Comments Thread For: Lennox Lewis: Fury More Difficult To Beat Than Wilder, Joshua

[Oshio]

Some people like to make themselves relevant sha

[apollocreed]

Stop bragging about golden era Lennox, you never fought Bowe and your belt was given to you so stop talking like you are better than current champions or Fury.

Lewis beat everyone in his era you cretin, apart from Bowe who Lewis wanted to fight, but Bowe dumped the WBC belt in the bin instead of facing his mandatory because he knew he'd lose.
Lewis rematched both guys that beat him and beat every opponent he faced. And don't try and say he waited for Tyson to get old. He wanted to fight Tyson before he went to prison in '92, then Tyson avoided him after he came out in '95. Same story as Bowe, he knew he's get his ass kicked.

[Liondw]

Lewis would beat today's top three heavyweights in one night. As for the history with Bowe, I like Rid****, but he avoided Lennox.

[Removed Now]

Lennox is not even top ten heavyweight in my book. I respect Holmes way more than him.

[j0zef]

Disagree. Current Fury is a shadow of his former self and not even in the discussion. Fury in his prime is questionable. He's getting highly overrated in this forum. He has one great win, and that's Wlad. And in my book, that was not the best version of Wlad. He was so used to taking on mandatory challengers and cruising to decisions that he lost his fire.

There is a multitude of proof of this. Watch his fight with Jennings right before - he looked absolutely awful. Watch his fight vs. Fury, there's a part where he turns his back on Fury, and expects the ref to break them up, that he slowly and absentmindedly starts turning around without looking, only to get hit in the face by Fury. Watch even the end of the fight, he raised his arms automatically thinking he won, even though pretty much everyone thought he was nowhere close. His trainer begged him for rounds and rounds to throw a damn punch. A large part of that was Fury's movement, but a part of it was Wlad's mentality not being in it.

Compare that fight vs. the way he fought Joshua. He was active, he was engaged, he moved well, he threw a ton of shots. Multiple respected writers called that possibly his greatest performance despite the age.

Long story short - Fury has one great win over a fighter he was perfectly matched up against, who was not arguably not there mentally. Outside of this win, Fury's resume is virtually non existent. He beat Chisora, who was an easy stylistic matchup for him, and got knocked down by Cunningham, who was 40+ lbs smaller. Tyson Fury is entering this mythical territory that people automatically assume he's the best and unbeatable, similar to Rigondeux. Rigo also had one great win, and nothing else outside of that.

Even on his best day, I'd put Fury as an underdog to both Wilder and Joshua. Yeah, there's a possibility he dances around them for 12 rounds and wins. But I wouldn't bet on it.

[markther]

Only because Tyson runs against power punchers and disguises it as boxing.

[The D3vil]

Stop bragging about golden era Lennox, you never fought Bowe and your belt was given to you so stop talking like you are better than current champions or Fury.

[iamboxing]

I don't think Wilder will allow Fury to stall, stop, restart, he'll realise early on Fury is coasting and go at him guns blazing. Unlike Wlad, he's just as unpredictable as Fury and will be looking to take his head off from round 1. He has a better chance of beating AJ imho.