Lennox Lewis's power is very OVERRATED

[Franko]

I've never believed that too much emphasis should be put on Lewis's victory over Tyson as everyone knows that it was a washed up Tyson despite the age similarities. The fact that Tyson was later beaten by Williams and McBride takes a little bit of gloss off Lewis's achievement IMO (Clifford Etienne doesn't merit serious consideration). However, Lewis is a great, and i'd love to see the fella who started this thread stand face to face with him and tell him that his power was overrated! Ruddock had a good chin (emphasised by his 2 bouts with Tyson) and Lewis knocked him clean out. Praise should also be given for his knockouts over Galota, Botha, Rahman, and Grant etc, and although we now know Grant as a limited fighter, at the time he fought Lewis many people believed that he had the credentials to beat Lewis, which of course, Lewis put paid to. Lewis deserves credit, and is one of the greats.

Lewis KO'd TYSON (every AMERICANS) idol

enough said

[paul750]

Size has nothing to do with it, it's speed times the mass, LEWIS HIT HARD PERIOD. Look at guys like McCline, he's big and he has no concussive power. Lewis' right hand was one of the best in the business. people who say this stuff are probably just Lewis haters.

[JDizzle79]

I've never believed that too much emphasis should be put on Lewis's victory over Tyson as everyone knows that it was a washed up Tyson despite the age similarities. The fact that Tyson was later beaten by Williams and McBride takes a little bit of gloss off Lewis's achievement IMO (Clifford Etienne doesn't merit serious consideration). However, Lewis is a great, and i'd love to see the fella who started this thread stand face to face with him and tell him that his power was overrated! Ruddock had a good chin (emphasised by his 2 bouts with Tyson) and Lewis knocked him clean out. Praise should also be given for his knockouts over Galota, Botha, Rahman, and Grant etc, and although we now know Grant as a limited fighter, at the time he fought Lewis many people belived that he had the credentials to beat Lewis, which of course, Lewis put paid to. Lewis deserves credit, and is one of the greats.

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.

[deliveryman]

I don't know why English people pop a woody every time we talk about Lewis' greatness, and how he is one of the greatest Heavies of our generation... he's a product of Canadian Boxing, not British.

He learned to fight in Canada, trained in Canada, had his amateur career in Canada and fought for Canada at the Olympics.

Lennox has absolutely nothing to do with the British boxing system whatsoever.

[ROSEWOOD]

he had 32 knockouts in about 45 fights. he is severely overrated in the power department. anybody who is 6'5 and 250 is gonna knock people out. im not saying he wasn't a good fighter, but he wasn't a one punch kayo artist like alot of brit fans say. he took people out with accumulated punishment, not one punch. for his size he was rather light hitting. ...........the time is yours...........

without steward and if he was 5'11 he would have been ****, he also waited for his contemporaries to get old, he isn't **** in history........prove me wrong.........

his nice jabs set up his power punches...i would say his power was overrated because he wasnt a peter...but multi punches is what did it for him..

[paul750]

his nice jabs set up his power punches...i would say his power was overrated because he wasnt a peter...but multi punches is what did it for him..

His jab was his most timid punch, his right hand was better than anything Peter has.

[bsrizpac]

I don't know why English people pop a woody every time we talk about Lewis' greatness, and how he is one of the greatest Heavies of our generation... he's a product of Canadian Boxing, not British.

He learned to fight in Canada, trained in Canada, had his amateur career in Canada and fought for Canada at the Olympics.

Lennox has absolutely nothing to do with the British boxing system whatsoever.

Ouch. That's so true it hurts.

I'm pretty sure you made 2tough cry now.

[ROSEWOOD]

His jab was his most timid punch, his right hand was better than anything Peter has.

lol....lewis was a true boxer...peter is just half man half gorilla..

[Guest]

Anybody can surmise something about a fighter's career by looking atthe numbers on Boxrec.com

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.

[BrooklynBomber]

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.