Lennox Lewis never stayed down

[sugarray]

For a guy with a 'glass' chin, Lennox Lewis never dodged the big punchers.

Even after the McCall loss, he came straight back against Lionel Butler - grossly out of shape, but had serious power - and then went on to brutalize KO artist Tommy Morrison a couple of fights later.

I think it's amazing how, after his KO losses, he was never particularly gunshy (a la Roy Jones jr) and came back fighting guys who, if they landed, could have taken his head off.

He obviously became a bit more cautious after getting dropped but, when under attack, usually met fire with fire - watch the opening rounds of the Tua and Tyson fights - and, in fact, was often far more aggressive against dangerous, hard hitting opponents.

Lennox Lewis never doubted his ability, he went down a couple of times but simply dusted himself off and came back stronger. Look at what being knocked out did to Wladimir Klitscko, the guy is terrified everytime he steps into the ring. Not Lewis.

The way Lennox Lewis was able to come back from defeats was remarkable, and one of the biggest factors of his greatness. Its a shame he never got much credit for it at the time.

[Zn1]

For a guy with a 'glass' chin, Lennox Lewis never dodged the big punchers.

Even after the McCall loss, he came straight back against Lionel Butler - grossly out of shape, but had serious power - and then went on to brutalize KO artist Tommy Morrison a couple of fights later.

I think it's amazing how, after his KO losses, he was never particularly gunshy (a la Roy Jones jr) and came back fighting guys who, if they landed, could have taken his head off.

He obviously became a bit more cautious after getting dropped but, when under attack, usually met fire with fire - watch the opening rounds of the Tua and Tyson fights - and, in fact, was often far more aggressive against dangerous, hard hitting opponents.

Lennox Lewis never doubted his ability, he went down a couple of times but simply dusted himself off and came back stronger. Look at what being knocked out did to Wladimir Klitscko, the guy is terrified everytime he steps into the ring. Not Lewis.

The way Lennox Lewis was able to come back from defeats was remarkable, and one of the biggest factors of his greatness. Its a shame he never got much credit for it at the time.

he got tons of credit, and tons of stick.

it wasnt a one sided barrage of abuse aimed at lennox.

definately the greatest british heavyweight of all time

[MickyHatton]

He still doesn't get credit especially on here.

Your right though, Lewis never ducked anyone and always avenged his defeats, the problem with Lewis was that he didn't take some fighters seriously enough and on those occasions he got caught, when he 'knew' a fighter was dangerous (Ruddock, Golota, Tyson, Holyfield) he then up'd his game and beat the best around the division at that time!

[RAESAAD]

I agree....Lennox is one of my alltime favorite fighters and not many guys can say the avenged every loss they ever had.....he has been beaten by nobody whom he has not beaten also after the fact.Lennox Lewis= Top 15 all time HW IMO.

[theironone]

i think he was gunshy after mccall, he looked petrified in their re-match until mccall went crazy

[jack_the_rippuh]

He was gunshy against Michael Gerard Tyson..

[Imira]

he got tons of credit, and tons of stick.

it wasnt a one sided barrage of abuse aimed at lennox.

definately the greatest british heavyweight of all time

I'll go one further and say that, since Holmes, Lewis is the last real legendary fighter that we've seen in the ring.

[scap]

For a guy with a 'glass' chin, Lennox Lewis never dodged the big punchers.

Even after the McCall loss, he came straight back against Lionel Butler - grossly out of shape, but had serious power - and then went on to brutalize KO artist Tommy Morrison a couple of fights later.

I think it's amazing how, after his KO losses, he was never particularly gunshy (a la Roy Jones jr) and came back fighting guys who, if they landed, could have taken his head off.

He obviously became a bit more cautious after getting dropped but, when under attack, usually met fire with fire - watch the opening rounds of the Tua and Tyson fights - and, in fact, was often far more aggressive against dangerous, hard hitting opponents.

Lennox Lewis never doubted his ability, he went down a couple of times but simply dusted himself off and came back stronger. Look at what being knocked out did to Wladimir Klitscko, the guy is terrified everytime he steps into the ring. Not Lewis.

The way Lennox Lewis was able to come back from defeats was remarkable, and one of the biggest factors of his greatness. Its a shame he never got much credit for it at the time.

Lennox is a great HW there is no doubt (we can argue how great later) but...

You say he was never particularly gunshy, the guy always fought overly cautious, the only way you got an aggressive Lewis is if you attacked him-ala Michael Grant.

Lewis fought scared against guys like Zelko Mavervick for christ sakes, like someone mentioned earlier he was petrified of McCall in the remtach and you also sited Tua as a fight where Lewis met fire with fire? What?

Lewis was scared to death of Tua and kept his distance, if you want to see soemone (the only one) who met fire with fire in regards to David Tua that would be Ike Ibeabuchi.

The title of your thread is true though-he was decked by McCall and probably should have been given an opportunity to continue and even though he was out against Rock the son of ***** did find a way to get up.

Please dont get me started on Lennox, we can talk about how great his right hands was, we can talk about his telelphone pole jab, we can talk about his ring smarts etc. but please lets not start getting crazy and say things like LL wasnt gunshy in the ring-there is a reason why it took 9 rounds to take out Tyson AKA as Manny Steward put it "you have a mother****ing dead man in front of you"....that reason you ask? He was gunshy!

[Zviad]

For a guy with a 'glass' chin, Lennox Lewis never dodged the big punchers.

Lennox was a great fighter and the greatest British heavyweight.His shameful losses to McCall and Rahman can be disregarded.

[MickyHatton]

He was gunshy against Michael Gerard Tyson..

Was that before he knocked him out then?