Lennox Lewis's power is very OVERRATED

[lennon]

I heard Lennox was born canadian and now is a jamaican. So I dunno why so many brits are so fond of him and consider him british.

Born in london england, he lived there until he was 12 years old before he moved to canada.

[bsrizpac]

Correct. The ommision in statements about Lewis's power (with the guy having ONLY a 78% KO ratio ) takes away from the fact that two of those points wins weren't even full distance fights. Conversely, it also takes away that a LOT of those KOs were against learning curve opposition.

But it takes away from the whole issue to look at it in terms of "clean kills", when it clearly wasn't always his style. If you want to draw conclusions through triangular logic (which doesn't really mean much, but if you do...) then compare his performances against mutual foes of Tyson. In nearly all cases, Lewis finished them quicker.

I don't get why many American fans still won't give Lewis his due as a top ten heavy (and fail to see the need for the "Brit" reference in the opening post...) The guy may not have ruled at an optimum time for competition (neither did Tyson or Holmes) and may not have faced the biggest names on his ledger at their peaks, but he was undisputed champ for a long time, and no one - when he was focussed - was capable of taking him off that at the time.

For the record anyone questioning lewis' power is insane. Lewis was a great fighter and a hard hitter. Probably one of the harder hitters in the last 20 years at least. I wont even get into his first round KOs or his pasting of Tyson or the upprecut he launched at VK because in my mind this is all obvious.

There is NO WAY his power is overrated and this thread is pointless/******.

[hollister]

this thread is pointless/******.

And yet you felt obligated to be a part of it....

[bsrizpac]

And yet you felt obligated to be a part of it....

Just felt the need to point out how f'n dumb it is to say that Lewis' power is overrated.

I guess Ali was slow of foot movement also.

[paul750]

This thread is silly, Lewis had tremendous power, Ask Ruddock, Rahman etc.

[Franko]

That's funny, because i don't remember Ali actually being in prison! The fact of the matter is when Lewis fought Tyson there was only one of the two who was anywhere close to his best. Had both fighters ever got the chance to face each at their best then i think Tyson would be the winner and that was the point i was trying to make. Tyson's career was stop start since his release from prison and anyone with an ounce of knowledge must've known that if Lewis got past round one then the fight with Tyson was as good as won.

I agree with it all except for the Tyson part. I've said it once and I will say it again. Everybody who loved Tyson thought that the second coming of Tyson was only second in place to the second coming of Clay/Ali. Tyson was knocking mother-****ers out in seconds, minutes of the first round...until he came across Evander...both times. Some people jumped off the bandwagon, but the true loyals stayed the course with their fighter, when all of a sudden, he gets to fight Lewis in 2002, gets dominated, then the excuses roll in led by the 'old, washed up version'...like I've said to all that noise...BULL****!!! True, he wasn't the Tyson of the '80s after he got out of prison, but Ali wasn't Clay after he got out of prison either.

[hollister]

That fight was like 18 years after Tyson turned pro, he was shot.
The only reason anyone gave him a shot at winning is because of his power, but moreso because they bought into the hype. And like I said, the KO was a push.

[dansweeney]

Lewis couldn't kayo oliver mccall when he was crying and had his ****ing hands down, he was bombing him and still coudln't faze him. this being in their 2nd fight. i know your all gonna say that mccall has never been kayoed, but he also never had his hands down and cried in any other fight either. he literally was not defending himself and lewis still couldn't check that chin. rebuttle please...

[Bozo_no no]

Lewis couldn't kayo oliver mccall when he was crying and had his ****ing hands down, he was bombing him and still coudln't faze him. this being in their 2nd fight. i know your all gonna say that mccall has never been kayoed, but he also never had his hands down and cried in any other fight either. he literally was not defending himself and lewis still couldn't check that chin. rebuttle please...

McCall was on drugs. He was arrested last year and it took 6 police officers to drop him.

He's never been knocked down.

Another terrible example trying to support a flawed non-point.

Lewis hit like a truck.

End of discussion.

[dansweeney]

McCall was on drugs. He was arrested last year and it took 6 police officers to drop him.

He's never been knocked down.

Another terrible example trying to support a flawed non-point.

Lewis hit like a truck.

End of discussion.

you mean he pounds you in the ass like a truck right? i already covered the fact he hasn't been dropped. try again. bozo no nothing