Was Lennox Lewis a great champion ?

[PBDS]

.....IMO Lennox was a great champ and he deserves his due. I never liked him much but I won't play blind hater. He took on a ton of big punchers and with it a great deal of risk and he avenged his loses(regardless of the fact that McCall was crying in the ring and presented no challenge). He was boring at times and overly catious, but he was still a great champ. If he and Bowe had fought he would have beaten Bowe's ass rather easily.

[TheGreat1]

he was the best of his era, if only Holyfeild was bigger and younger

Holy gave 2 great fights with Prime LL. i think he beats LL in 90-94

[TheEvilSaint]

great champion's dont drop the belt for money. thats all there is to it.

[Bozo_no no]

great champion's dont drop the belt for money. thats all there is to it.

Yea it's not like many fighters have given up belts for better money options.

Come on.

Look at Barrera after beating Naz at Featherweight. He gave up every belt to not pay sanctioning fees.

The titles have become useless in reccent years, and are full of corruption and greed.

The LightHeavyweight "Champion" hasn't even held a major ABC title in years.

[DiegoFuego]

great champion's dont drop the belt for money. thats all there is to it.

are u telling me you have more respect for a guy who keeps his belt and defends against mandatory bums (a Roy Jones Jr.) than guys that say F THE BELTS, GIVE ME THE BEST like Antonio Tarver and Glen Johnson when they decided to fight each other in a real fight and gave up their belts?

do you respect Mayweather or Margarito more?

use your head, man, I know you don't mean what you said

[joenypr]

I never rooted for Lewis, the reason being because he was great and i usually root for the underdog. He fought and beat the best opposition plus he was very respectful. His actions in and out of the ring are what made him great.

[raymon123]

Ali was anything but boring and I never said ll wasn't smart. He is just plain boring. Further more, to be a great champ aren't u suppose to have exciting fights and make people want to see u ? what fight made u say Damn I need to see him next time ? The most fights people really watched from ll are the rematches of when he got stretched.

Then i guess hopkins, roy jones, whitiker, they're not great champions because they are boring fighters. Damn man just quit typing, you making yourself look bad.

[raymon123]

lewis won every round of both rahman fight except the one he got
stopped in

Exactly thats the difference. The first fight before that one lucky shot that rahman land, lewis was winning the fight from round 1 to 4. The rematch lewis was destroying rahman from rounds 1 to 4 until bam lewis ko rahman bad.

[raymon123]

Bro the HW champ is suppose to knock nig**s out not just survive. Lewis was a boring HW champ plain and simple. U tell me what other hw champ didn't go for a ko 99.999... % of the time when it was available. LL didn't because he was scared in his heart not to. He knew his chin was suspect

W 41 (32 ko's) <<< Look at that record, now you tell me is that record show you that lewis is afraid of looking for a ko? lol i'm beg of you stop. Look you already made a fool out of yourself with this thread. So far its a landslide poll 62 ppl voted for yes and 13 ppl that voted no. Just stop man please.

[Tong Po]

Lennox Lewis has probably been one of the top 5 heavyweights of all time in my opinion. If he had have been an American guarenteed he would be thought of as the greatest heavyweight of all-time. That's the only thing that ever worked against him the American dislike/jealousy/envy whatever it was that a man from another Continent so dominated the heavyweight division.