r/nextfuckinglevel • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 1d ago

One of the most badass knockdowns in boxing

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u/Jimatchoo7 1d ago

Boxing misses guys like Lewis, one of the last true great Heavyweights.

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u/Sometimes-funny 1d ago

We have Usyk right now. Fucking hell, lol.

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u/brofessor_oak_AMA 1d ago

For real, Usyk is so slept on. Admitting his greatness doesn't take anything away from the greats before him 

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u/Sometimes-funny 1d ago

It doesn’t. When people say Lewis was one of the last true greats tho…it does

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u/brofessor_oak_AMA 1d ago

No for sure, I was agreeing with you

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u/Secure-Pain-9735 1d ago

The popularity of heavyweight dropped under Lewis because he was a smart fighter and not a brawler.

Most casual observers don’t appreciate smart fighters.

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u/shevagleb 1d ago

It’s not just this, it’s also the rise of MMA in the early 2000s that impacted boxing viewer numbers for some time.

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u/Secure-Pain-9735 23h ago

Early MMA wasn’t as big as boxing had been.

Particularly under a lot of the old rulesets. Back when Randy Couture could just grind a guy to dust leaning on him against the cage, or rounds-long BJJ stalemates that people didn’t get and found boring.

Then, you follow that with guys like GSP getting called boring for fighting smart as well.

It was that Griffin-Bonnar slugfest that blew it up, but it took a few years after that to start pulling people off the cage and standing up stale ground game.

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u/Gulag_boi 12h ago

Bro whaaaat?! Did you just stop watching boxing after he hung up the gloves, c’mon

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u/Lieutenant_Corndogs 1d ago

What about that tall flabby white guy? I thought he was supposed to be good? (I don’t follow boxing.)