Comments Thread For: Lennox Lewis Says WWE Did Make Offer For Brock Lesnar

[Sugar Adam Ali]

No. Floyd turned down Margarito to go fight Oscar de la Hoya instead.

No, he turned down margarito to fight baldomir instead...

[Scott9945]

Good for Lennox Lewis. The WWE needed Lennox a lot more than he needed them. Though I do wonder what would McMahon have done had Lennox knocked out Lesnar with the first punch he threw.

Do you remember Butterbean vs Bart Gunn? Classic one punch KO. Always great to watch on YouTube.

[Mr.Daddy]

lesnar is one of the best legit college wrestlers ever.. if he wasn't knocked out cold by 1 punch lennox would leave with a few broken limbs

Dream on. According to Emanuel Steward, Lennox Lewis was the baddest of the bad running the streets growing up (he could and did fight unscripted as necessary). Plus, if you ever saw Lesnar's' inability to deal with MMA punching power - let alone Lennox Lewis' punching power (it is well known that Lesnar had a real fear of being hit by somebody who could hurt him), you'd know that Lennox Lewis drops and stops Brock Lesnar any time that he hits him. If you think that Brock was so good (rather than just being overpowering as a collegiate wrestler) find his match against Steve Neal (Lesnar's junior year). Neal basically used wrestling to negate Lesnar's strength. Prime to prime, Lewis beats Lesnar - and any other time as well. One other thing; check out what Cain's punching power did to Lesnar. Cain isn't exactly know for one punch power, but he had Lesnar fearing for his life - it was painful to watch - any and all secrets about Lesnar getting punched and absorbing punishment were revealed by the end of that match.

[ShoulderRoll]

No, he turned down margarito to fight baldomir instead...

Margarito was being offered to Floyd both pre- and post-Baldomir.

In any case Floyd got paid more than 8 million for Baldomir and picked up the lineal welterweight title in the process. Hard to argue that Margarito was a better option.

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Dream on. According to Emanuel Steward, Lennox Lewis was the baddest of the bad running the streets growing up (he could and did fight unscripted as necessary). Plus, if you ever saw Lesnar's' inability to deal with MMA punching power - let alone Lennox Lewis' punching power (it is all known that Lesnar had a real fear of being hit by somebody who could hurt him), you'd know that Lennox Lewis drops and stops Brock Lesnar any time that he hits him. If you think that Brock was so good (rather than just being overpowering as a collegiate wrestler) find his match against Steve Neal (Lesnar's junior year). Neal basically used wrestling to negate Lesnar's strength. Prime to prime, Lewis beats Lesnar - and any other time as well.

it would be a good fight, never said lennox wouldnt KO him. Brock's punch resistance in the UFC was zero when he came back from surgery but he was a machine before that.

I tend to give the advantage to a wrestler over a boxer in any "no rules" fight, just from personal observation

and i've never wrestled in my life so im not feeding my own ego

A pure boxer has one chance to KO a wrestler... One chance. If he blows that he's on his back begging for his life. It's boring to watch but still the most effective style of fighting.

[Earl-Hickey]

lesnar is one of the best legit college wrestlers ever.. if he wasn't knocked out cold by 1 punch lennox would leave with a few broken limbs

He would have been, even in ufc he couldn't handle opponents who were good strikers

[KnockoutNed]

I'm sure Lennox is terrified of this guy.

[Rip Chudd]

Didn't Floyd turn down 8 million to face Margarito back when he was making a million

If I'm not mistaken Floyd wanted 8 million to fight him but Arum said no. Floyd went on to fight Baldomir on PPV and made 8 mil

[alexKO]

Dream on. According to Emanuel Steward, Lennox Lewis was the baddest of the bad running the streets growing up (he could and did fight unscripted as necessary). Plus, if you ever saw Lesnar's' inability to deal with MMA punching power - let alone Lennox Lewis' punching power (it is well known that Lesnar had a real fear of being hit by somebody who could hurt him), you'd know that Lennox Lewis drops and stops Brock Lesnar any time that he hits him. If you think that Brock was so good (rather than just being overpowering as a collegiate wrestler) find his match against Steve Neal (Lesnar's junior year). Neal basically used wrestling to negate Lesnar's strength. Prime to prime, Lewis beats Lesnar - and any other time as well. One other thing; check out what Cain's punching power did to Lesnar. Cain isn't exactly know for one punch power, but he had Lesnar fearing for his life - it was painful to watch - any and all secrets about Lesnar getting punched and absorbing punishment were revealed by the end of that match.

Are you actually saying a boxer with no martial arts background would beat any UFC heavyweight champion in his prime? In MMA?! The moment the MMA fighter gets a hold of a limb, it's over.

Truly delusional - as always, the boxer wins in the boxing ring, the MMA fighter wins in the octagon.

[Mr.Daddy]

lesnar is one of the best legit college wrestlers ever.. if he wasn't knocked out cold by 1 punch lennox would leave with a few broken limbs

Wrong. Lesnar was not one of the best legit college wrestlers ever. Stephen Neal and Wes Hand both defeated Lesnar in his two year Division I career at MN. Watch the video of Neal vs Lesnar and you'll see what I mean. For sure, Lesnar was no Curly Culp. Lesnar was an absolute pansy - a sissy's sissy - when being punched effectively in his last two MMA matches.