if tyson wanted that fight he would've already signed for it.
Excrement. That would be true if it were 1912 and the fighters fought bareknuckled in a ring walled off by rope. With a layer of sawdust on the ground. Shirtless, wearing bluejeans and boots.
No; someone gently awaken kindly old George Foreman and remind him that in the day of television, network deals, promotional contracts, etc - it's not as simple as one, or both men, simply "signing" for a bout. That's an absurd generalization, even for "Knock out the Fat" Foreman.
Showtime stepped aside to let Holyfield fight Lewis on HBO's PPV network. Inexplicably - though probably because Lewis is the heavyweight champ - HBO indicated that it wouldn't step aside, so, there was an impasse; an impasse which, as Lewis and Tyson announced jointly earlier this week, was being rectified.
Tyson is not the better boxer, but is certainly the better fighter.
tyson doesn't want that fight with lewis.
ROFL - GMAMFB. Foreman saying that makes it so?
I'm sure Tyson does want that fight, if for no other reason than because the loser stands to make $30 million. But the kicker is, he won't lose.
Oliver McCall knocked Lewis out in the first round of their fight with a half-assed punch he didn't even intend to land. A straight right that had Lewis glassy-eyed and visibly shaken.
When we look back at this era in boxing 10, 20, maybe 30 years from now, we'll all marvel (well, I won't, because I've been saying it all along) at how the much-vaunted heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis, it turned out, had a porcelain jaw. But how it took a ring monster, not afraid to get inside, with the most murderous punches in boxing to expose him after he'd consumed a cadre of lackluster opponents.
He also, in two fights, couldn't knock out - couldn't knock down - a waning Evander Holyfield.
He also let Tua get inside on him several times in the first few rounds of that yawner of a victory; luckily Tua only has a left hook and was over 250 lbs, so nothing connected solidly.
It's my belief that too many folks are equating Lewis-Tua to Lewis-Tyson...a comparison so misguided that the first two rounds of Lewis-Tyson will point it out definitively.
Tyson is going to beat Lewis, when it comes together. |
