Lennox Lewis Was Afraid Of Mike Tyson

Cus thought Tyson how to side step and bob n weave perfectly. Front runner is 100% wrong. Lewis fought Tyson 12 years past prime. To compare the two Tyson's is idiotic. As i said , Lewis had trouble with, old , slow Mercer who was a weak imitation of prime Tyson.

 

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Both were scared, but Tyson was afraid of Lewis's fists, whereas Lennox was afraid of Tyson's teeth.

 

most fighters hav some fear going on its just how they deal with it..

 

Wrong! Tysons own trainers and Ive spoke to several say themselves that Tyson was a head case front runner. He never had the mental strength to deal with adversity.

 

it was close, certainly not a robbery but imo lennox was outjabbed round after round. if ray jabbed, he won. if he took a round off, lennox started throwing heavy leather and some decent combos.

i had it 6-4 for ray but a draw or close lewis win isn't out of the question. I just personally didn't score it as such

 

i wouldn't take their opinion as purely objective though. some of them appear to have axes to grind

 

He wanted no part of Tyson when Mike was in his prime. When Tyson was shot, all of a sudden Lennox wanted the fight. Lennox similarly ducked prime Holyfield, Tony Tucker, Wladimir Klitschko, Chris Byrd, and the list goes on and on.

 

he completely cleaned out the 90s heavyweights. the timing could have been better on some of the bouts but he fought, and beat, everyone in his era

 

Lewis was long retired by the time Wlad reached his prime

 

Lewis must have watched Tyson fight from botha onwards, anyone with a bit of intelligence let alone Lewis could easily tell that Tyson was a horribly shot fighter who apart from his usual craziness in the first 2-3 rounds of a fight had nothing left to survive against a quality fighter.

This was a really bad match for tyson at that stage because he was fighting against a guy who was the world champion, had peaked late and was fighting at his best even if in that twilight of his career while he last fought to his potential in 1988.

Money makes people take bad decisions.

 

That Tyson press conference rant at that reporter was one of my favorite images of him. Truly bad ass, he obviously pulled that stunt to sell the fight and it worked beautifully to the point where people even considered that he had a chance to win even though he was badly shot as a fighter. The fight broke all records in terms of revenues and attendances.

 

Lewis hurt his hand while landing his 167 punches on tyson. Tyson had a very good chin and only Tyson could have taken 167 punches without any serious trading for 8 whole rounds. Now I have seen Lewis speak in press conferences, post fight interviews, he has always been full of himself where he brags about himself and doesn't praise his opponents in sportsmanship but even he admitted that Tyson could take a heck of a punch and he was shocked to see the punches he was taking.

 

Tyson won the first round against Lewis.Lewis showed a dirty and pathetic coward
tactic.Every intelligent, well-informed boxing fan respects Tyson's punching power.
Of course the Tyson hater monitorheads don't respect Tyson by words.
The i think these losers never were in the same ring with Tyson.

 

I laugh at people who say Tyson won the first round, maybe he did but it was he who was hurt with those upper cuts and it was Lewis who laid out the blue print as to what was going to follow for the rest of the fight. That particular strategy would have served Lewis well regardless of when they fought. He bullied him around, used his size and threw hellacious uppercuts and if you want an example of a pathetic coward, just remember Tyson's the guy who bit someone's ear off, how cowardly, dirty and pathetic is that?