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I'm amazed that I see some who don't give Rahman or McCall credit for power. Again, Lennox can be dented. However, to his credit, McCall and Rahman both, while not legendary champions, have respectable power.
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Lewis' chin doesn't rank up there with that of Chuvalo or Tex Cobb or even ALI. But, if you put him against most champions before him, there is no guarantee that they'd score a knockdown or stop him.
Gotta love Blogbaba's explanation, And Lester's short and direct answer. Lewis was much like Khan in every respect. They got great great boxing skills, no question and certainly among UK's boxing greats. But when they get hit, they fold. . Lewis was very hard to hit. It is because he knew how to make use of his good height and reach. That jab enabled him to stay away from murderous punchers like Tua and Tyson. That chin does not get tested a lot because of that, but when his opponent finds the mark, that chin does crumble.
Did Lennox Lewis have a 'glass' chin?
Yes. If you would rank Lewis in the toughest HW's ever, you would be amazed yourself as you would be hard pressed to put him inside the top 100
The first, but certainly not the only stat one looks at when evaluating the status of a given fighters chin is how many times and at what stage of the fighters career was the fighter KOed.
The quality of the opposition who koed the fighter and the time frame in a given career that the ko(s) occur in relation to the fighter's over all prime play the key roles in determining the glass content of a given fighters jaw.
Also, the knock downs a fighter suffers in his career play a role because evaluation of a fighters jaw also is subject to whether the fighter got up from a knockdown to continue to fight or stayed down for the full ten count. A fighter who gets up from a knockdown and continues to fight is generally considered to have a superior chin compared to one who gets tagged and stays down.
Generally speaking there is a difference between a KO and a TKO that does effect evaluation of a given fighters chin.
Last but certainly not least is the condition of a fighters legs and over all demeanor post knock down. A glass jawed fighter gets all wobbly and rubbery where an iron jawed fighter remains relatively solid after a knock down.
I would consider Lennox Lewis's chin suspect, and certainly not an par with history's best chins. Vitali Klitschko had an iron jaw, Wladimir and Lennox did not, but some glass is fragile and shatters easily while some glass is impact resistant and takes a considerable impact to shatter it.
My short answer is yes, Lennox had a glass jaw, I don't consider Rahman and McCall "great punchers", but they were better than Pruitty, Brewster, Sanders so the type of "glass" is different between Lennox and Wlad, but both chins did shatter.
no. Lennox never had a glass Jaw. he took Tyson,Tua,Holyfield and a few other Punchers best shots. Mccall and Rahman could knock out any body they hit cleanly and both are hard Punchers. people forgot Lennox got up from McCall and was ok after that. but the Ref stopped the FIGHT. his Chin was not as good as Ali,Tyson,Foreman and a few others but it was still Good and not Glass.
No and he should have retired undefeated in all honesty. The shots he got caught with he knows he shouldn't have, but he was complacent and treating the fights like 'routine' title defences. Unfortunately it took a big right hand to wake him up.
Vitali Klitschko should also have retired undefeated although the losses weren't his fault like Lennox's were.
No, he was only dropped twice in his whole career. Took the best shots of Vitali, Morrison, Tua etc and didn't go down. He was knocked out but it's heavyweight boxing, it can happen to anyone.
I guess he lacked motivation at the end of his career and felt that if he could beat him in his worst condition there was no need for a rematch.
He had a bad european style stance, and it was a horrible defense, Steward fixed his defense up over time. Lewis didn't train for the 1st rahman fight and got caught.
Mercer, Holyfield, Tua, Tyson couldn't hurt him. Also Vitali hit a Old Lewis with everything he had and couldn't hurt him.
Hasim Rahman is one of the hardest hitters, but the knockdown from Oliver McCall shows us that his chin couldn't be the best, since McCall isn't that hard a hitter. But calling it "glass chin" is a bit harsh. Those guy that knocked him down are at least some of those new "Super Heavyweights" when we go after weight(200+ pounds).
Compared to other hall of fame or ATG heavyweight champions, it could be said that he had a glass chin.
He was knocked out twice with just one powerful blow on both occasion ( versus Hashim Rahman and Oliver McCall ). Some champions before him like Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali were never knocked out in their prime or career. Many champions also before him like Louis, Liston, Frazier, Foreman, Holmes, Tyson, Holyfield were never knocked out in the same manner he was kayoed---usually it was a combination of sustained punishments and fatigue that did them in.
No. He just got hit flush on the chin in those occasions, and it happens to any boxer, e.g. Manny Pacquiao. I mean, he had tough battles with Evander Holyfield, Klitschko and even Tyson, where he got tagged pretty good but he never went down.
no glass but not iron jawed either , the fact he could and was ko'd leaves lewis just short of the great heavies for me
Only when he thought he could walk all over a puncher to prove a point, as with McCall.
Not necessarily, but he was kayo'd quite easily by Rachman
Maybe not, but he got knocked out by two guys that should not have been able to knock him out.
So maybe he did have a glass jaw.
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