Which win was better Tyson ko4 Holmes or Lewis ko4 Rahman

you also have to consider the fact that tyson is the only man to ever knock holmes out

 

I know. Tyson was simply a better fighter than Holmes.

 

Nah. Lewis beats both of them, though he'd have more problems with that young, brilliant version of tyson.

 

Homles was way past his prime by then. Keep in mind that there was no PEDs then

 

Old Holmes was ten times the fighter Rahman was.

 

i doubt it:good

 

Staying on topic, I'll pose this simple queston: did Holmes ever lose to a journeyman like Rahman while in his prime?

End of discussion?atsch

 

What an argument! And the thumbs up gives it that certain je ne sais quo it would have otherwise lacked. :smoke

 

:bbb I said the same thing in the favourite KO thread!

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5850991&postcount=5

 

A young Tyson would have killed a young Lewis. Watching Lewis fumble his way through defenses against guys like Frank Bruno or Tony Tucker is proof enough for me....Lewis was a late bloomer, pure and simple. When he was young he was a big athletic guy who had a great right hand and a shakey chin. Again, look at the Bruno fight. His jab was non-existent. He used it as a probing range-finder. It wasn't until he teamed up with Manny that he realized that he could use his left hand to actually dictate the pace of the fight and make things easy on himself.

 

Tyson, on the other hand, was a much more mature fighter much younger. He easily beat guys like Bonecrusher Smith, Larry Holmes and Tyrell Biggs while he was still in his early twenties. Sorry, but Lewis could not have done that. He may have won all those bouts, but it wouldn't have been easy for him.

 

Rahmon's KO of Lewis was better than both.

 

What he said

 

i cant be asked to be fair to have an arguement so we will leave it there:good

 

The thing that many may not realise is that Holmes had RETIRED long before the Tyson fight and came out of a lengthy retirement with NO tune up fights in order to take the Tyson fight. He was well past his effective best, but if he'd had time for a few warm-up fights he no doubt would have done better.

Holmes said himself in his book that he knew he had no hope of beating Tyson under those circumstances but that the money they offered him was so great that he couldn't say no.