1996-Tyson vs Lewis - What would have happened?

Clearly a shitload smarter than you - if career path is a reliable indicator. And it is.

So you were 16 at the time. Chances are you weren't even following the sport at the time. That is evidenced by your long history of blatant reliance on Boxrec as the be-all end-all. :rofl

You have jack **** firsthand knowledge of the period in question. Like I said, this is just a transparent attempt to stir ****. When Tyson finally grew a pair and faced the music he got pounded in a brutal, one-sided beatdown. That's what we have on file that is real and verifiable. How much prestige did Tyson give away by ducking Lewis to face Bruce Seldon? Maybe Tyson would have fought Lewis - but King wouldn't allow it. And not one of us knows what strings would have been attached even if King had taken that huge risk with his mega cash cow.

If you think this was some clearcut, simple case then you need to get up to speed. Start here and filter the clearly pro-Tyson bias that is self-evident:

http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/wbc10-7.htm

At the end of the day Lennox Lewis is the one who was ducked by Bowe, Holyfield, and Tyson when it mattered most to every one of them. Anyone who suggests that he wasn't a "name" at the time has **** for brains. He had a name and he had a reputation as one of the top 4 HW's in the world. The other three men knew exactly who he was and what he was capable of in the ring.

 

lewis would have koed the weak chined moorer very quick and we know that foreman would not have got in the ring with lewis at that stage of his career. Then we have chicken bowe who wouldn't fight lewis and would rather throw his belt in the bin than take the challenge.

 

]"It's very ironic that while Lewis sought an opportunity to fight Tyson, and succeeded in forcing him to relinquish the title due a court's ruling, he apparently never had the ability to accept the fight because of his exclusive promotional agreement with HBO."[/

I have no problem comprehending the text in that link Widdow. This is the sort of stuff I meant when I said ELABORATE on the situation and give more details on the offer and why Lewis declined :yep:good

 

He can't give details on things he knows nothing about.

 

to get more money out of the deal, i would have thought a guy with his own business would understand simple business practise :rofl

 

This somehow assumes Lewis was a fortune teller, because it's clearly a hindsite view of things. At the time he accepted the $4M to step aside so that Tyson could fight Sheldon, he thought he was going to be next in line. Had he thought otherwise and known what the future held, he likely would have made a different decision.

Needless to say there would have been considerable pressure put on him to allow Tyson to earn, what also amounted to a free payday.

Of course all this is moot, if HBO disallowed the fight to begin with, which given the $$$ involved seems like a strange decision, unless the fight was going to be shown on a different network.

 

Lewis inside 10 rounds.

 

"Personal"??? Actually you're the one that did that with the "not very smart" comments. If you want to see how much farther you've fallen behind me in the past three years just say the word.

While we're on the topic, what's the name of your landscaping firm? And don't just desperately pick a name at random from the Martin's Ferry yellow page entries - all two companies.

Your comments on this topic are bull****. Bred of ignorance and bias. What else could we expect from someone who perpetuated a bald-faced lie about a "headbutt" in the Kitschko bout for several hundred pages and then passed it off as a "joke" after being beaten as bloody as VITLAY? :rofl

Must be gut wrenching to start an antagonistic thread and then get completely schooled by people with real knowledge of the subject matter.

 

Hey Van, great to see you're stil around and educating the ignorant contingent at ESB.

 

The Golota fight was pretty sweet.

 

Hey Window - you're 29. The year in question was 1996. I make that to be 13 years ago. Please tell me you don't get 16 out of those numbers.

Bottom line? You're basing the usual crap agenda on ZERO knowledge. :yep

 

or do what was meant to happen get the 4 million and then do exactly what you have just said and get all that cash plus 4 million which was the idea.