Should the ref have stopped the Tyson Lewis fight.

It was the most bizarre single handed beat down I have ever seen in a boxing ring.

I was surprised neither the corners nor the referee ever bothered to stop the fight by round 5 when it was clear that one fighter was just not doing anything at all and was recieving punch after punch, jab after jab, upper cut after upper cut.

Tyson had even told his corner by the end of round 7 that enough was enough but they didn't let him quit.

I think he just laid down eventually in round 8, he took so much punishment in that fight, the last punch was nothing in comparison to what he took throughout that fight. If he really wanted to get up he could have but it was clear he was just like oh **** it.

Anyways I thought it was pretty inhuman by the corner and the referee to not stop the fight a lot earlier. I am even more surprised that version of Tyson even got allowed to be even be in the ring given how bad he was in his previous fight against neilsen

 

Actually technically speaking that wasn't a knock down, his knees never touched the floor. All the knock outs weren't knock outs, you aren't allowed to push a fighter down.

 

Lol Lewis will always have these question marks, the major names on his resume like holyfield and Tyson (especially) were spent forces. He desperately needed the Tyson name on his record, Tyson didn't really need lewis at all in their fight, he desperately wanted a pay day but Lewis on the other hand needed the fight to add a desperately needed name to his resume.

His victory over Vitali has question marks and the way he backed out from a justified rematch was just so unwarrior like.

Bottomline is that great champions don't need to constantly bark and talk on interviews about how great they were during their time and to having to constantly remind people what they did, nor do they have to constantly have to carefully plan their legacy to the finest.

Tyson can go into a room and stay silent and watch everyone else go on and on about him. He just did what he did during his time and era without any planning and that's that.

The current boxing scene desperately needs a Mike Tyson again for revivals. The likes of klitschko s were perfect replacements for lewis.

 

Busters mom dying motivated him to super human level for just that one night. He was literally not scared of dying. Lewis would have his work cut out with an opponent like that.

 

How did he almost quit? He claims he was just angry at himself for getting him and being off balance and that he was paying full attention to the referee and the count, if the ref counted faster he would have got up quicker.

This wouldn't change if even Lewis was there instead of Tyson.