Fight fans love a list, especially when it\u2019s an all-time great listing his own picks for the greatest fighters ever. Lennox Lewis, who ruled as the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and who took on and defeated every single opponent he ever shared a ring with, was recently asked by Hard Rock Bet to list his five greatest ever fighters.<\/p>\n
Lennox Names His Top Five<\/p>\n
Muhammad Ali
Jack Johnson
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
George Foreman
Joe Louis.
Quite an interesting list from Lennox, with, quite understandably, most of his chosen fighters being heavyweights. It\u2019s great that Lewis gives the so ahead of his time Jack Johnson his flowers, as it\u2019s nice to read how much Lewis respects Marvelous Marvin.<\/p>\n
Foreman, who was actually in the frame for a fight with Lewis in the mid-1990s, is, of course, a legend who appears on many such lists. As for \u201cThe Brown Bomber,\u201d Joe Louis, he is equally a legend, one could argue even more so.<\/p>\n
Dream Fights Across Eras<\/p>\n
Lewis, who answered back that he himself is \u201cdefinitely in the room,\u201d as far as deserving to be ranked alongside the five immortals he listed, would indeed have been able to compete in any era. The idea of a prime Lewis going in with Johnson is nothing short of fascinating, while Lewis vs. Louis might well have tested both giants hard.<\/p>\n
Ali, the king of kings for so many millions of people, not just Lewis, provided Lennox with so much motivation and desire, just as \u201cThe Greatest\u201d continues to do today, with current heavyweight ruler Oleksandr Usyk listing Ali as his boxing hero.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s tough to pick just five fighters when asked to list the greatest in history, but Lewis has done a pretty good job here, don\u2019t you agree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fight fans love a list, especially when it\u2019s an all-time great listing his own picks for the greatest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-205302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}