Ali or Lewis: better resume of power punchers?

[No Tomorrow]

I'd say Lennox's overall list is better, but if we go off the top of each list I'd favor Ali.

[Fury4daWIN]

I would have to pick the inimitable Muhammad Ali, the greatest heavyweight that ever lived and the greatest chin our sport has eve experienced. Foreman, Frazier and Liston were proven at the world level and a fighter like Shavers once turned Holmes inside out.

Other than Tyson, Lewis didn't face any world proven punchers, or anyone who consistently did the job.

Evander wasn't proven at the world level? Tua wasn't a power puncher? What a load of drivel you spout.

[Fury4daWIN]

Lewis had the better resume' against power punchers because there were just more power puncher in the 90's as opposed to the 60's/70's but the ones Ali faced (foreman/shavers/frazier) were better overall fighters/

That's more or less what I've been saying from the start. If you take every opponent both men ever faced and measure their best punch, the sum total would be significantly in Lennox's favour. Even take their ten best punchers and the outcome is probably the same. You have to get down to the top three or four before things start evening out, and with fighters like Tua and Morrison given free rein on the pads I'm not sure I'd want to pick a winner.

[Fury4daWIN]

Don't forget that Lamon Brewster said that the hardest puncher he ever met was Lionel Butler. Chalk another one up for Lennox.

[Fury4daWIN]

I'll replace Chuvalo with Quarry but Cooper and his left hook are solidified in boxing history. lol @ questioning Floyd Patterson being on the list. Golota was not a puncher and although the other two were hitters, Lewis was their only top opponent while they just stayed feasting on cans in Europe and GB.

Patterson was a puncher but Golota was not? At what weight class?

Anyhow, with Ali being in the lead it looks like most people don't agree with your theory that Lewis fought significantly harder and more punchers than Ali.

Make the post in general and see where you get.

[BKM-]

Patterson was a puncher but Golota was not? At what weight class?



Make the post in general and see where you get.

70% to 30% pal. Sounds like your certainty on it being some sort of common knowledge that Lewis has a better punchers resume was only in your head wasn't it?

The thread's been dying down but you're still bumping it from time to time refusing to acknowledge defeat. No need to be butthurt because most people disagree with you. Try to live with it.

[Japanese Boxing]

I'm going on PURE power, I think Lewis wins this pretty obviously. If we're talking skilled opposition with technique behind it then Ali wins. So Lewis on that alone.

[MrRolltide91]

Ali.........

[soul_survivor]

Evander wasn't proven at the world level? Tua wasn't a power puncher? What a load of drivel you spout.

Do you even know what this thread is about? In what world was Holyfield a power puncher?

And Tua was a world proven power puncher similar to Frazier, Foreman and Liston?

[Rustle Wilson]

Ali

And it's not even close