Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: Broner, Holyfield, Rigondeaux, More

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The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen 'Breadman' Edwards discussing the trilogy between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley, discussing former four division world champion Adrien Broner, thoughts on former world champion Evander Holyfield and more.
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[rrayvez]

Good response regarding Lewis vs holyfield. People forget how well holyfield fought in that 2nd fight because of how badly Lewis was robbed in the first fight.

[Kilrain]

Yeah, Holy fought a good rematch but he still lost clearly to my eyes. I had it 7-4 with 1 even to Lewis, but I actually liked Lennox's performance more in the rematch than in the first fight, because he engaged more (he had to because Holy was more offensive and confident), he threw more body shots and generally it was just a much better fight. Rounds 7, 8 and 9 were excellent, great fighting in the trenches, this was an undervalued aspect of Lewis' arsenal, he really could rumble when he had to, same thing happened in the Ray Mercer fight. Then the 10th round Lewis completely outboxed Holyfield, also landed some terrific uppercuts and he closed out the fight like a champion, I had him winning 10 and 11, and then Holyfield shading the 12th.

Anyway, as to who is p4p better, I struggle with this one, it's really tough...Holyfield had some poor performances even in his prime years, I didn't rate Moorer all that high and Holy had a really bad performance against him in the first fight, losing it, he also never set the world alight in his fights with Holmes and Foreman, who were old and he really should have dominated them more, even though they were a lot bigger than him. Evander also obviously got beaten down and stopped by Bowe in the third fight, which you can possibly attribute more to his medical problems at the time (he had some heart issues and many thought he was going to have to quit the sport). But of course, Lewis got knocked out twice... It's a tough one... It's hard to split them as to who was greater overall. Holyfield did have wins over Bowe and Moorer, which I think is similar to Lewis in that Lewis also avenged his 2 early defeats.