Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson, prime for prime, who wins?

Kally mother is a honourable woman.

Wash your mouth out you ****.

 

Rooney would have never allowed Tyson to train like he did for Douglas.

 

Sangria, I agree with your assessment of '80s and '90s heavyweights.

I see the Eighties big boys --starting with Larry Holmes-- as progeny of Muhammad Ali: the good jab (Thomas, Berbick), the sticking and moving (Tucker, Tubbs), the emphasis on skills in general (Greg Page), the lither bodies. But they lacked the sustained focus.

The Nineties crew I see as children of Mike Tyson. Tyson burst onto the scene as perhaps the most impressively-muscled great heavyweight champion ever. I believe young heavyweights everywhere endeavored to emulate him: the muscled physique (thanks to steroids and newly-accepted weight training); the emphasis on power and big punches. Great dynamite in the '90s! But skills could befuddle these guys, as grandpa Holmes demonstrated with Mercer, and Lennox Lewis in rising above the pack.

 

It wasnt always Lewis out skilling them. More often than not he was KOing these big boys .

 

I'm very VERY late to this thread but IMO this is hands down a Tyson victory - 21 year old Tyson had way way to much intensity for Lennox Lewis IMO - the other day I watched Tyson-Tucker and Lewis-Tucker side by side on youtube and the difference was striking to say the least - Lennox Lewis was very pedestrian versus an old washed up Tucker- both men were very very one paced (and very similar in their approach and boxing ability- and that was the young Lewis) in that fight to the point where the crowd was booing - Tyson-Tucker was by contrast a really fast and frenetic buzz of Tucker darting around the ring fast - twice (maybe three times) as fast as the one in the Lewis fight (who was still matching the young Lewis) and Tyson was on him chasing him and smashing him with hooks real venomous - the action in the Tyson-Tucker fight in the window on the left of my screen looked almost speeded up in comparison with the shuffling pawing jab stuff in the Lewis-old Tucker fight in the window on the right - it was no contest watching it like that Lewis wouldn't of lived with the young Tyson

 

Yes, but his better skills allowed him to get them before his own chin was cracked.

Lewis was a savvy operator. He didn't just put his head down and swing away for his wins.

 

True, Rooney also wouldn't have allowed Tyson to wait in front of Douglas & present a stationary target with ragged defence, while obsessively looking to only land "one big headhunting bomb".

 

Thanks for the support, damn right she is.

I doubt "combatesboxeo" has a human mother, just a filthy sow.

 

what a joke

 

Thanks Prime. I happen to share that opinion with a few others on here. Excellent assessment on the 80's guys as progeny of Ali and the 90's guys as the children of Tyson. Never thought of it that way.

 

hiii my boy rockysplit:happy
wait don´t tell me....I will guess... but marciano would ko they both tyson and lewis, right? my little friend?:happy



(remember, foreman would make marciano and tyson his bitches in 2 rounds):happy:hi:

 

for me one of the most pertinent fights is the one that i remember tyson as being at his most violently persuassive, against tyrell bigs..now im not saying bigs was in lewis class, but he weas no mug, and as stated elsewhere, he wasnt petrified of tyson, and he was a big, athletic boxer with a decent jab and good power..but tyson had an axe to grind with biggs and gave him a surgical, sustained beating....it was tyson at his brutal best....i reckon he could have taken biggs out but instead engaged in the sort of game a malevolent cat plays with a mouse, it was, and remains, an artisitically brutal exampe of just how good tyson could be.....

 

Tucker was pretty worthless by this time. Didnt use his footwork like he did in the past. He became more of a stationary fighter, but when he was at his best he was pretty light for how tall he was. He fought in the 210-220 range and thats pretty light for a guy thats 6'5". He never saw anything close to that weight again after the Tyson fight.

 

This was the one fight that defied the myth that Tyson loses steam as the fight wears on. It was a shining example of Tyson getting stronger and stronger with each passing round.

Biggs was humbled, hurt and never the same afterwards.

Tyson later alluded to that fact that he could have stopped him in the 3rd round but carried him a few extra rounds to punish him.