The level of Lewis' opponents

[Schmerzen]

The Holyfield who fought Tyson was far superior to the one who fought Lewis... Holyfield was ROBBED in his 2nd fight with Lewis... The Tyson who Lewis fought was the same Tyson who Danny Williams & McBride fought

ye but lewis was robbed in their first fight

[sonnyboyx2]

ye but lewis was robbed in their first fight

yes i thought Lewis won their 1st fight and Holyfield their 2nd fight... its a shame Lennox wanted no part of a trilogy

[blacklodge]

Again, not Lewis bashing, but I think the Tyson and Holyfield that fought Lewis were not quite the same as the ones who fought each other, and certainly the Tyson that fought Lewis was not the same as the one that fought Williams and McBride. Tyson went into the Holyfield fights believing he was going to win, and was not in shape for the 1st, but in shape for the 2nd. In the 2nd Tyson looked sharp, quick, and I was a bit concerned for Holyfield before Tyson senselessly folded like a cheap lawn chair and started elbow locking and biting. I thought Holyfield was winning, but I think Tyson had a very good chance of outlasting Holyfield in that fight if he could have stayed focused. I don't think Tyson thought he was going to beat Lewis at all, but was in good shape (by that I mean his weight was down) and seemed content to toss an opening salvo out there and then settle into a picking a soft spot on the canvas. The difference between that Tyson and the Williams/McBride Tyson is that Tyson instead of training probably just hung around with Jeff Fenech, listening to Jeff Fenech talk about Jeff Fenech and how great Jeff Fenech was.
With Holyfield, I'm mainly looking at how awful he looked against Vaughn Bean, which was the same kind of awful like he looked against Lewis. But he looked sharp as hell against Moorer (II) just before Bean, so maybe I'm wrong. I do think Holyfield lost the
2nd fight with Lewis outright, no controversy. There was a point where it looked like Holyfield had siezed the momentum of the fight, mainly behind his own under used jab (He could have won all the fights he lost to that point and beyond for the most part if he would have stuck to his jab), before Lewis landed a crippling (and also under used) uppercut that kind of put Holyfield in a shell for the rest of the fight.