Joe Frazier vs Lennox Lewis. Who wins?

Question

15 rounds with both in their prime

Answer 1

Toughguy - Why didn't I think of that one, great match up. When I think of Frazier in his prime it has to be when he was tuned up and razor sharp for the first Ali fight. Lewis to me doesn't have that real benchmark moment in his career where you can measure when exactly he was in his prime. Against Tyson? no. Against Ruddock When he won his first belt? Maybe. He was never really tested and he got knocked out by two guys he really didn't have any business losing to (Rahman and McCall). Granted Frazier lost four fights in his career, two to Ali and two to Foreman, both all time greats. That is a testament to the superior competition Smokin' Joe fought. I see Frazier getting inside of Lewis' reach and negating his jab and straight right. He wears Lewis down with his brutal body attack and it's lights out for Lewis in round 8 of a slug fest due to Smokin' Joe's relentless pressure.

Answer 2

Frazier best punch is the left hook, which I would think he will have Difficulty landing that punch against Lennox because of His height and Boxing skills.

Lennox is susceptible to right Hand counters as shown in both his KO losses to Ordinary Mac Call and Rahman.

In Order for Frazier to win This fight he should Develop his right hand, and need to take out Lennox Quickly if He cant do that Then Lennox will win a Late Stoppagge or UD 15

Answer 3

I wanna say Smokin Joe in a majority decision. I see it being a slug fest, with Joe winning the last three rounds to take the bout. It would be an interesting fight with Lewis' height and reach and Frazier's heart and hook.

Answer 4

Joe Frazier hands down.

Answer 5

Lennox Lewis would win with out any problem, Boxing has evolved since Smoking Joe's days

Answer 6

Joe frazier

Answer 7

Tough call, Frazier was a small heavyweight by todays standards, very 1 dimensional & very 1 handed also, but he had the heart of a lion & he flattened many a bigger heavyweight with his awesome punching power, so i gave him the nod in this 1!

Answer 8

Lennox and Fraizer? Heh, Fraizer always had trouble with taller guys. Not to mention fraizers left hook being his heart and soul. We all know Fraizer had the heart of a lion, but dont sell lennox short, he was a true champion, and a gentelmen. Im gonna have to say lewis.

Answer 9

Joe Frazier (Joseph William Frazier)
("Smokin' Joe")
BORN January 12 1944; Beaufort, South Carolina
HEIGHT 5-11 1/2
WEIGHT 197-229 lbs
RECORD 32-4-1 (27 KO)
Born in Beaufort County, S.C., Joe was the 11th child of Rubin and Dolly Frazier. The Fraziers had a 12th child, David, who died of diphtheria at nine months old.
His father was a sharecropper, who, according to Frazier's 1996 autobiography, "Smokin' Joe," ran a moonshine still and grew "this musk, which I figure now must've been tobacco or marijuana."
By 1959, Joe was on his own, and that year, at 15, he moved to New York to live with an older brother, Tommy, and Tommy's wife, Ollie. He had a difficult time finding work, so difficult that he began stealing cars and selling them to a Brooklyn junkyard for $50 apiece.
While working at a slaughterhouse, he punched sides of beef in a refrigerated room (giving Sylvester Stallone some inspiration for "Rocky") and took up bona-fide boxing in December 1961 when, 30 pounds overweight at 220, he entered a Police Athletic League gym in the city.
Frazier was a 1964 Olympic heavyweight Gold Medalist. The following year, he turned pro in his adopted home town of Philadelphia. He won his first 11 bouts by knockout, four in the first round.
Frazier was a strong, "swarmer" style boxer who applied great pressure on his opponent and dealt out tremendous punishment with a relentless attack of lefts and rights; His left hook was especially stiff and quick when delivered during his bob-and-weave perpetual attack; He fought three minutes per round and never seemed to tire; He could take punishment too and not be bothered
Ali has been quoted as saying Frazier was the roughest and toughest fighter he ever faced in the ring. No one can deny the fact that Ali fought the world's top heavyweights from 1960 through 1980. Ali's opinion should count for something when evaluating Frazier? He fought more rounds against him than any other fighter.
Smokin’ Joe was a great heavyweight champion who put up the toughest resistance Muhammad Ali ever faced. He was the first man to defeat Ali. And only Ali and George Foreman ever beat him. His cumulative pro record was 32 wins, four losses (two to Ali and two to Foreman) and a draw in a bout against Floyd Cummings in 1981; that, his very last fight, was to be Frazier’s comeback after five-plus years away from the ring.

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Lennox Lewis (Lennox Claudius Lewis)
(the "Lion")
BORN September 2 1965; West Ham, England
HEIGHT 6-5
WEIGHT 224-256 1/2 lbs
RECORD 41-2-1 (32 KO)
The man destined for international fighting greatness came to the world on September 2, 1965, in London's tough East End. Lennox Claudius Lewis, the son of a Jamaican woman and a father who left him while still a tot, was born to modest surroundings. His mother, Violet, towed him to Canada where she found work in a Styrofoam plant.
Lennox Lewis was a born athlete, excelling at basketball, football, soccer, track, and volleyball while still in high school. But it was boxing that brought him fame with a calm demeanor and elegance. His amateur record of 95-9 (with 52 knockouts) was not enough, he took the gold medal at the World Junior Championship in 1983 and the silver medal for Canada at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, and he took claim of the heavyweight Olympic gold in Seoul in 1988.
He turned pro the following year and rose through the ranks by defeating European champion Jean Chanet, British champion Gary Mason and Commonwealth title-holder Derek Williams.
In 1993, he became the first Briton for more than a century to hold a version of the world heavyweight title.
Lewis was a big, strong Super Heavyweight who moved well, possessed a good jab, super right hand punch and very good left . He had a solid chin and great confidence;
Long derided by American critics, who thought him hard-hitting but cumbersome, Lewis finally earned their unqualified admiration with his punishment of Mike Tyson on 8 June, 2002.
With only two professional defeats to his name, Lewis is known for his calculated fighting style and grace in the ring.


Fraiser wins by knockout in 11

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Answer 10

Frazier. Shouldn't be a question.