All time great. Quits at the perfect time. Doesn't give in to comeback and rematch Vit or any other bullshit for a money grab. Stays out of trouble. No drugs no bullshit mma fights to make a buck. Completely coherent and happy in retirement.
Rocky Marciano died in a helicopter accident and the Jazzerciser got more coked up than usual after retirement. So I would say yes
Had some luck. Swerved Bowe at the right time so he could pick up a title and have more bargaining power. Got the post Bowe Golota who was mentally never the same guy after Bowe made him have to resort to low blows. McCall and Rahman KO's shouldn't have happened and he emphatically beat them. The Mercer fight could have gone either way imo. Excellent performance vs Vitali where he truely showed his heart and will to win. If he still had the desire to put that right, he would have trained and got himself into Rahman 2 shape and done Vitali in 3-4 rounds imo. Then KO'ing Wlad would have been the perfect end to his career. If he had known they would reign for the next 10+ years I'm sure he probably would have had the desire to get wins over them. But Wlad had bad KO loses to Purity and Sanders and Vitali had been beaten while Lewis was out of shape and late notice.
Bowe made Golota resorted to low blows so he was never the same? Yeah im sure Golota still has PSTD from the low blows he landed on Bowe
Even then, losing by one punch ko twice would disqualify him from having a perfect career. Not rematching Mercer or fighting Bowe or Tyson & Holy in their prime (or at least closer to their prime) would also disqualify from ''perfection''. Arguably so does his revenge win vs a McCall that was clearly struggling with addiction as it did not emphatically avenged his earlier loss. So does him not fighting Ruiz and Byrd who established themselves as solid contenders (for the ral championship) after making several defenses of the vacant title they took from him (please don't tell me his career wouldn't have looked better had if fought either instead of Botha). Yeah most of these is not his fault personally but ''perfection'' is the highest standard you can give and honestly, Lewis's career is nowhere close to it (even though he's a top 5 hw of all time imo, maybe even top 3).
