We'll never know, but prime lennox coulda handled anyone. Besr in mind they peaked at different times. Tydon younger, lewis older. Lewis's resume is far better thsn tysons. Just accept it. If lewis was American you'd all be saying hes the greatest ever@JotimThingadane-eq3dt
@@tomgentry5987 Just accept that the Mike Ironman Tyson of 1985-1988 is unbeatable and whether ur a Lewis, Bowe, Holyfield, Foreman, Ali ,Frazer etc nobody beats that version of Mike Tyson. What affected Mike Tyson negatively was Don king and Robin Givens and if Tyson was with CusDMato and Kevin Rooney for a longer time he was going to be undefeated and invincible
@@JotimThingadane-eq3dtMichael had great style but never improved after 1988, all his opponents were alot older maybe two were younger. Once he met skill and resistance he was taking the distance or beat. He avoided not only the biggest rematch in boxing history also the top men Bowe Tua Morrison Foreman Ibeabuchi Mercer both Klitschko's Mcall etc ....he chose names like McNeely Mathis and people applaud. Regardless who trained him after fighting older lesser grades so he looked good would have made no difference once his youth was gone he relied on power not skill.
17:54 "And I just do get the feeling that Lionel Butler is losing his appetite for this contest" It was his appetite before the contest that lost it for him.
Don King throws another awkward fighter against Lewis. King never got over Lewis rejecting a Don King contract. King did everything he could to ruin Lewis but failed to stop Lewis unifying the titles.
Butler was an elimination bout for the WBC, though upon winning Lewis found himself frozen out & had to beat Morrison & Mercer before being given another chance.
@@BoxingFightsByGaryWilson I believe Ray Mercer was a Don King fighter which I guess is why Mercer never fought Mike Tyson. Mercer gave Holyfield and Lewis serious concern. I always thought King protected Tyson from Mercer. Would have been an epic fight between those two.
Tyson was due to fight Mercer in 2002 but Lewis issued a lawsuit to stop the bout from going ahead, citing a possible injury may put their proposed fight in jeopardy. Lewis was aware Mercer may beat Tyson which is probably why the fight was shelved.@@mazza4190
@@BottleBri It wasn't a motivation thing that stopped Mike. Or a drug or money thing, what stopped Mike Tyson was ability. We read people think he was great because he became the youngest Heavyweight Champion. People over the years have taken that to mean he was a great champion, when he never was? ... Why? Because great champions win their belts against great champions as opposition. We NEVER claim any boxer as a great, when they've ducked other boxers? How can they be a great while knowing that? Tyson ducked both Lewis while he was Champion, and he ducked Riddick Bowe completely. Yet both of whom nobody could even begin to argue with were much better than Mike Tyson ever was. And Tyson ducked both??. How can you call him anything like great knowing that? It's commonly known as bullshit. Lewis beat every man he faced in the ring? Everybody. No man can lay claim to have beaten Lewis, as the two that did, both got beaten up in the rematch. Rahman got brutally beaten up by Lewis after disrespecting him, and McCall burst into tears in his rematch. What we find looking back over Mikes career was a career that was entirely fabricated by Don King. He had Mike in good shape and saw a chance for the WBC world Title against Trever Berbick (who isn't a great boxer), who had just won the WBC title from Pinklon Thomas 8 months earlier. King then saw James Smith (who isn't a great boxer) beat Tim Witherspoon to win the WBA world title and straight away wanted Mike to face him. Mike won the IBF world title against Tony Tucker (who isn't a great boxer) and who had just won it from a fat Buster Clueless. He won his WBC title again, by Don King getting the WBC to bypass Lennox Lewis (who was the mandatory for Frank Bruno's WBC title he had just won from McCall) and the WBC gave Mike Tyson the first chance at the title held by Frank Bruno when that should have been Lewis. Then after Lewis had sued Tyson for not fighting him, and won his case. Don King paid Lewis about $4 mill to let Tyson fight Seldon (who isn't a great boxer) for the WBA world title, with Tyson agreeing to fight Lewis next if he won. But as so not to face Lewis, Tyson dumped his WBC world title, and fought Holyfield losing his WBA title. So the tale of the tape when we take away all the lies, and all the American casual's bullshit is very clear. Mike Tyson won every title he held from bums, and lost them to a not very good Douglas, and Holyfield. Mike won easy fights, then found himself at the top tier of the Heavyweights and was completely outclassed. Mike Tyson's entire career was a Don King put together career, that avoided all the better boxers and only put Mike against easy targets that would make Mike look good to the uneducated American public. And you have to give it to the corrupt scumbag Don King? He fooled an entire nation of boxing casuals LOL.
@@BottleBri Holyfield was so much better than Mike Tyson ever was. He is the first boxer in history to win a version of the heavyweight title four times. He was an undefeated Cruiserweight champion. Winning the title in only his 12th Pro fight? Unheard of for a non-gold medallist to win any title until after their 20th Pro fight? He did it in 12 fights? Making him one of boxing's finest fighters in the sports history? He moved up to Heavyweight and in the 25th fight of his career (only his 7th fight at that weight) he won the WBC - WBA - IBF titles from Buster Douglas. He is the man that beat Bowe, the only fighter to do so, though Bowe did beat him in the rematch. Bowe refused to fight Lewis, and that destroyed Bowe's legacy. If he had fought Lewis?, whichever of those two fighters won, they'd have been seen and named as one of the top 3 heavyweights of all time. Holyfield, like Lewis fought them all, he beat most, and did so much in the sport of boxing that he's an icon, a legend. A true boxing superstar. Yet very few if any Americans will understand this.
@@BottleBri One of the best fights we never got to see?, was Lewis vs Bowe. Both Bowe & Lewis had beaten everyone they had faced in the ring. No man can lay claim to beating either of them as Holyfield who did beat Bowe, got beaten by Bowe in a rematch, and Lewis beat the two that beat him, McCall and Rahman, in the rematch. Seeing Lewis brutally KOing Rahman for disrespecting him. If Bowe & Lewis had fought each other?, the winner would be recognized today as one of the best 3 boxers in the history of Heavyweight boxing. Yet they all talk about IRON Mike Tyson? Just Wow!
@@BottleBri LewIs would have knocked Ali out. Far to small. Lewis also had a granite chin, though again we'll read Americans claim he had a glass jaw LOL Because as I've said, casuals, that have no idea at all what level of boxing they're watching. CLUELESS About that.
@@BottleBri This was an eliminator for the WBC title but King made Lewis fight Morrison & Mercer as well, throwing everything he could in the hope that Lewis would lose..
Lewis beat every man he faced in the ring. Everybody. No man can lay claim to have beaten Lewis, as the two that did, both got beaten up in the rematch. Rahman got brutally beaten up by Lewis after disrespecting him, and McCall burst into tears in his rematch. We also do know how and why Lewis lost the two times he did. He admitted it himself, he was out making films like Oceans 11, not training or sparring for those two fights, he made the mistake of underrating his opponent. But man, he soon put both right? Lennox wanted to fight everyone, not only did he fight all that would fight him of his era, but in his last fight he took on a young Klitschko (who after being defeated by Lennox went on to dominate heavyweight boxing for the next decade at least). So not only did Lewis beat all from his own era, he also quit after beating the boxer who would dominate from then on. Lewis should be recognised globally as the greatest any of us have seen in our lifetimes, only he's not because of the USA's outright lying and making up boxing history, while hilariously trying to suggest Mike Tyson was some great former boxer?, when the truth about him is completely the opposite. Mike Tyson, when we look who he fought and beat, is truthfully nothing like a great heavyweight boxer, so far from great, it is insulting to read anyone call him anything other than a bang average boxer who was not top level, not elite level, and who beat nobody of any sort of distinction in boxing, he never beat a top tier boxer, a hall of fame boxer. Holmes came out of retirement to face Tyson for the money was nothing like the Holmes we all knew. Spinks was never really a Heavyweight, only a light heavyweight who fought Mike in his last fight, so we can't claim him to have been anything like the Spinks we saw long before. Mike Tyson, knocked over 30+ bums, then got to the top tier of heavyweights, got found out, and got beaten up. This is the reality, the truth. We also read the American's trying to say Lewis ducked Tyson? Yet again, it was the other way around, Tyson ducked both Lennox Lewis and Riddick Bowe. Bowe himself also ducked Lewis, yet Lewis ducked nobody, and wanted to fight them all, he fought all that would fight him, and beat every single one of them, yet we read endless RUBBISH and blatant outright lies about Mike Tyson? While these American people do all they can to not ever mention Lennox Lewis, and even Less Riddick Bowe? Yet both of whom nobody could even begin to argue were much much much better than Mike Tyson. And Tyson ducked both. How can you call him anything like great knowing that? It's commonly known as bullshit. On 31 October 1992, Lewis knocked out Canadian Donovan “Razor” Ruddock in two rounds for the number one contender's position in the WBC rankings. It was Lewis's most impressive win to date and established him as one of the world's best heavyweights. Sportscaster Larry Merchant declared, “We have a great new heavyweight.” The win over Ruddock made Lewis the mandatory challenger for Riddick Bowe's heavyweight championship. Bowe held a press conference during which he threw his WBC title belt in a rubbish bin, relinquishing it to avoid a mandatory defence against Lewis. On 14 December 1992, the WBC declared Lewis its champion, making him the first world heavyweight titleholder from Britain in the 20th century. Lewis defended the belt three times, defeating Tony Tucker, whom he knocked down for the first time in Tucker's career, and Frank Bruno and Phil Jackson by knockout. The Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno fight was the first time two British-born boxers fought for a version of the world heavyweight title in the modern era. Lewis lost his WBC title to Oliver McCall on 24 September 1994 in a huge upset at the Wembley Arena in London. In the second round, McCall landed a powerful right cross, putting Lewis on his back. Lewis returned to his feet at the count of six, but the referee highly controversially ended the fight, giving McCall the title by technical knockout. In his first comeback fight, Lewis was given a chance to fight for the mandatory challenger position within the WBC and won it by knocking out American contender Lionel Butler. However, at the behest of promoter Don King. The WBC bypassed him and gave Mike Tyson the first chance at the title recently won by Briton Frank Bruno from Oliver McCall. Bruno had previously lost to both Lewis and Tyson. Lewis had the number 1 contender's slot in the WBC rankings when he knocked out Australian Justin Fortune, then defeated former WBO Champion Tommy Morrison in October 1995, followed by Olympic gold medallist and former WBO champion Ray Mercer in May 1996. Lewis successfully sued to force Tyson to make a mandatory defence of the WBC title against him. Lennox accepted $4 million from Don King to step aside and allow Tyson to fight Bruce Seldon instead, (with a guarantee that if Tyson defeated Seldon, he would fight Lewis next). After winning the WBA title from Seldon, Tyson relinquished the WBC title to fight Evander Holyfield instead. Mike Tyson DUCKING Lennox Lewis. The WBC title was declared vacant. This set up a rematch between Lewis and McCall, who met on 7 February 1997 in Las Vegas for the WBC title. In one of the strangest fights in boxing history, McCall, who had lost the first three rounds, refused to box in the fourth and fifth rounds. He then began crying in the ring, forcing the referee to stop the fight and award Lewis the victory and the title. American's trying to recreate history with lies, is nothing new. They've been caught out doing it many times. How tragic and embarrassing that really is.
I remember watching this on BBC, think Grandstand. Methodical from Lewis, as opposed to absolutely devastating. Hmmm This may well be exactly what we see from AJ vs Ngannou. Although, i expect big Francis to turn up in much better shape than Lionel Butler did here...
I think it was Lewis being Lewis, he would often go through the motions & do just enough to win. Butler was considered dangerous & Lewis played it safe, waiting for the right moment. I figure AJ stops Ngannou, using the jab early on & steps it up, he's more heavy handed than Fury & will hurt Ngannou sufficiently, forcing a stoppage.
This was Lewis being somewhat cagey after the loss to McCall. Butler barely threw a punch for the whole of the 5th round and I think the referee was looking for an excuse to wave it off.
It took Lewis a while to recover from that defeat, you could see in the Mercer fight he was reluctant to let his hands go & hesitated too much as he tried to execute the Steward game plan, i think it effected him more than we thought.
Saw this fight live. Thought Butler might have a shot based on his KO of Tony Tubbs. But Butler was 215 for Tubbs. Anyway. He didn't try to rough Lewis up early. You can't go in there and let Lewis play chess with you. He's too skilled. You gotta get nasty inside and make him trade with you. Get him out of his game plan.
Foreman was the lineal champion, not any of the clowns mentioned as alphabet champs. Forman beat Morer, who beat Holyfield, who beat Bowe, who beat Holyfield, who beat Douglas, who beat Tyson, who beat Spinks, who beat Holmes who beat Ali (well...a little muddy there with Ali's retirement/un-retirement) who beat Spinks, who beat Ali, who beat Foreman. Full circle champion over 20 years. The amazing George Foreman!
The Canadian Lewis ducked Tyson for 18 years - and KO's a butterball. The Commentator must be on crack to compare Butler to Tyson. It's like thinking Lewis is British. Both delusional views.
@@l3eatalphal3eatalpha I wouldn't disagree. However, "chunky" is most often uncomplimentary hence my earlier comment because that word choice may be less than professional coming from a paid commentator. Regards.
Lewis was just too much. That's all. Butler was one of the most dangerous punchers in this era. He was the #2 WBC rated HW during this fight. Get outta here.
Much respect to Lewis! One of my favorite 10 best Heavy Weight boxers in the world!
Lennox lewis you are the greatest of all time
When his jab was going, no one could beat him.
Lennox greatest heavyweight?,in your silly dreams coz prime Mike Tyson kills Lennox Lewis
We'll never know, but prime lennox coulda handled anyone. Besr in mind they peaked at different times. Tydon younger, lewis older. Lewis's resume is far better thsn tysons. Just accept it.
If lewis was American you'd all be saying hes the greatest ever@JotimThingadane-eq3dt
@@tomgentry5987 Just accept that the Mike Ironman Tyson of 1985-1988 is unbeatable and whether ur a Lewis, Bowe, Holyfield, Foreman, Ali ,Frazer etc nobody beats that version of Mike Tyson. What affected Mike Tyson negatively was Don king and Robin Givens and if Tyson was with CusDMato and Kevin Rooney for a longer time he was going to be undefeated and invincible
@@JotimThingadane-eq3dtMichael had great style but never improved after 1988, all his opponents were alot older maybe two were younger.
Once he met skill and resistance he was taking the distance or beat.
He avoided not only the biggest rematch in boxing history also the top men Bowe Tua Morrison Foreman Ibeabuchi Mercer both Klitschko's Mcall etc ....he chose names like McNeely Mathis and people applaud.
Regardless who trained him after fighting older lesser grades so he looked good would have made no difference once his youth was gone he relied on power not skill.
Quel artiste de la boxe Mr Lennox Lewis !❤
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17:54 "And I just do get the feeling that Lionel Butler is losing his appetite for this contest"
It was his appetite before the contest that lost it for him.
He had a beautiful jab!
Don King throws another awkward fighter against Lewis. King never got over Lewis rejecting a Don King contract. King did everything he could to ruin Lewis but failed to stop Lewis unifying the titles.
Butler was an elimination bout for the WBC, though upon winning Lewis found himself frozen out & had to beat Morrison & Mercer before being given another chance.
@@BoxingFightsByGaryWilson I believe Ray Mercer was a Don King fighter which I guess is why Mercer never fought Mike Tyson. Mercer gave Holyfield and Lewis serious concern. I always thought King protected Tyson from Mercer. Would have been an epic fight between those two.
Tyson was due to fight Mercer in 2002 but Lewis issued a lawsuit to stop the bout from going ahead, citing a possible injury may put their proposed fight in jeopardy. Lewis was aware Mercer may beat Tyson which is probably why the fight was shelved.@@mazza4190
The referee clueless🎉
Lennox Lewis easily the best Heavyweight any of us have seen in our lifetimes.
Muhammad Ali would’ve played with Lennox like a cat with a mouse.
@@BottleBri It wasn't a motivation thing that stopped Mike. Or a drug or money thing, what stopped Mike Tyson was ability.
We read people think he was great because he became the youngest Heavyweight Champion. People over the years have taken that to mean he was a great champion, when he never was? ... Why? Because great champions win their belts against great champions as opposition. We NEVER claim any boxer as a great, when they've ducked other boxers? How can they be a great while knowing that? Tyson ducked both Lewis while he was Champion, and he ducked Riddick Bowe completely.
Yet both of whom nobody could even begin to argue with were much better than Mike Tyson ever was. And Tyson ducked both??. How can you call him anything like great knowing that? It's commonly known as bullshit.
Lewis beat every man he faced in the ring? Everybody. No man can lay claim to have beaten Lewis, as the two that did, both got beaten up in the rematch. Rahman got brutally beaten up by Lewis after disrespecting him, and McCall burst into tears in his rematch.
What we find looking back over Mikes career was a career that was entirely fabricated by Don King. He had Mike in good shape and saw a chance for the WBC world Title against Trever Berbick (who isn't a great boxer), who had just won the WBC title from Pinklon Thomas 8 months earlier.
King then saw James Smith (who isn't a great boxer) beat Tim Witherspoon to win the WBA world title and straight away wanted Mike to face him.
Mike won the IBF world title against Tony Tucker (who isn't a great boxer) and who had just won it from a fat Buster Clueless.
He won his WBC title again, by Don King getting the WBC to bypass Lennox Lewis (who was the mandatory for Frank Bruno's WBC title he had just won from McCall) and the WBC gave Mike Tyson the first chance at the title held by Frank Bruno when that should have been Lewis.
Then after Lewis had sued Tyson for not fighting him, and won his case. Don King paid Lewis about $4 mill to let Tyson fight Seldon (who isn't a great boxer) for the WBA world title, with Tyson agreeing to fight Lewis next if he won. But as so not to face Lewis, Tyson dumped his WBC world title, and fought Holyfield losing his WBA title.
So the tale of the tape when we take away all the lies, and all the American casual's bullshit is very clear. Mike Tyson won every title he held from bums, and lost them to a not very good Douglas, and Holyfield. Mike won easy fights, then found himself at the top tier of the Heavyweights and was completely outclassed.
Mike Tyson's entire career was a Don King put together career, that avoided all the better boxers and only put Mike against easy targets that would make Mike look good to the uneducated American public. And you have to give it to the corrupt scumbag Don King? He fooled an entire nation of boxing casuals LOL.
@@BottleBri Holyfield was so much better than Mike Tyson ever was. He is the first boxer in history to win a version of the heavyweight title four times. He was an undefeated Cruiserweight champion. Winning the title in only his 12th Pro fight? Unheard of for a non-gold medallist to win any title until after their 20th Pro fight? He did it in 12 fights? Making him one of boxing's finest fighters in the sports history?
He moved up to Heavyweight and in the 25th fight of his career (only his 7th fight at that weight) he won the WBC - WBA - IBF titles from Buster Douglas. He is the man that beat Bowe, the only fighter to do so, though Bowe did beat him in the rematch. Bowe refused to fight Lewis, and that destroyed Bowe's legacy. If he had fought Lewis?, whichever of those two fighters won, they'd have been seen and named as one of the top 3 heavyweights of all time.
Holyfield, like Lewis fought them all, he beat most, and did so much in the sport of boxing that he's an icon, a legend. A true boxing superstar. Yet very few if any Americans will understand this.
@@BottleBri
One of the best fights we never got to see?, was Lewis vs Bowe. Both Bowe & Lewis had beaten everyone they had faced in the ring. No man can lay claim to beating either of them as Holyfield who did beat Bowe, got beaten by Bowe in a rematch, and Lewis beat the two that beat him, McCall and Rahman, in the rematch. Seeing Lewis brutally KOing Rahman for disrespecting him.
If Bowe & Lewis had fought each other?, the winner would be recognized today as one of the best 3 boxers in the history of Heavyweight boxing. Yet they all talk about IRON Mike Tyson? Just Wow!
@@BottleBri LewIs would have knocked Ali out. Far to small. Lewis also had a granite chin, though again we'll read Americans claim he had a glass jaw LOL Because as I've said, casuals, that have no idea at all what level of boxing they're watching. CLUELESS About that.
Tyson? Well, like in this fight. Lennox knew how to handle smaller - in height -power houses. For example, he totally nullified Tua.
Best heavyweight ever. Lennox Lewis.
Best heavyweight of modern times, not all time.
Steward was the best
Sort of a strange fight. Butler just kind of gassed out and stopped punching. Odd.
I don't think Butler was in the best shape, he came in weighing 19 stone which was a little heavy for him.
That was a beautiful combination by Lewis at the start of the 5th round.
@@BottleBri This was an eliminator for the WBC title but King made Lewis fight Morrison & Mercer as well, throwing everything he could in the hope that Lewis would lose..
@@BoxingFightsByGaryWilson he’s a hated man for many good reasons is don king.
Lewis beat every man he faced in the ring. Everybody. No man can lay claim to have beaten Lewis, as the two that did, both got beaten up in the rematch. Rahman got brutally beaten up by Lewis after disrespecting him, and McCall burst into tears in his rematch. We also do know how and why Lewis lost the two times he did. He admitted it himself, he was out making films like Oceans 11, not training or sparring for those two fights, he made the mistake of underrating his opponent. But man, he soon put both right?
Lennox wanted to fight everyone, not only did he fight all that would fight him of his era, but in his last fight he took on a young Klitschko (who after being defeated by Lennox went on to dominate heavyweight boxing for the next decade at least). So not only did Lewis beat all from his own era, he also quit after beating the boxer who would dominate from then on.
Lewis should be recognised globally as the greatest any of us have seen in our lifetimes, only he's not because of the USA's outright lying and making up boxing history, while hilariously trying to suggest Mike Tyson was some great former boxer?, when the truth about him is completely the opposite. Mike Tyson, when we look who he fought and beat, is truthfully nothing like a great heavyweight boxer, so far from great, it is insulting to read anyone call him anything other than a bang average boxer who was not top level, not elite level, and who beat nobody of any sort of distinction in boxing, he never beat a top tier boxer, a hall of fame boxer.
Holmes came out of retirement to face Tyson for the money was nothing like the Holmes we all knew. Spinks was never really a Heavyweight, only a light heavyweight who fought Mike in his last fight, so we can't claim him to have been anything like the Spinks we saw long before. Mike Tyson, knocked over 30+ bums, then got to the top tier of heavyweights, got found out, and got beaten up. This is the reality, the truth.
We also read the American's trying to say Lewis ducked Tyson? Yet again, it was the other way around, Tyson ducked both Lennox Lewis and Riddick Bowe. Bowe himself also ducked Lewis, yet Lewis ducked nobody, and wanted to fight them all, he fought all that would fight him, and beat every single one of them, yet we read endless RUBBISH and blatant outright lies about Mike Tyson? While these American people do all they can to not ever mention Lennox Lewis, and even Less Riddick Bowe?
Yet both of whom nobody could even begin to argue were much much much better than Mike Tyson. And Tyson ducked both. How can you call him anything like great knowing that? It's commonly known as bullshit.
On 31 October 1992, Lewis knocked out Canadian Donovan “Razor” Ruddock in two rounds for the number one contender's position in the WBC rankings. It was Lewis's most impressive win to date and established him as one of the world's best heavyweights. Sportscaster Larry Merchant declared, “We have a great new heavyweight.”
The win over Ruddock made Lewis the mandatory challenger for Riddick Bowe's heavyweight championship. Bowe held a press conference during which he threw his WBC title belt in a rubbish bin, relinquishing it to avoid a mandatory defence against Lewis. On 14 December 1992, the WBC declared Lewis its champion, making him the first world heavyweight titleholder from Britain in the 20th century.
Lewis defended the belt three times, defeating Tony Tucker, whom he knocked down for the first time in Tucker's career, and Frank Bruno and Phil Jackson by knockout. The Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno fight was the first time two British-born boxers fought for a version of the world heavyweight title in the modern era.
Lewis lost his WBC title to Oliver McCall on 24 September 1994 in a huge upset at the Wembley Arena in London. In the second round, McCall landed a powerful right cross, putting Lewis on his back. Lewis returned to his feet at the count of six, but the referee highly controversially ended the fight, giving McCall the title by technical knockout.
In his first comeback fight, Lewis was given a chance to fight for the mandatory challenger position within the WBC and won it by knocking out American contender Lionel Butler. However, at the behest of promoter Don King. The WBC bypassed him and gave Mike Tyson the first chance at the title recently won by Briton Frank Bruno from Oliver McCall. Bruno had previously lost to both Lewis and Tyson.
Lewis had the number 1 contender's slot in the WBC rankings when he knocked out Australian Justin Fortune, then defeated former WBO Champion Tommy Morrison in October 1995, followed by Olympic gold medallist and former WBO champion Ray Mercer in May 1996.
Lewis successfully sued to force Tyson to make a mandatory defence of the WBC title against him. Lennox accepted $4 million from Don King to step aside and allow Tyson to fight Bruce Seldon instead, (with a guarantee that if Tyson defeated Seldon, he would fight Lewis next).
After winning the WBA title from Seldon, Tyson relinquished the WBC title to fight Evander Holyfield instead. Mike Tyson DUCKING Lennox Lewis. The WBC title was declared vacant. This set up a rematch between Lewis and McCall, who met on 7 February 1997 in Las Vegas for the WBC title.
In one of the strangest fights in boxing history, McCall, who had lost the first three rounds, refused to box in the fourth and fifth rounds. He then began crying in the ring, forcing the referee to stop the fight and award Lewis the victory and the title.
American's trying to recreate history with lies, is nothing new. They've been caught out doing it many times. How tragic and embarrassing that really is.
Watched this live on Wire TV..
Lennox Lewis was like a machine he knocked down butler with a jab first time he’d hit the canvas in five years
I remember watching this on BBC, think Grandstand.
Methodical from Lewis, as opposed to absolutely devastating.
Hmmm
This may well be exactly what we see from AJ vs Ngannou.
Although, i expect big Francis to turn up in much better shape than Lionel Butler did here...
I think it was Lewis being Lewis, he would often go through the motions & do just enough to win. Butler was considered dangerous & Lewis played it safe, waiting for the right moment.
I figure AJ stops Ngannou, using the jab early on & steps it up, he's more heavy handed than Fury & will hurt Ngannou sufficiently, forcing a stoppage.
Butler never fought after the first couple of rounds.
This was Lewis being somewhat cagey after the loss to McCall. Butler barely threw a punch for the whole of the 5th round and I think the referee was looking for an excuse to wave it off.
It took Lewis a while to recover from that defeat, you could see in the Mercer fight he was reluctant to let his hands go & hesitated too much as he tried to execute the Steward game plan, i think it effected him more than we thought.
Saw this fight live. Thought Butler might have a shot based on his KO of Tony Tubbs. But Butler was 215 for Tubbs. Anyway. He didn't try to rough Lewis up early. You can't go in there and let Lewis play chess with you. He's too skilled. You gotta get nasty inside and make him trade with you. Get him out of his game plan.
Tôi thích võ sĩ lennox lewis
Lewis is that good a counter puncher no HW dare throw a punch at him
He literally put his hands down and laid backwards. Fishy stuff.
Lewis throws that overhand right every time you throw something hard and miss
11:34 Butler's cornerman thinks he's the captain of the Love Boat.
....not in my life time!
Lewis ne dément pas
On dirait qu 'il s 'entraine tranquille.
Butler is "Tyson's look alike"?! What is this commentator saying?!!
I heard Lewis now employs that man.... As his butler
Foreman was the lineal champion, not any of the clowns mentioned as alphabet champs. Forman beat Morer, who beat Holyfield, who beat Bowe, who beat Holyfield, who beat Douglas, who beat Tyson, who beat Spinks, who beat Holmes who beat Ali (well...a little muddy there with Ali's retirement/un-retirement) who beat Spinks, who beat Ali, who beat Foreman. Full circle champion over 20 years. The amazing George Foreman!
wOwww......
The Canadian Lewis ducked Tyson for 18 years - and KO's a butterball. The Commentator must be on crack to compare Butler to Tyson. It's like thinking Lewis is British. Both delusional views.
It sounded a tad unprofessional, for the commentator to keep referring to Butler as "chunky".
The guy was a lump.
@@l3eatalphal3eatalpha I wouldn't disagree. However, "chunky" is most often uncomplimentary hence my earlier comment because that word choice may be less than professional coming from a paid commentator. Regards.
Actually Butler is fat....and a boxer ?😂😂
Easy night forLennox
Jim was known for this
What a snooze
Butler is a bum
Lewis was just too much. That's all. Butler was one of the most dangerous punchers in this era. He was the #2 WBC rated HW during this fight. Get outta here.
Laziest heavyweight boxer 😅
i loved the L Trains rise!!