Tyson-Lewis

Tyson was still decent, but was getting old and past his prime; he didn't have the discipline and killer instinct of his younger days. Lewis was old too but much closer to his prime than Mike.

Some people dismiss this fight because they feel a younger Tyson would have beat Lewis, or at least put up a better fight.

The rest of the people, the ones who do not dismiss the win, feel that Lewis would beat up any version of Tyson, young or old

 

Tyson was shot, he fought very few rounds in the 2 or 3 years before the fight, all his oppostion in those 5 kos where 2nd rate fighters! including lou saverese and julius francis! dont know who the **** brian neisen is but it still took tyson 7 rounds to get rid of him and havent heard from him since! andrew golota and botha are the only half decent fighters tyson fought and stuggled with botha for 5 rounds then finished him with one punch! not great preperation for a fight with the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world is it????????

 

I think Lewis does get a little too much credit for beating Tyson. But......

Tyson wanted no part of Lewis during the mid-90's, and paid $4m stepaside money to swerve the fight.

Iron Mike was Sodium Mike by this point, having not beaten a top class name since being owned twice by Holyfield - who was in turn owned twice by Lewis.

It must be said though that Lewis was past his own prime by the time this fight happened, albeit not nearly as much as Tyson.

Styles make fights - peak Lewis >>> peak Tyson all day long.

 

Well Brian Nielsen was a danish heavyweight, but most of his weight was fat, and he was no way near the top heavyweight contenders... so the fact that Tyson did not demolish him like in olden times just proves how past prime he really was

 

i think he had better wins, but it was a name Lewis NEEDED to get.

There were still plenty of people picking Tyson to win...atsch

 

Similar to those jokers picking Holyfield to beat Valuev, or Jones to beat Calzaghe.

Living in the past!!

 

I gave him very little credit at the time for beating Tyson. Tyson was shot at that point and the outcome was never in doubt.

The only thing that sold the matchup at all were the legions of Tyson fans that don't follow boxing otherwise and had no idea how faded their hero really was.

The Lewis beatdown of Tyson was very easy to predict.

 

lewis deserves credit.

its always important to understand how a fight was assessed BEFORE it took place and not AFTER it took place.

many boxing experts tipped tyson to win this fight.

the bookies had it pretty close.

it was a good win.

the people who tip a fighter to win a fight before it happens and then turn round and call the same fighter 'shot' straight after it happens are the biggest wankers walking the planet.

too many people want to discredit fighters for there wins. if predicting fights was so easy then everyone on this forum would be a millionaire by now.

 

It's not his best ever, not even top 5 I'd argue, but it's a good win and it's an important fight all round.

It was one of those 'end of an era' fights. Everyone that was everyone from the 80s and 90s was either retired or deeply in decline.

It's kind of bigger than what actually happened in the ring.

 

It was a under par performance from Lennox Lewis, and he still owned Mike Tyson.

 

how many good heavyweights have tyson beat anyway?

I agree that tyson was way past his prime, but Lewis would ve beaten tyson in his prime too..

Tyson is probably the most overated fighter all time p4p

 

Tyson's heyday was late 80s. He was amazing then. He had the discipline, the reflexes, the power, the talent and the sanity -- all of which began seeping away after his defeat to Buster '90. Just before that fight, and continuing afterward, Tyson began making fewer headlines about his indestructibility and more about his volatile behavior inside and outside the ring.

Tyson Ca. 1988? I'd put him in there with almost anyone.

Still a good win for Lewis. He's a good guy with a slightly flawed defense and all the skils to make him the best heavyweight in the late 90s-early 2000s.

 

It was the biggest fight of Lewis' career and probably the most anticipated fight of this millennium.


Tyson wasn't the fighter he was in the 80's, but he was still a power puncher with fast hands who scored a lot of early knockouts over guys like Golota, Botha, Nielsen and Savarese.

Mind you, Lewis was hardly a spring chicken himself at 36, and just got knocked out by Rahman, so that's why the odds were close to even going into the fight. Think about that when saying it was a mismatch, which in hindsight it was.

 

he getst no credit from me, probably a worthy contender on paper but compared to his prime he was nothing