Who is the best Heavyweight of the past 30 years?

[Las Vegas,]

Vitali wanted to fight, everyone wanted to fight, wasnt that bad of a cut, Vitali was up 4 rounds to 2. Lewis never beat Vitali, he got a gift from the ref. Why did he duck the rematch after he said he would give a rematch like a man? Why did he duck him and retire if he won the fight? He always got a rematch when he lost, why didnt he give the same curtosy? Even today Steward talks about how he was mad with Lewis for not being a man and giving a rematch.


Thats why people need to speak the truth. Theres clowns in here who are saying Marciano would own the HW division if he was alive today, when he fought bums and drunks his entire career.

Hahahaha. I agree. Also I never said Vitali was a bum. Vitali is a great fighter. At the same time I disagree with you that the cut "wasn't bad". That cut was plain horrid. It would of been stopped eventually. It was bad. I do agree that Lewis didn't wanna fight Vitali again. He wanted to retire, and I don't blame him. He looked like **** in the Vitali fight.

[bojangles1987]

He avenged both of those loses, and yes I've seen the fight. Sure Bowe won the first round, but Lewis has always been a slow starter. After that Lewis destroyed him. Like I said, there's a reason why Bowe was ducking Lewis. He knew once Lewis stepped it up, that was a wrap.

Also, BTW Ruben. Name Holmes's best win.

Ken Norton. Arguably a better fighter than anyone Lewis ever fought.

[hweightblogger]

The thread started makes again the typical mistakes:

How do you define "best"?

Head2Head?
Prime4Prime?
Record4Record?
Pound4Pound?

And how can you include boxers who are still boxing? That's unfair.

[bojangles1987]

The thread started makes again the typical mistakes:

How do you define "best"?

Head2Head?
Prime4Prime?
Record4Record?
Pound4Pound?

And how can you include boxers who are still boxing? That's unfair.

What they accomplished within their era defines best when comparing multiple eras, IMO. It's the only fair way to do it. That means who they fought, how they won, whether they reigned for a long time, and obviously how good a fighter they were based on the eye test.

[Las Vegas,]

Ken Norton. Arguably a better fighter than anyone Lewis ever fought.

Did I ask you? I asked Ruben. Just great, now Ruben is gonna say an ignorant response. Thanks for ruining the fun.

[Cotto's Father]

Lennox Lewis

[BattlingNelson]

I tried clicking on the poll to see who voted for who, and where the threadtitle is it links to an old John Scully thread wtf.

Looks like some kind of glitch.

[D4thincarnation]

I tried clicking on the poll to see who voted for who, and where the threadtitle is it links to an old John Scully thread wtf.

Looks like some kind of glitch.

A similar thing happened when I voted

[Joeyzagz]

He got knocked out by 2 sub-par fighters.

It doesn't matter if he fought everybody, his best win is a past-it Holyfield.

You are crying over Lennox's 2 losses(which he avenged) while Holyfield has 10 losses and was loaded up on steroids half the time.

As for Holmes, he fought in Don Kings disneyland for 5 years in one of the softest Heavyweight eras of all time. Ali had fckng parkinsons for Christ's sake! I give credit to Holmes for taking care of business but his resume' doesnt stand up to Lennox.

[Sage84]

LOL @ Freedom being the only person to vote for Wlad. Doesnt this tell you something mate?