Who hates Lennox Lewis the most?

I see his cheek bleeding. Where's the blood getting into his eyes. PREMATURE STOPPAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:shit:

 

:: are you mad you didn't get nominated?

 

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classic! great stuff Dsimon:: :bears:

 

as much as I "hate" on Lemmon

there is NO WAY Klit finishes that fight. He would have gotten brutally stopped

 

Evander>Lennox

 

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Do you have the german broadcast where the camera zones in on Lewis after the bell rings ending round 6? The HBO version goes to advertisements for upcoming fights in that same instance. Lewis to me looked like he was ready to go for the 7th. To be fair, it could've been anybody's fight but I don't believe Lewis was ready to be taken regardless of what many people think based on Lewis' flopping on the stool as if all done in.

 

The 6th round is when Vitali suffered a hole in his lip stemming from the uppercut. Each round, he was getting a new gash of some sort.::

 

I think if it went one more round Lenny would have stretched the german robot

 

Is this a Monty Python sketch?

 

I know you're dumb but are you telling me you're so fucking dumb that you can't even click play on the Jeremy Williams judo flipping Lewis video in the boxing streams section of this site?

 

Jeremy was getting the f*ck kicked out of him in boxing so he had to judo flip Lewis to get even. What a warrior! :clap:
Where's Jeremy now? Getting KTFO in every significant boxing match and almost dying at the hands of Sam Peter and Akinwande, so he thinks he can make it in MMA.::

 

Lewis's performance against Tua was PATHETIC!

If Ibeabuchi would have faced that fat and uninterested Tua, he would've KHTFO!

Ibeabuchi was a big heavyweight, had one punch KO power in both hands, a granite chin, above average hand speed, great stamina to easily fight 12 rounds hard and a huge heart.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to Lewis was Ibeabuchi being thrown in prison.

He would've beaten Lewis so bad it would've purged him from his sins.

 

Uninterested Tua? The motherf*cker was fighting for his dream! For the heavyweight championship of the world! :laughing:
The guy didn't realize how hard Lewis could punch until he got hit and didn't want anymore. Even in the buildup, Tua was thinking he'd take anything Lewis could throw, use up Lewis' gas tank and then smash him out. Tua didn't realize Lewis had 1 punch power.::

 

False.

Lewis was taking a beating. In the sixth round he landed a MONSTER uppercut that most people would have imagined would end the fight if he could land it.

Instead Vitali hardly budged. Sure he was shaken up a bit but the look on Lewis's face was of a broken man who realized he just landed his best shot and it didn't phase his opponent.

Vitali held on a bit towards the end but I got the impression he was saving himself to come out strong in the seventh and try to close out the show.

Lewis collapsed onto his stool at the end of the round and it really looked bad for him at that point.

Then the fight was stopped. And Lewis refuses to consider a rematch and retires.

Vitali calls him out for years while Lewis refuses to come back no matter how much money he's offered.

 

Tua weighed 254 lbs for that fight. Yea, he was really motivated. LMAO!

 

Get your facts straight esk. Tua was 245lbs. Lewis was 249lbs.

 

Tua had no fire in his belly for that fight, his performance was just as pathetic as Lewis's.

 

How did Klitschko end up doing against Rahman?

I guess a fighter has to follow what his body tells him.

 

"Everyone has a plan until they get hit!" -Mike Tyson

 

Try fighting somebody who's almost a foot taller, has 15" reach advantage and is a world champion. Tua only ever had a lucky puncher's chance in that fight.

 

There was one major difference though: Lewis' pathetic performance brought him an easy victory

 

Indeed it did, because if 2 fighters put in a pathetic peformance, the taller, more skilled guy with a jab is going to win easily.

 

No one has to fight if they don't want to. But the point is his legacy was hurt for ducking a rematch with Vitali.

He also ducked Bowe, Witherspoon, Ruiz and Byrd.

This guy just avoided a lot of fighters in his career.

 

Whatever Tua's plan was, it definitely wasn't to train hard for the fight.

 

..which means his performance is not really pathetic at all, just smart and effective

 

No, it really was pathetic. Boring too. He was in with a waddling little punching bag that threw the occasional left hook.

Lewis could have stepped it up anytime and not been at too much risk.

Tua is tough, but if Lewis really wanted to he could have stopped him.

 

Mex, your name should have been added to the poll. In fact, I'm quite surprised it wasn't, mate. ::

I've tried so hard to stay out of this thread, but there isn't much else going on, so...

I take your point in respect of the Tua fight, and perhaps a couple of others (both Holy fights spring to mind) but honestly, I can't accept this whole 'Lewis was a cowardly fighter' thing.

Lewis generally sought to fight using his jab and natural height and reach advantages from time to time, but he only did so when he felt there was a significant danger in his opponent. As stated, Tua and Holy spring to mind. However, he's hardly the only HW ever to do so, is he? I mean, look at Wlad against Ibragimov the other week. Jesus wept, he didn't even throw jabs, he threw 'power parries' ::

It's not as if HW is a division where throwing caution to the wind is without risk. In fact, it's probably the worst division to try this sort of fighting tactic. One punch, landing flush, can be a deal breaker. Look at how McCall KO'd Lewis as Lennox was leaning in, trying to knock Oliver out himself with a power shot. Do you not think this might have had something to do with Lennox's subsequent, cautious tactics in certain fights?

Tua was a classic case in point. Tua was considered very, very dangerous as a puncher. He'd KO Ruiz inside 19 seconds, FFS! Limited and fat he may have been, but he was universally recognized as a puncher. Why the hell would any fighter be expected to play that sort of game when Lewis KNEW he could win simply by jabbing the life out of him?

Moreover, the arguments you make allow for the conclusion that Lennox ALWAYS fought like that. Of course, you and I know he didn't. Whenever Lewis KNEW he was a cut above his opponent, or he felt he could blast his man out, he usually went for it. 32 KO's in 41 victories hardly make for a cautious, cowardly fighter, Mex.

In a perfect, ideal world, Lennox would have went all guns blazing at every opportunity. But boxing isn't like that, especially when you have already been KO'd trying that very thing and you fight in the one division where absolutely any old bum can take you out if he lands a single shot perfectly.

MTF

 

Very good points by MTF

Also I am not sure if Holyfield was any more "fighter" than Lewis was. Much of him being aggressive was that for a guy of his size that was usually the only way he could win because he couldn't jab and move his way to wins. When he was able to easily outbox Holmes, he did just that and did not go for the kill. He didn't slug much with Foreman either. And when he did slug against Bert Cooper, it nearly costed him

 

It was funnier when you tried harder.