Jeff_lacy_ko wrote: ↑08 Aug 2021, 16:02
There was hype.. it was an event. Lewis winning was near certainity for anyone who followed boxing
That is what everyone says now. I thought Lewis would win, though I gave Tyson an outside punchers chance. Tyson had not fought anyone decent in several years by then. However, I remember being on a boxing chatroom and for months leading up to the fight there were a lot of people who thought Tyson would win. I remember making the comment that the best fighter Tyson had beat since fighting Holyfield was Frans Botha. The worst fighter that Lewis had fought in that time was.... Frans Botha. However, I remember being on a boxing chatroom and there were a lot of people who thought Tyson would win.
The ko loss to Rahman was only a year before this. A lot of people were saying that Lewis had a glass jaw; as if Tyson would have just walked through the punch that knocked out Lewis.
Jeff_lacy_ko wrote: ↑08 Aug 2021, 16:02
There was hype.. it was an event. Lewis winning was near certainity for anyone who followed boxing
That is what everyone says now. I thought Lewis would win, though I gave Tyson an outside punchers chance. Tyson had not fought anyone decent in several years by then. However, I remember being on a boxing chatroom and for months leading up to the fight there were a lot of people who thought Tyson would win. I remember making the comment that the best fighter Tyson had beat since fighting Holyfield was Frans Botha. The worst fighter that Lewis had fought in that time was.... Frans Botha. However, I remember being on a boxing chatroom and there were a lot of people who thought Tyson would win.
The ko loss to Rahman was only a year before this. A lot of people were saying that Lewis had a glass jaw; as if Tyson would have just walked through the punch that knocked out Lewis.
Yeah for sure tyson had believers until the end and lewis wasnt unbeatable.
British bookmaker William Hill have cut their odds on Mike Tyson beating Lennox Lewis in next month's world heavyweight title fight after taking a bet for 10,000 pounds ($14,530) on the American to win.
The bookmaker, who recently took a wager of 2,700 pounds on Lewis to win, shortened Tyson's odds from 2-1 to 7-4 for the June 8 fight in Memphis.
Lewis remains hot favorite at 2-5, having been as short as 4-11.
The 10,000-pound bet, the largest ever placed on Tyson in Britain, was made in a branch in Liverpool.
Hills also offer odds of 14-1 for a first round victory for Tyson with Lewis at 25-1 to do the same. Lewis is 3-1 to win on points with Tyson 14-1.
Wee Tommy wrote: ↑25 Jul 2021, 18:32
Manny was screaming at a timid Lewis to open up. That’s what I remember most about the fight. Tyson was a ghost of his former self.
i remember that yelling real well from Emmanuel "you got a dead man in front of you quite playing with this guy before you get caught with some s, get this mf'er out of here and lets go home"
It was a big event, definitely not so much a great fight. Doesn't do a whole lot to help Lewis' overall record, doesn't hurt it obviously, but doesn't boost it much if at all. Good name to have on the resume though, and a lot of money for it. Which is what it's ultimately all about for the fighters involved, but yeah not a fight worth revisiting too often.
I just remember paying about 65 dollars (which I couldnt afford anyway)
to watch it on pay per view
and not being particularly excited even before the bout started,
I watched this the other day, I liked the comment Ian Darke made about the security “you could have George Bush v Sadam Hussein on the undercard and they wouldn’t have this much security”!!! Commentators these days don’t have the same verbal skills, I also watched Holyfield v Cooper last week and Larry Merchant came out with “Holyfield uses the jab well but for Cooper the Jab is just a rumour” brilliant!!
Big event, considered by many a pick em going in, but as the fight played out it was clear Tyson was old, slow, out of shape and just didn't have the right attitude.
Lewis was fighting for something Tyson achieved 15 years earlier while Lennox was still an amateur. Had Lewis turned pro after the 84 Olympics his chin would have doomed him to be just another Tyson quickie.
Billy Tully wrote: ↑28 Dec 2021, 17:27
Big event, considered by many a pick em going in, but as the fight played out it was clear Tyson was old, slow, out of shape and just didn't have the right attitude.
Lewis was fighting for something Tyson achieved 15 years earlier while Lennox was still an amateur. Had Lewis turned pro after the 84 Olympics his chin would have doomed him to be just another Tyson quickie.
Depends on how Lewis would have been tracked. Anyway, his chin being bad is a myth, the problem is in the other thing. We definitely know, that Lewis has eventually become a near perfect operator after teaming up with Steward. It's impossible to say, how his career would go with an earlier start. If it would started in the mid 80s with someone like Pepe Correa, Lewis could be stopped by Tyson.
