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Hypothetical match up: Lennox Lewis vs Oleksandr Usyk. The last two undisputed heavyweight champions. If they fight 3 times, who would win the trilogy in your opinion?
 

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Hypothetical match up: Lennox Lewis vs Oleksandr Usyk. The last two undisputed heavyweight champions. If they fight 3 times, who would win the trilogy in your opinion?
Lewis worked behind a great jab for the last half of his career, great uppercut, great straight right from an angle with extension (one of my favourite sort of punches). Good in the clinch too.

For comparison, Joshua in both fights vs Usyk threw more jabs than any other heavyweight in the last decade. It meant nothing in the bigger scheme of the fight.

People debating his chin only need look at Fury 1, he took some big, big shots in that fight and should have been granted a stoppage (ref gave Fury too a lot of leeway).

Lewis would not have the tank to go with Usyk over 12, people forget that Usyk has never been beaten in the last half of a fight at Heavyweight (and only once at Cruiserweight).
 
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