Comments Thread For: Lennox Lewis Breaks Down Mayweather vs. Pacquiao

[Kilrain]

LOL at Lewis thinking him fighting Wlad is more lucrative than Mayweather-Pacquiao.

[koolbreez12]

Did he really jus say a return from retirement fight with Klit would make more money than Mayweather/Pac?? Please tell me I read that wrong.

[Kilrain]

Actually Lewis didn't really beat up mcall in the rematch. If you recall mcall had some sort of drug induced psychosis right in the middle of the fight and refused to fight. He would drop his guard and pace around the ring and when Lewis went to punch him mcall would tie him up. He wasn't even defending himself and Lewis still couldn't hurt him lol that was the funniest fight ever.

With that being said, I believe Lewis was a pretty good champion. He beat an old washed up holyfield and old washed up tyson which were basically his two best wins. To give him credit, bowe, holyfield and Tyson were seen as ducking him in their primes. Who knows if Lewis could have beaten a prime Tyson. If he got koed by Rahman and mcall, surely prime Tyson had a good shot.

The one bad thing I can say about him is that he was thoroughly getting his ass kicked by vitali klitschko 4/6 rounds before the doctor erroneously and prematurely stopped the fight because of a cut on vitalis eye that wasn't even affecting his vision. Vitali pleaded to let the fight continue and they should have. Lewis told vitali in the ring he would get a rematch but subsequently retired rather than to lose which was basically a guarantee. That is not the sign of a true all time great. Manny pacquiao gave Marquez 3 rematches, and since Marquez beat him now he wont give pacquiao a rematch. Same kind of scenario, they both ran scared.

To be fair, that was one of the worst eye injuries I've seen in boxing. Vitali could have sustained permanent damage if the fight had continued. Whether he wanted to continue or not is irrelevant.

[Easy Work.]

...one of the biggest hype jobs ever. People criticize Klitchko. A prime Evander and Tyson would have destroyed this guy.

youre acting like lewis was in his prime vs holyfield and tyson...dont forget he was getting kind of old too then....he used to beat tyson up in sparring in the 80's too lol...lennox better

[sonnyboyx2]

Lewis promised the entire boxing world, He would fight Vitali in a rematch. Lewis was guaranteed a then highest payday in boxing history a staggering $40 million. But Lewis had no intention of ever facing Vitali in a rematch, He ran off into retirement stripped of all three belts for refusing to fight the No1 contenders. Lewis was asked to "break down Floyd vs Pacquiao fight".. He talked for 20 seconds about it, then started talking about himself LOL... Lewis the most overrated fighter in history, he was not much better than Frank Bruno.

[SUBZER0ED]

Ahh shut up. .. all you dichead pac-tards are just mad because yet again another boxing professional picked Mayweather. Every time someone picks Mayweather you tards attack them as if you dumbfcks know better.

Lmao wow nobody had even criticized his assessment before you made that outlandish statement. That being said, many people say its close to being a 50/50 fight, and mayweather might have a slight edge. Only a handful of people believe it will be mayweather for sure. Brandon Rios and algieri ironically think mayweather will win hands down. De la Hoya said its pretty much 50/50.

Many are picking pacquiao to win however. Shawn porter, Roberto Duran, nacho baristain, Leon Spinks, mike Tyson, Marvin hagler, and many others believe pacquiao will win. Public opinion polls are pretty much divided. I think its amazing how many American believe pacquiao would win. Go ask 100 people in the phillipines who they think would win. I guarantee 99 of them would say pacquiao.

My point is who cares what one persons opinion is? Doesn't mean anything because nobody knows until they step in the ring may 2nd, as long as mayweather doesn't pull out with a bogus injury which I believe might happen. I believe hes still scared but hopefully he proves his doubters wrong and we get to see pacquiao beat up on mayweather may 2nd which I whole heartedly believe for reasons I've said over and over again on here.

Your comment was totally pointless though considering nobody even criticized Lewis. So basically you just spewed a hate filled comment for no reason

Come on now, be fair. There were a few criticisms of Lewis. If he had said he believes Pacquiao will win, those people probably wouldn't have dogged him.

[HanzGruber]

Where's beercules

[PRBOXINGCOTTO]

lewis knows he would come out of retirement for the money just to get his ass handed to him

[twosweethooks]

Lewis said Jr has natural ability with rhythm but questions his heart.

I have QUESTIONED JR's HEART for a long time now.

No game fighter would blatantly duck other fighters.

I watched Showtime last evening the Canelo Jr fight. Jr was happy, all the Canelo Kid did was stand still and Jr peppered him with that smirk of his. hahahahaha He was Frankenstein, didn't move his head at the right time, kept throwing crazy shots, and it made JR look great.

In the beginning, JR was SUPER NERVOUS and old daddy May told him to calm down.

Pac is proven GAME, Lewis is saying the same thing in other words

IS JR GAME? The Ring is where that will be answered. HIS UNCLE ROG was not game, just a rough cur with a big punch. He QUIT on his stool

[FloydvsPac]

Lennox is a great boxer, but his legacy is tarnished in my mind. Not only did he have all the physical advantages in his division (like the Klitschkos), but when he fought Vitali and won by controversy, he retired instead of giving him a well-deserved rematch. Also, what always bugged me about him was that, to this day, he boasts that his best career win was against an old, out of shape Mike Tyson! Lennox was older than Mike, but c'mon...he had all the physical advantages and boxers age better in the ring than smaller brawlers. Lennox peaked in his early to mid-30s, whereas Mike peaked in his early 20s. It was no contest and you consider that your best win?

Lennox is a nice guy though. But, he's not a fan favorite to me.