Comparing Tyson and Lewis' competition

jdp000109 - You're right, it does surpass Mike's. But, the Tyson myth is so prevalent in some people's minds, that no evidence will convince them.

Was Tyson great? I think so. Was he also a well-hyped, carefully matched front runner? Oh, yeah.

Lennox, for all his flaws, fought almost all of the best of his era. And he beat the only man with a comparable resume (Holy).

 

I am so sick of hearing this typical hater **** from from key board warriors who never boxed a day in thier life saying all you have to do is fight back and Tyson will fold, Tyson was challenged many times in his youth by Tillis, Tucker, Bruno( first fight) Rudduck and Botha post prison and he won those fights.

 

Very Fair post, I agree.

 

atsch carefully matched protected fighters don't become ATGs who clear out the HW division genius.

 

Yeah he wouldn't have any problems losing to Evander Holyfield. :roll:

 

Pac KO 1

 

Pure BS you are stating this to make Vitaly look better, overall I would say LL's resume is slightly better but not better by a wide margin and Joe Louis has way better resume than both IMO.

 

atsch

 

I would definitely say Joe Louis has the better resume than Lennox Lewis....should I compare the two?

 

Yes pls.

 

Agree with everything you said but I need to add that Lewis' level of opposition was far better than Tyson and in that account, should put Lewis far higher than Tyson in the ATG list.

 

Actualy WBOGUS doesn't count which why LL never had it either, he had the IBOGUS belt.

 

Everything I said was true LL has the better resume but not by a wide margin and Joe Louis has the best resume ever.

 

You are severely underrating Tyson's reign in the 80's he had beat alot of good fighters like Tucker, Bruno, Holmes and Spinks en route to clearing out the division.

 

No I am not. But everybody knows that the 90s HW division was far deeper than the 80s.