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Lennox Lewis "a boring fighter" the biggest myth in boxing history?
I have seen ALL of this guys fights. I cannot for the life of me understand why so many people say he was a boring fighter.
He provided barn burners numerous times.
He provided barn burners numerous times.
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He was an exciting fighter but had a couple stinkers where we controlled the fight and kept it at a safe tempo.
Certainly not a wladimir Klitschko. He deserves the boring title -
Americans viewed the division as rock em sock em robots at the time, guys like Tyson bowe and Holyfield with no defence trading until one fell overComment
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I have never heard anyone call him boring I heard people say he took rounds off but boring? Who??Comment
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To be the “Biggest myth in boxing history” I think it would have to at least be a popular myth.Comment
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American commentators said this just to downplay him all the time. They didn't like a Brit being on top and having their guys running from him all the time.
Lennox is my favourite fighter ever so I remember these smears like it was yesterday. had social media been about back then, it would have proven much worse than what AJ is getting now.Comment
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We thought he was a clincher at the time, but then Wlad took over the division and showed us what a clincher really was.Comment
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I didn't think he or his style were exciting but he faced a lot of guys who turned the matches into exciting fights. Kinda like Holmes. Wlad was the same way, but way worse.Comment
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Plenty of Americans at the time were saying it.
See back in 1996 times Americans were always at the top so they sneered at Lennox.
Now in 2019 it's been almost a quarter of a decade since an American has been on top, and they are getting used to being second best to europeansComment
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