Mercer vs Lewis: Your scorecards.

[IronDanHamza]

Thought Mercer edged it.

[billeau2]

I don't agree that he didn't train properly for mercer. I remember coming into the fight that lewis stated he respected mercer and saw him as a threat. that's what enabled him to absorb punishment that he couldn't absorb in guys like mcall and rahman that he obviously didn't respect. mercer just happened to be on top of his game this night and he almost pulled it off

Thing is its not my opinion it something that was stated by Lewis during the prefight interview. You may feel it was an excuse, but lets be clear that it was Lewis who opined...

[RubenSonny]

Thought Mercer edged it.

Same, I have never scored it for Lewis.

[Ben Bolt]

About Mercer, I still remember his great year of 1991.
Two fights only, but taking the unbeaten tags of two other
tremendous heavies in their prime.
Francesco Damiani (so, so underestimated) and Tommy Morrison.

All three put their “0” in the loss column at stake for a WBO belt,
which wasn’t worth much at the time (by the way, WBO belts still ain’t).
Credit!

Compared to today, when it seems a lot of fighters are too keen on
protecting their “0”, picking opponents carefully. But so perhaps they must.
Pay-TV rules, and a fighter without a “0” may find it harder to be invited to
the limelight.

[TBear]

About Mercer, I still remember his great year of 1991.
Two fights only, but taking the unbeaten tags of two other
tremendous heavies in their prime.
Francesco Damiani (so, so underestimated) and Tommy Morrison.

All three put their “0” in the loss column at stake for a WBO belt,
which wasn’t worth much at the time (by the way, WBO belts still ain’t).
Credit!

Compared to today, when it seems a lot of fighters are too keen on
protecting their “0”, picking opponents carefully. But so perhaps they must.
Pay-TV rules, and a fighter without a “0” may find it harder to be invited to
the limelight.

I agree about all this.

[Mugwump]

The fight was close. Very close. A plausible argument can me made for either fighter being the victor. But to beat the champ you have to do more than edge it, IMO.

Those who inevitably emerge in such threads spraying rabies-bearing phlegm and screaming "ROBBERY!" a) haven't watched the fight, b) don't know the rules of boxing (any of them) or c) are embittered K nuthuggers still desperately trying to land so much as a glancing blow on the reputation of a proud Anglo-African triple-world heavyweight champion (in a pretty decent era) who behaved like a gentleman, respected the sport and is unlikely - EVER - to take dirty money from foreign industrialists and bankers whilst goose-stepping parade alongside oath-taking *******s whose only criticism of Hitler is that he was overly sympathetic to ***s, Slavs, Poles, Gypsies and the mentally challenged.

[StarshipTrooper]

The fight was close. Very close. A plausible argument can me made for either fighter being the victor. But to beat the champ you have to do more than edge it, IMO.

Those who inevitably emerge in such threads spraying rabies-bearing phlegm and screaming "ROBBERY!" a) haven't watched the fight, b) don't know the rules of boxing (any of them) or c) are embittered K nuthuggers still desperately trying to land so much as a glancing blow on the reputation of a proud Anglo-African triple-world heavyweight champion (in a pretty decent era) who behaved like a gentleman, respected the sport and is unlikely - EVER - to take dirty money from foreign industrialists and bankers whilst goose-stepping parade alongside oath-taking *******s whose only criticism of Hitler is that he was overly sympathetic to ***s, Slavs, Poles, Gypsies and the mentally challenged.

:chuckle9: For the record I had Lennox edging it by a round.....