Lennox Lewis's Punching Power

[krazyn8tive]

again you are trying to discredit Mike Tyson... Never could Lewis punch as hard as Mike Tyson, Frank Bruno fought both of them and Bruno on many occasions has said Tyson was the hardest puncher he ever fought, Lewis overwelmed Golota in one round, Tyson broke Golota's jaw in the opening round... Mike Tyson was one of the great powers of heavyweight history, Lewis wasn't.

Lewis k.o. Tyson. End thread//

[VibesMan]

Lewis k.o. Tyson. End thread//

Yes. Of course.

Goodbye.

[StarshipTrooper]

Lewis certainly had one-punch KO power and anything beyond that is gravy isn't it? I wouldn't rank him Shavers or Foreman but hell who else does rank with those two? You can fairly put him in the mix with the rest of the one-punch power guys and shaking them out is just a matter of relatively minor degrees.

Poet

[VibesMan]

Lewis certainly had one-punch KO power and anything beyond that is gravy isn't it? I wouldn't rank him Shavers or Foreman but hell who else does rank with those two? You can fairly put him in the mix with the rest of the one-punch power guys and shaking them out is just a matter of relatively minor degrees.

Poet

I wouldn't say he certainly had 1 punch lights out power.

Ok he levelled Rahman and a few others with one shot but a lot didn't crumble.

Bruno, who wasn't reknowned for the sturdiest of chins, took a lot. Tyson took a helluva lot as did others.

Lewis could certainly hurt with one shot though as can most heavies.

Like you say, it's George, Earnest then everyone else of note queues up behind.

[Toney616]

Lewis k.o. Tyson. End thread//

Doesnt work like that.

I would argue that Lewis had a more powerful straight right than Tyson, but Tyson's left and right hooks maybe more powerful, due to the extra leverage he would of got behind them from his better upper body mobility.

[StarshipTrooper]

I wouldn't say he certainly had 1 punch lights out power.

Ok he levelled Rahman and a few others with one shot but a lot didn't crumble.

Bruno, who wasn't reknowned for the sturdiest of chins, took a lot. Tyson took a helluva lot as did others.

Lewis could certainly hurt with one shot though as can most heavies.

Like you say, it's George, Earnest then everyone else of note queues up behind.

I think he has.....the traditionally accepted definition of "one-punch power" is the fighter can KO the AVERAGE chin with one punch. Obviously better chins are going to require a fighter to put his punches together to get the KO while weaker than average chins (and worse) can be one-punch KOed by fighters who have less then one-punch power.

I can't say it stongly enough: Chin is so important a factor here. It's always been a boxing axiom that a great chin beats a great punch and it's been bourn out in all the fights I've seen: It's better to have a great chin than great KO power.

On a side note, a lot of fighters who have been labled "glassed jawed" have, in fact, average chins. Conversly a number of fighters who are labled as "feather-fisted" have average power instead. Unfortunately a lot of boxing fans have an all-or-nothing attitude: Either you have a granite jaw or you're glassed jawed, either you have one-punch power or you can't punch at all. These people seem to be incapable of seeing the many degrees between the two extremes.

Poet

[Ascended]

For crazy stuck in time people saying he didn't hit as hard as a earnie or george idiots he didnt he hit way harder the both

George had to hit even mid carders mutiple times to drop them let alone stop them so his power wasnt that good

earn took mutiple punches to drop Larry and never dropped ali yea ali was that tough but lennox would drop him cause of tech and that he just threw way harder

Lennox dropped big hws who were known to be tough

[QueensburyRules]

For crazy stuck in time people saying he didn't hit as hard as a earnie or george idiots he didnt he hit way harder the both

George had to hit even mid carders mutiple times to drop them let alone stop them so his power wasnt that good

earn took mutiple punches to drop Larry and never dropped ali yea ali was that tough but lennox would drop him cause of tech and that he just threw way harder

Lennox dropped big hws who were known to be tough

- - Big George with more fights, KOs than any modern heavy, 84 KO% vs Lewie lesser KOs and 73 KO %.

Tommy ran, actually risking a DQ by turning his back on George repeatedly, from George's power to survive. Tommy engaged Lewie one on one to lose.

Lewie afraid of engaging Vander in their first fight whereas George had him hanging on for survival in the championship rounds. Clearly Lewie don't rate his own power in that fight.

What else you boys need to know?

[QueensburyRules]

Idiot that quote of running makes no sense he knew george hit hard and used his weight and he wasnt as tough as he used to be

using that quote of running means tom should have just stood there so ali should have let george hit him cleanly huh just stand there and get koed see how ****** that sound you idiot

Holy wasnt close to being in danger thats a lie

The high ko is cause george first era he fought people who stood there or who wasnt known to be that tough

Lewis fought way tougher people and who were way more advanced

Mutiple matches where lennox stopped or dropped or koed a person with way less shots then george did you crazy person

Anybody knows for a fact ali had he fought Lennox he wouldnt be able to do the dope or would he be able to take that many shots from him

Remember joe who kept getting hit and dropped just to get up and fall

Joe vs lennox joe would be picked off and he wouldn't be able to take clean shots over and over lennox only needs a handful to drop him let alone keep him down cause his tech was way better you idiot

Holy had way better tech then george and was a combo puncher why wouldn't lennox not wanna just engage like your really slow

Holy always engaged george cause he knew he wasnt no trouble idiot

Young george vs that same Holy gets combied to a ko you know cause young george had no defense wasted shots easy to read 3rd round

Lennox picks apart george fast 1st round

- - Sorta like U Exlax works fast to keep U movements flowing is it?

[DeeMoney]

I feel the same as most here: if you lined up all the heavyweights ever in their prime and had them hit a punch trax machine as hard as they could five times, Lewis's numbers would be near the top (top 5-10 range). But if you were to measure the average force of punches he landed in a fight it wouldn't be relatively as high. His upper cut and overhand were monsters, but he fought off the back foot, and used his height and skill.

He is the opposite of Wilder in this regards, who just relies on bombs.