Lewis vs Tyson 1990 and 1991

Lewis wasn't in his prime in 1991, he was still very green, so in both scenarios Lewis would be K.O'd pretty easily, & maybe damaging to the rest of his career.

 

No it wouldn't be more damaging to lose to Tyson than McCall, but the Lewis camp would've been insane to make that match at that stage of Lewis's career. Yes Lewis could probably have re-built his career. As for Tyson, a win over a green Lewis would add very little to his rep, even if Lewis went onto a hall of fame career, he was still a baby in 1991.

 

It depends on whether Lennox's manager would take the fight that early. I think Lewis was too great a talent to cash him out that early by throwing him to wolves against Tyson. We are not talking about Gerry Cooney here. Lewis was a clean-living guy with no out of the ring issues and a gold medalist. If Ruddock hadn't been his coming out party as a force in the division then someone else would have been chosen. Not many were picking Lewis to beat Ruddock in 92' so a Tyson fight in 1990-91' would have been out of the question. It was too early. Lewis got Tyson at the perfect time for him. Although Lennox is a year older than Mike is chronologically Tyson was still the older man with more wear and tear on him.

 

I think this is a fight that could go either way, Lewis was better than Ruddock in every way and Tyson went life and death with him in the second bout.

If Tyson catches him early it's probably game over but at that time Tyson wasn't hardly hard to catch either, Lewis at that stage of his career was way more aggressive. Once Tyson felt Lewis's power and strength it would get very intereting.

 

Lewis didn't come into his own until well after 1993, so we're expecting quite a lot from him here.
He was still very inexperienced against Mason and it showed. At this stage, he had the raw potential but he was making a lot of mistakes and hadn't really found his feet properly as a heavyweight yet.

To expect him to beat a highly experienced heavyweight who was near the top of his game, and not just any old veteran heavyweight but Mike Tyson, is asking a lot.

At this stage, it's really Tyson's fight to lose for me. Post 1993, things become a lot more interesting.

 

Tyson had just had the stuffing beat out of him by Douglas so he was far from the unbeatable beast he was once made out to be.

Don't forget Ruddock had Mike going a few times in both fights by basically throwing one shot constantly, Lewis had more tools than Ruddock including a great uppercut and right hand.

In 90-91 with both arguably not at their best it's anyone's fight IMO, Lewis was no Ruddock chin wise but he had a massive size and strength advantage over Mike and if not blasted out early that would be telling.

 

Mmmm...the timing of this 'fight' seems designed to engineer a win for Michelle.
Every time the subject of these 2 comes up...what you have to factor in is that there was never really a time frame when they were both at or near peak.
The fantasy fight would have to be Michelle 1987 v Lennox late nineties. Not sure who would win...Lennox has all the tools to do the job...but Michelle 87 was a machine.

 

lewis was green for tyson at that time, prime vs prime lewis beats tyson once for sure, if not more

 

Who da **** is Michelle?

 

heavyhandss, foremansjab, foremanshook, wass1985, markclitheroe, dan4579 is the same person

 

i think that you must be a kid , because you are infantile like hell.. every person who disagreed with you is the same guy according to you. if you can use your brain you can see that i disagreed tons of times with foremanjab and even i called him horrible poster.. so now you exposed yourself like a stupid

 

Lewis was still very green and only turned pro less than 2 years before the dates you give. He also was still under the tutorage of Pepe Correra who was not the right fit for him. With all these things considered I'd have to say Tyson by decision or early stoppage.