By Scott Gilfoid: former world champion Lennox Lewis believes that the heavyweight division is one ruled by the giant heavyweights such as the Klitschko brothers. He feels it’s tough for the smaller or mid-sized heavyweights to compete with the giants that are around today. Being perfectly honest, Lewis said that he doesn’t see David Haye as someone that would have lasted long against him in his prime.

Lewis said to the Dailymail.co.uk “I beat Vitali in a great fight when were in our prime…David might have lasted a couple of rounds against me if he was lucky. Heavyweight championship boxing is now a game for giants.”

I agree with Lewis. The little guys just don’t stand the chance against big talents like Deontay Wilder and the Klitschko brothers. You take a short 6’2″, 210 pound Haye and throw him in with a 6’7″ Wilder or 6’6″ Wladimir Klitschko or 6’7″ Vitali, and Haye is going to get dominated on size alone. The weight isn’t the issue here, it’s the height and arm length that allow those guys to dominate a little guy like Haye. Dereck Chisora weighs about as much as Vitali and Wladimir, but he looked hopefully lost against Haye and ended up getting taken out.

Lewis was a decent heavyweight in his prime but hardly invincible. I think he would have lost the fight to Vitali had the Ukrainian not suffered a bad cut. Winning by cuts shouldn’t be allowed because you really don’t see the whole picture of what actually happened in the fight when someone wins that way. Winning on an injury isn’t really winning in my book. That should be a no contest.

Haye probably would have problems against Lewis because he could fight scared instead of with confidence and that’s all it would take for Lewis to win. Lewis was good against fighters that fought like they were afraid. He struggled against the confident ones who had a plan.