Prime Mike Tyson vs Prime Lennox Lewis

Big Baby would actually fit Joe Joyce. Acts/looks like a big kid.

 

And Tyson was a better puncher than Rahman and McCall.

 

Prime Lennox vs Prime Mike Tyson....

If Lewis is fully focused, motivated and sharp (which he woud for Tyson)....

I have Lennox as a winner 7 times or 8 times out of 10. Just a terrible match-up for Iron Mike.

 

Lol ...... Lewis lost only because he undertestimated his opponets. Lewis would never undertestimate Mike Tyson. It would be a completely different story.

I am shocked sometimes how simply people make conclusions here without any deeper thinking.

 

So Lewis loses to the easier and lesser guy but its impossible to lose to the better guy because he has his brain switched on that night?

 

not like i pulled out a tape measure and ****. . . but i can tell you, i was much taller then Tyson

 

I m still going mike tyson and still dont think people quite realise the potential he threw away. He lived and trained like an amatuer for most of his career and still remained competetive well after his very short prime. Lewis wouldnt have been able to do that.

Theres no argument who had the better career in terms of longetivity but in terms of prime for prime I say tyson. Even tho we probably never even seen tysons real prime.

Probably a close argument if we take post steward lewis versus michael spinks tyson. I still say tyson....but an argument could probably be made either way.

Its a could have should have would have tbh. But if tyson had of stayed on course.....he,d have beat them all imo.

Looking at his prime.....it wasnt just who he was beating....it was how he was beating them and the speed in which he done it. Pretty sure he beat james tillis then mitch green 17 days apart at 19 years old. Over a 14 month period he beat......berbick, bonecrusher, pinklon thomas, tony tucker, tyrell biggs, larry holmes, tony tubbs and michael spinks.

He was 21 years old by the end of that run. Even just watching any one of them fighters on youtube.....every single one of them was a handful. Underrated era tbh. Its not till you go back and watch them you realise how good they actually we,re.

Peoples perceptions skewed because unlike nowadays they all fought each other back then making their records look worse than the guys we see nowadays.

 

I still find it hard to believe, if you are 5ft10 you couldn't have been much taller than him unless you were wearing your platforms again.

 

well, im not going to sit on here an have an all out debate with you over it. Convincing YOU of anything is very low on my list of priorities

 

I do not know who wins but i know this would be a fight of a century when 88 version of tyson would meet prime lewis .

Both of them would destroy any of current hw .

 

Even pre-Steward Lewis had the style to beat any version of Tyson. He is simply a bad matchup for him.

 

agree 100%
this post could end the thread. Lewis could also realistically lose a decision like many other tyson opponents did simply due to being too tenative and never getting out of survival mode against peak tyson.

 

No, he didn't. That version got hit too much, and that's not good at all considering his chin and Tyson's power.

 

Lewis' chin is underrated and Tyson's power overrated - the latter is not my opinion but Tyson said it himself. He said many times that he was not a bing puncher but he was fast and ferocious and that made people think he was punching harder than he actually did. As for Lewis' chin - he withstand much worse punches from Mercer, Briggs or Klitschko than what got him down against McCall and Rahman. The timing of those punches were very on point. It had nothing to do with chin. No matter how good your chin is, if anyone over 200 lbs of bodyweight can land cleanly, you go down. There's no amount of heart or chin that overwrites basic human physiology - your nervous system just shuts down and there's nothing you can do about it. Some have better punch resistance, some have worse, but any HWs carry enough power to knock anyone out cold if their timing and accuracy is right.

 

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You don't need to convince me my friend however getting your facts right should be very high on your list of priorities as your original comment was not very believable