Larry Merchant: Lennox Lewis Is The Best Heavyweight To Emerge Since His Reign Began

[yoz]

Unquestionably.

As far as I'm concerned he's the best HW of all time, especially if you're talking about head-to-head.

This ^^^^^^^^^^.

[Elroy1]

He could be right, but Merchant is always one of those "the grass was greener back then" kind of guys. Grumpy old guy who never gives due credit to current fighters. I don't like that, and always found him insufferable to listen to on HBO.

You don't know Larry Merchant.

He was definitely NOT one of those guys.

Larry Merchant understood "modern era" from "pre-professional era", he explicitly understood weight as an advantage in boxing, even fat weight, and most importantly he respected the value of a hard punch!

[Elroy1]

Lennox would have dominated the cotton candy era of the last decade that's for sure. Titlists like Wlad, Haye and Peters wouldn't have lasted 5 rounds.

Whether he could actually have beaten Lennox or not is hotly debatable, but W.Klitschko has a substantially better resume than Lennox Lewis and would be a slight favourite in H2H...

Peter and Haye would also have been 2 of the best opponents that Lewis ever faced. (Peter>Tua, Haye>Grant for example)

Peter would have been hard for Lennox to stop, he'd most likely survive.

It's unlikely Haye would allow Lewis to stop him and it's not even certain that Lewis would even win against Haye either.

The Lewis and Wlad eras are basically comparable in quality with the Wlad era being possibly slightly better in actuality if we want to split hairs!

[Mr. Philadel]

the old man is right....Lewis murks all the big boys of today....quite easily imo

[VG_Addict]

I think HWs have gotten even bigger since Lewis.

Joseph Parker weighed 235.4 lbs against Meehan, and Anthony Joshua weighed 249 lbs against Cornish.

[SeekDaGreat]

That chin wouldn't hold up in the golden era but he's definitely one of the most talented.

[Zaroku]

Tales from the crypt!

Larry, there is a brave new world, & your opinion is diluted by the free thinkers globally... Be happy that your voice was ever heard. Now there is a tsunami of voices globally, to define & discuss boxing.. RIP boxing commentators!!

[Cutthroat]

Whether he could actually have beaten Lennox or not is hotly debatable, but W.Klitschko has a substantially better resume than Lennox Lewis and would be a slight favourite in H2H...

Peter and Haye would also have been 2 of the best opponents that Lewis ever faced. (Peter>Tua, Haye>Grant for example)

Peter would have been hard for Lennox to stop, he'd most likely survive.

It's unlikely Haye would allow Lewis to stop him and it's not even certain that Lewis would even win against Haye either.

The Lewis and Wlad eras are basically comparable in quality with the Wlad era being possibly slightly better in actuality if we want to split hairs!

Wlad has no idea how to fight on the inside, he'd get mauled by Lewis, this is not debatable lmao. You're talking about one of the greatest inside fighting HW's of all time, vs a guy that doesn't even throw body shots.

Haye sucks against taller fighters, he struggled badly with Valuev a guy that should've lost to Holyfield lol. All he can do is throw his overhand right against taller fighters, it's predictable.

Peter should've lost to James Toney a year later after his fight with Wlad, he needed a robbery, then he went life and death with McCline getting dropped a bunch of times. C'mon son, you're reaching.

Lewis by KO.

[KnockoutNed]

W.Klitschko has a substantially better resume than Lennox Lewis and would be a slight favourite in H2H...

Peter and Haye would also have been 2 of the best opponents that Lewis ever faced.

The Lewis and Wlad eras are basically comparable in quality with the Wlad era being possibly slightly better in actuality if we want to split hairs!

Only in your wildest kliturd fantasies

[kiDynamite92]

Wow Larry Merchent you just blew my mind! No ****ing way would I have thought that, that's the type of stuff you need decades to think about an analyse to reach a conclusion like that. I mean it's not like it's plain f**king obvious right?