88 Mike Tyson vs 97 Lennox Lewis and 81 Larry Holmes

I think the best version of Lennox (take your pick) still beats the best version of Tyson.

Not sure about Holmes either way, so I gave Mike the benefit of the doubt w/ my vote.

 

I think Tyson beats Lewis but might lose to Holmes.

 

Tyson is going to drop one of those

 

He could win both and he could lose both

 

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Crazy how much credit Lennox gets for beating the 80s champion in the 2000s or men who KO'd him.

I would have thought a more prime lar would get the nod.


Lennox Lewis waited for Mike and Evander to age out. There's no ****ing way he fights a prime Tyson. He ages out tyson in every era.

 

I favor Tyson, but honestly don't know. I think Lewis has the best chance at victory

 

Tyson KO8 Holmes
Lewis KO8 Tyson

 

This is simply cap and disingenous lmao

 

Lennox and Mike could have fought in 1996 but Tyson paid Lewis off the first time to fight Seldon and then dropped the belt to not fight him at all. Before that, the fight didn't make sense. Same with Holyfield - Evander was cought up with his Bowe trilogy, lost to Moorer, retired for a quick bit, was considered washed, after that he fought Tyson and Moorer. Lewis in the meanwhile lost to McCall and had to rebuild as well, so it's hard to imagine the scenario when they fight between 1992 and 1998. Especially, since Holyfield didn't know if he wanted to continue boxing after the second Bowe bout when they had a chance of unifying:

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/30/...ing-holyfield-lewis-a-go.html?ref=lennoxlewis

So saying he aged these guys out is just a lie. Not to mention he was older than Tyson.

 

This. I would say he loses to both but could be exactly the opposite.

 

That's a sweet write up and I'm not saying that with any antagonism. It's hard to translate in text so I figured just tell the homie you mean it. Especially since the majority of what i've to say will be less kind.

This assumes quite a bit about my stance based on a line. How are you so sure I give any shits about the Bowe years or 96 in reference to Lewis aging Tyson and Evander out? How are you so sure you said anything contrary to anything I had prepared should one challenge my opinions?

Seems a bit eager and through said eager beaverness; stupid. Silly. Childish.

The final thing before I properly address this assertion is the lies line. Just, why? That's really just shitty framing. We can disagree, I can be wrong about facts, whatever, where TF is the lie? I have seen this prior but it is the first time one of you have come for me with this claim. Bro, I told no lies, my opinion of a situation can't be a lie and attacking me personally like that is nothing short of small, immature, and intellectually disingenuous. Yes I did say if you mean to speak like that take your punk ***** ass to a mirror ya wee cocked attention slut. Don't attack me so and expect me to just prove you wrong. It was unwarranted and down right shitty of you to do.


Calling me a liar simply because you disagree with my takeaway before you even find out the details of my position... I don't actually need to follow that line up with anything. I can let it float there like the turd it is.




Now I'll address your Bull**** you think matters to me:

96 is a decade after Tyson was champion. It's quite possible, given they were all amateurs through the 80s, it is possible I'm speaking to actions taken prior to any of them being champions. It may be, the fact, that ol Lenny waited until after Mike was already champion to turn pro despite age and experience. Might have more to do with **** like that than a decade late notion of fairness. You might know more and I might be more willing to get into those weeds had you asked a mother ****er, or told me what you told me without ending it with a line that says I must be knowingly writing propaganda.


Only one of us is writing one sided stories that conveniently forgets the actions and timelines of the principles. But call me a liar from your shitty glass house that never produced anything but an opinion.


Speaking of conveniently forget, if I'm a liar for Lennox waiting years before he even started any attempt to fight Tyson then Lennox must have lied too when he gave a post fight interview that says Mike was impossible to beat in his prime but Lennox aged like wine? Evander also gave plenty of interviews where he acknowledges prime Mike was too much.

But they're just being nice doe? Lennox Lewis debuts the year Tyson is undisputed. Lennox Lewis is a year older. But I write lies so whatevs bro. Not even really worth getting into with you. Tell me about ****ing 1996 like you know something.

 

There is something wrong with the culture here. These sort of responses should be disgusting.

You call yourself a grown ass man do ya?

 

You wrote a whole bunch of nothing bro. You're too emotional. Assuming Lennox aged out Tyson, just because he turned pro after he achieved the success he was chasing (olympic gold medal) is a definition of taking your assumption coming from your bias as a fact. And you are biased against Lewis which showed in multiple threads on this forum. WBA Regular belt for example. LOL.

What are the facts? Lennox turned pro in 1988. 3 years after Tyson being almost a year older than him. He didn't have the management team to get him through the ranks as quick as Tyson did. He wasn't a worthy contender for the championship until 1992. Mike lost the crown in 1990. He spent 1990 and 1991 aiming at reclaiming the title, so he wouldn't fight Lennox then. Why would he? His aim was Holyfield. After that, he r*ped a model and went to prison. So REALISTICALLY the earliest they could have met was 1996. That's when Mike paid Lewis off and then dropped the belt. It wasn't Lewis' fault that they didn't fight then.

So how exaclty did Lennox age Mike out?

Same thing with Evander - I clearly showed you that there was no option of them fighting before 1998 because of how both of these fighters careers went. By no fault of their own.

So again, how exaclty did Lennox age Evander out?

Their careers went the way they went and they just didn't fight when YOU think they should have. But claiming Lennox intentionally aged them out is ridiculous and ingenuine. The timelines don't add up.