Who is the classier representative of the sport - Lennox Lewis or Wladimir Klitschko

[LacedUp]

The dude ain't winning a bodybuilding comp if that's what you mean, but you can see the outline of his transverse abs just appearing. That's not fat. It's neither lean or fat. This sort of exaggeration is akin to the exaggeration of modern hw's fat levels.

As for resume comparisons..

WK and LL and VK all of them have very comparable resumes. There can be holes punched in either of them, but they all represent the best real hw records of all time.

Since WK's has been assaulted, another point that Freedom didn't mention is that Lewis had a few close calls and struggles with his win opponents like Mercer who nearly beat him and Mavrovic who done well, Holy held his own etc. and KD's from Briggs and Bruno, opponents he should have massacred.

But with WK we see almost complete dominance.

With KO losses, they are even compared to number of fights, LL's 2 were complete spark outs. WK's, one wasn't even legit, 1 included a headbutt and the other was a gas at a time when he'd never fought that long against aveteran when he was a bit green.

As for opponent quality, they are entirely comparable. Some of WK's opponents were better than what Lennox had.

Sure Holyfield and Tyson were probably above the level of WK's good opponents but NOT at the time that Lenny fought them.

Please note, I can also make a case for Lennox too, I think their records are comparable, I just can't see how anybody can seriously say that WK's resume doesn't cut the mustard compared to Lennox's because that simply is not true!

You do know Lewis wasn't knocked down vs either Bruno or Briggs right?

Someone clearly didn't watch the fights.

[Elroy1]

Wasn't he? It has been a really long time since I seen them but I do distinctly remember him being in some dire trouble at some points in those fights, whether it was a KD or not you have me thinking now :s

[LacedUp]

Wasn't he? It has been a really long time since I seen them but I do distinctly remember him being in some dire trouble at some points in those fights, whether it was a KD or not you have me thinking now :s

no he wasn't. And he handled that Mavrovic or whatever his name was with ease. Won every round.

Once again, your agenda has been exposed.

[Elroy1]

no he wasn't. And he handled that Mavrovic or whatever his name was with ease. Won every round.

Once again, your agenda has been exposed.

Yet when WK handles an opponent that is even better than Mavrovic with even more ease, the opponent is considered a bum...

If an opponent beats Klitschko, the opponent is still a bum and WK is an even bigger bum.

If WK beats an opponent, that opponent is a bum and WK gets no credit because he beat a bum.

That's your logic, how can it be that way? Obviously something is wrong with it.

I am not claiming that WK's opponents are BETTER than LL's on the whole or that LL fought rubbish.

On the contrary, I think LL fought arguably the best competition of any HW boxer, AND dominated them.

But I find the opposition and dominance of WK entirely comparable.

[LacedUp]

Yet when WK handles an opponent that is even better than Mavrovic with even more ease, the opponent is considered a bum...

If an opponent beats Klitschko, the opponent is still a bum and WK is an even bigger bum.

If WK beats an opponent, that opponent is a bum and WK gets no credit because he beat a bum.

That's your logic, how can it be that way? Obviously something is wrong with it.

I am not claiming that WK's opponents are BETTER than LL's on the whole or that LL fought rubbish.

On the contrary, I think LL fought arguably the best competition of any HW boxer, AND dominated them.

But I find the opposition and dominance of WK entirely comparable.

Mavrovic was a bum! I'd never heard of him when Lewis fought him. but he was one of the the only ones. But looking over his record, it's still better than Pianetas Klitschko fights unknown guys more often than not ffs. And you big them up to be superior to others because they are undefeated or heavy, which is just laughable.

The opposition of Wlad is not comparable to that of Lennox at all. When Lennox chose voluntaries, it was Grant, Golota, Tyson etc - people with great notoriety. Wlad chooses Wach, Pianeta and Mormeck.

It's insane to think you would even defend that.

And you don't have to make up knockdowns or struggles just to get your point across.

[Elroy1]

Those were some of WK's worst opponents.

An unbeaten, experienced Wach, juicing who outweighed and outtalled him.
A 240lb Pianeta, ripped, experienced and unbeaten.
A 217lb ripped, highly athletic, world champion at CW Mormeck

If they are not comparable to the "lesser" opponents of LL then idk.

[VG_Addict]

Lewis is better than Vitali.

[LacedUp]

Those were some of WK's worst opponents.

An unbeaten, experienced Wach, juicing who outweighed and outtalled him.
A 240lb Pianeta, ripped, experienced and unbeaten.
A 217lb ripped, highly athletic, world champion at CW Mormeck

If they are not comparable to the "lesser" opponents of LL then idk.

Wtf are you talking about? Are you actually serious with this bs?

How was Wach experienced? The guy's most noticable win is Kevin McBride who is only noticable because he beat a shot to shyt version of Tyson. The guy is the definition of a shyt fighter.

Pianeta, the guy who had fought 40+ year old Oliver McCall to get a shot at the title?

And don't even get me started about Mormeck. the guy hadn't fought in two years and hadn't even fought anybody of note at heavyweight!

I can't believe you actually tried to build those three pieces of shyt fighters up. Neither of them had any championship level experience at all, or were even ranked in the top 20 of the world ffs!

Unbelievable. Lewis would have never fought that kind of level of opponent, he'd be embarrassed.

[Stuntman Mike]

Elroy sucks donkey scroat

[LacedUp]

Elroy sucks donkey scroat

He obviously doesn't know boxing that's for sure. He likes to lie his way to a defense of Wlad.