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

Not in the fight I saw he shouldn't have been. Seems to me he recovered pretty well, don't you think?

As far as Tyson goes, I'm about a year older than him, so I watched all his fights, and I use to think the same thing, especially after he beat Spinks, but time has allowed me to put this in better perspective. Tyson was a monster in his prime, but everyone can be beat..even Tyson, hell before Tyson they said the exact same thing about Foreman, til he got in the ring with Ali.

 

Bad style matchup for Mike. Lennox was always too big for him, although the Tyson who fought Biggs might have been able to break him down to the body and then knock him out.

 

If you participate in one of the most boring fights ever aka the fat one trick pony Tua and are playing it safe because your chin is not up to par, are afraid , again because of your chin, to finish a crying crackhead despite said combatant did not throw any leather or get wobbled by a freaking lame ass jab administered by borderline journeyman Rahman in the the rematch.........you ain't knocking out a motivated properly trained and hungry fresh not washed up past prison Tyson, not even close, win a decision maybe but KO no way Jose.

LOL, love the Stewart begging and screaming "you got a dead man in here finish him off" and big bad Lemmie still did not pull the trigger against the shell of a shell Tyson impersonator in their actual fight................yeah, big bad Lemmie, he is about as hystericlly over rated and hyped up as the other big bad guy, Sonny "Two times quit" Liston.

The parallel is similar to WK/Lemmie, let them fight from range, use the jab, tie up when up close, play it safe, impose your game........typical Stewart chin protector recipe for questionable wiskers..............but put them in a dog fight up close with no breathing room, make them over commit and fight instead of slowing the pace they look very very vulnerable , see the Sanders or Mercer fights, anf that what a Tyson would bring.....reacting without thinking, the Stewart fighters trained nightmare.

BTW, a lot has been made up in regards to Lemmies uppercut, let me just make it clear, I can f**king guarantee that Tyson takes Lemmie best uppercut and keeps on going but Lemmie ain't taking Tyson best uppercut, not even once without going to sleep for the 50 count. Fact.

 

Sauhund, you've made some good points. The best Lewis could do is make it a boring fight. Mike's work rate will allow him to win on points if Lennox decides to play it safe. There's no way Tyson is NOT going to touch his chin. SIZE IS NOT MATTER:deal

 

lewis has as much of a chance as an ice cube does in a fire.
Tyson ko3

 

That's cause he almost broke his hand and was getting customized to the pain for a couple of rounds..why don't you actually learn something before spewing this crap.

If you're going to knock Lewis fine have at it, but use facts, not pure hatred when doing so.

 

I take Lewis. Styles.

Size, jabs, and big punchers bothered Tyson. Lewis was all three, and on top of that, a master at the clinch. Tyson would, at times, get complacent and allow tie-ups, even in his prime.

Style match up favors Lewis, but itd be dangerous.

 

So let me get this straight......he did ALMOST brake his hand but in all actuallity he did not...lol....if those are your "facts" than I am sure you are a firm believer in the following Von Der Boxing Fan"facts" lol

He lost against McCracken because he took him lightly, had a poor trainer and could have continued was it not for the stupid referee....

He lost against Rahman because he was not focused, not used to the altitude and Filming took a lot out of him.....

Was fat, unmotivated and undertrained when he got a lucky break in the VK fight and after stalling the rematch rather retired instead of facing said foe again because "he had nothing to prove anymore"................

LOL, I love your "Facts"..............

 

the question is could LL do a buster?not so sure

 

lewis was lucky to get the decision over a flat footed 35 year old ray mercer how anyone can fancy him to beat a 21 year old tyson is beyond me if mccall and rahman could ko lewis with one punch god help him against peak tyson the only version of tyson lewis beats is the poorly trained faded post prison one .

 

Waste of time responding..

 

Resurrecting this back to life in time for Friday The 13th :dead

 

See this is why it's hard having a discussion with some member of the board. They think name calling has some value.

Anyway, the reason this is a fact is because it came straight from the mouth of Lewis himself, and if you were actually paying attention to what he says, you'd know this. So I'm assuming that if he said he hurt his hand during the fight and couldn't use it for a couple of rounds it's very likely to be true.

Outside of a doctor confirming it I don't know why anyone wouldn't take it at face value unless they had an ulterior agenda.

Meanwhile your so called facts amount to name calling..so if you want to discuss this intelligently grow up and acquire some debating skills.

 

Lewis should have fought more aggressively against both Holyfield and Tyson. He had relics of both of them in front of him, and he fought very passive and cautious. He waited till he completely wore Tyson out physically by leaning on him before he went for the kill. He came into the Holyfield fight with his kidney belt pulled up to his chin and ran for the majority of the fight.

Lewis was very wary of getting knocked out and knew the impact on his legacy would be monstrous.

 

I'm not completely disagreeing, but as mentioned in my post above, Lewis claimed he hurt his right hand in the Tyson fight and couldn't put power into it for a couple of rounds til he got use to the pain. I have no reason to doubt this. As for Holyfield I though he did well in the first fight, not as well in the second. But personally I'm not one to turn victories into losses.

He found away to win both fights and that's what matters. Some fighters, Lewis being one of them, often fight to the level of their competition and it's hard to know how he would have fought if he thought he was behind on the cards and didn't have control of the fight.

It happens in many sports. So it's hard to take any single performance and extrapolate it into anything meaningful.

Besides that, some fighters like Tyson care how they win, other fighters, are simply happy to win while taking the least amount of risk possible. Lewis was obviously in that second camp.