall out of a drug-rehab to avenge his defeat otherwise he would never have went anywhere near McCall..Lewis stripped of the WBA title for refusing to fight No1 contender John Ruiz... Lewis stripped of the IBF title for refusing to fight No1 contender Chris Byrd... Lewis stripped of the WBC title for refusing to fight No1 contender Vitali Klitschko... "Lewis the rabbit" who ran from all the top dogs.

maskaev got lucky in the 1st rahman fight and rahman was completely shot in the rematch,he was in his prime when lewis brutally knocked him out cold.



I never said they were great but they were good fighters and lewis proved they got lucky when he dominated both in the rematch.lol at you saying lewis got him out of rehab,you must be on something to say that mate hahaha



why would lewis fought ruiz when he fought the guy who destroyed ruiz in the first twenty seconds? makes no sense,so lewis didn't duck him at all.

[Joeyzagz]

Rahman & McCall was both bums... your talking as tho he beat two great fighters in these rematches... Oleg Maskaev poleaxed Rahman TWICE and in far more spectacular fashion than Lewis did..

Lewis KOd Rahman quicker than anyone else did in history including Wladimir who fought Rahman 7 years after.

The punches sounded like a double barreled ******* and were fired just as quick...how is that not spectacular?

[-Lowkey-]

I personally have Lewis at #13: A near-great but not an ATG. Who on Earth should I to have him crack the top 10 or 12?

01. Muhammad Ali
02. Joe Louis
03. Jack Johnson
04. Jack Dempsey
05. Larry Holmes
06. Sonny Liston
07. Evander Holyfield
08. George Foreman
09. Rocky Marciano
10. Mike Tyson
11. Joe Frazier
12. Harry Wills

Lewis was better than and would have dispatched of all the bolded

[Tyson.]

I have Lewis at number 6.

Hes behind Ali, Louis, Johnson, Holmes and Foreman.

[StarshipTrooper]

Lewis was better than and would have dispatched of all the bolded

While you MIGHT be able to make a case for Lewis being better than Marciano or Wills, the others? No way.

Poet

[sonnyboyx2]

Lewis KOd Rahman quicker than anyone else did in history including Wladimir who fought Rahman 7 years after.

The punches sounded like a double barreled ******* and were fired just as quick...how is that not spectacular?

James Toney

[sonnyboyx2]

maskaev got lucky in the 1st rahman fight and rahman was completely shot in the rematch,he was in his prime when lewis brutally knocked him out cold.



I never said they were great but they were good fighters and lewis proved they got lucky when he dominated both in the rematch.lol at you saying lewis got him out of rehab,you must be on something to say that mate hahaha



why would lewis fought ruiz when he fought the guy who destroyed ruiz in the first twenty seconds? makes no sense,so lewis didn't duck him at all.

Maskaev got lucky.... they got lucky.. ha