Lennox Lewis not a HW Top 10 ATG?

[TheGreatA]

i agree. whats your list?

I don't have an official one right now. I'll have to think about it.

[Benny Leonard]

Good list, not sure if I would call Tyson just hype but it's true his accomplishments are not comparable with the best heavyweights of all time.

I guess you could make a case for guys like Tunney, Norton, Baer, Charles, Patterson, maybe even Quarry, Walcott, Lyle and Bowe to be ranked ahead of Tyson or if we go even further Sullivan, Langford, Wills and J. Jeffries.

I'm not too sure if I would rank any of those ahead of him though.
Tyson is somewhere there in the top 15. His spot depending on how you like to rank fighters.

First, do you have all of those fighters beating Tyson or just ahead of him based on their HEAVYWEIGHT resume...And that is HEAVYWEIGHT resume.


We can break it down if you like...you can start.

[TheGreatA]

First, do you have all of those fighters beating Tyson or just ahead of him based on their HEAVYWEIGHT resume...And that is HEAVYWEIGHT resume.


We can break it down if you like...you can start.

No, but I was just listing some heavyweight names to think about.
I'm not sure if any of those guys could be ranked ahead of Tyson.

But someone like Baer does remind me of Tyson, he became the world champion easily and was thought to be unbeatable... until he was beaten by a boxer who was thought of as a bum, Jim Braddock.
After that he was still in the heavyweight title picture but never fulfilled his potential because he was lazy.

[Benny Leonard]

No, but I was just listing some heavyweight names to think about.
I'm not sure if any of those guys could be ranked ahead of Tyson.

But someone like Baer does remind me of Tyson, he became the world champion easily and was thought to be unbeatable... until he was beaten by a boxer who was thought of as a bum, Jim Braddock.
After that he was still in the heavyweight title picture but never fulfilled his potential because he was lazy.

They say Maxy like to have to much


Max

One day, boxer Max Baer called Mae West from the street outside her apartment in Los Angeles. West invited him to come up and see her sometime - sometime soon. Sure enough, the couple ended up in bed.
When they had finished, Baer rose and went to the window. Then, pulling up the shade, he began to wave - standing, still completely naked - to someone down in the street.

It was Baer's agent - who had just lost a $500 bet that Baer could bed West on the spot.
[This was one of West's favorite stories. Among her classic lines? "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted," "I've been on more laps than a table napkin," and "I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time, please."]

[Trivia: Famed designer Edith Head once put paid to rumors about West's sexuality. "No hermaphrodite," she explained, "could have bosoms... like two large melons."]


West, Mae (1892-1980) American sex symbol and actress [noted for such classic lines as "Come up and see me some time" and "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"; for her roles in such films as She Done Him Wrong (1933), Klondyke Annie (1936), and My Little Chickadee (1939); and for her autobiography, Goodness Has Nothing to Do with It]

[Sources: Carol Amende, If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say... Come Sit Next to Me]

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[Hitman932]

lennox lewis quote from pavlik/taylor

"kelly pavlik is a tuff koo-key from younstown"

[SkillspayBills]

Without question he is a top ten HW and you could make more than a case for top 5. Those uppercuts are VICIOUS.