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In Part I, we weaved in and out of the parallel careers of Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis to see just how clear it was that Lewis would always beat Tyson. In Part II we will look at the series of events that exploded in 2001, and gave us confirmation that Lewis would win their clash. [details]
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This guy really doesn't like Tyson or really loves Lewis. -
Lewis fought a way past prime Mike Tyson who had been layed off way to much throught the 90s to come close to having the same skills as in his prime.
Mike's prime was 1986 to 1988Comment
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The first part of the article was a huge pile of crap. There is no need for this hack of a "writer" to rehash this garbage.Comment
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Great post (Both of Them)
I'm a huge Tyson fan and find it very hard not to agree with what your saying but I suppose as a tyson fan I can always hold onto the "what if" Lewis met Tyson in his prime scenario....Comment
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I actually like Tyson and Lewis and have clearly watched them both fight a good deal. It is an opinion.
Ultimately Tyson had the physical gifts some would die for yet it was easier for him to throw his career away and follow the crowd than it was for him to knuckle down and make the most out of his ability.
Lewis gets censored for being steady but he made more out of his gifts than Tyson did and there is a lot to be said for that.
I defend Pt I on this forum and had some good banter with Tyson fans from the 'Boxers of the past' forum (I think Mr Anthrax made the same point in that strand and was unable to expand on it construtively in the way the other Mike fans did). Some dismiss the article as a piece of crap, cut in half by an unfortunate clench. That is fair enough. For my defence all I can say is that I spent an awful lot of time watching/reading about Mike and his fights over a period stretching back to when I was 9 years old, I do know him and his fights, I just don't rate him highly on that basis. I refuse to rate guys like Marciano down for what they achieved and bump Mike up for what may have been.Comment
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I love Lewis (and Tyson for that matter), but he didn't break the mystique.
Douglas really broke it, proving he was human and beatable, and then Holyfield shattered it forever, proving he was very beatable if you had a chin and didn't back down.Comment
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Good point. I just felt that Mike's actions in fight II with Evander gained him a little bit of the fear factor back. The act was crazy but for a lot of people Mike was beginning to get shots off in round 2. They think Holyfield then resported to butting.
Even though he lost to Evander I don't think his image had gone down so much that fighters like Danny Williams (oddly Francis got his Tyson fight through his win over Danny) or Kevin McBride.
Tyson losing to McBride was sad.Comment
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I thought the same thing watching that second Holyfield fight. I thought Mike was starting to land more, and when he did the biting and people were talking about he was scared to lose again and was taking a whooping, I was wondering what they were watching.
It was a competitive fight, thought it was still very early when all this went down.Comment
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