{"id":271072,"date":"2025-11-19T05:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271072\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:34:09","slug":"mike-tyson-names-who-was-better-between-evander-holyfield-and-lennox-lewis-after-losing-to-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271072\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson names who was better between Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis after losing to both"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Tyson<\/a> fought, and was beaten by, both Evander Holyfield<\/a> and Lennox Lewis<\/a>, but only one of them has been crowned the best opponent he ever faced.<\/p>\n

Prior to his first encounter with Holyfield, \u2018Iron Mike\u2019 was forced to rebuild his fearsome reputation after suffering a huge upset defeat to James \u2018Buster\u2019 Douglas in 1990.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but Tyson then served three years of an intended six-year prison sentence, before eventually reclaiming his WBC world heavyweight title with a third-round stoppage victory over Frank Bruno in 1996.<\/p>\n

By then, it is fair to say that the monstrous puncher had restored much of his aura, and was therefore made a sizable favourite, ahead of his clash with Holyfield later that year.<\/p>\n

And yet, despite that, a largely measured and disciplined performance from Holyfield ultimately saw Tyson get stopped in the 11th round.<\/p>\n

The following year, he was then disqualified in their rematch after twice biting his opponent\u2019s ear<\/a>, an action he later attempted to justify by claiming that it was in response to several Holyfield headbutts.<\/p>\n

As for Tyson\u2019s encounter with Lewis in 2002, it could hardly be said that he was treated to a more straightforward night\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Rather, the Brooklyn man, this time considered a clear underdog, was on the receiving end of a one-sided beating before suffering an eighth-round stoppage defeat.<\/p>\n

At the time, Lewis, too, was arguably not the force that he once was, but still had enough left in the tank to dominate his rival from start to finish.<\/p>\n

Tyson, however, told Ring Magazine<\/a> that Holyfield was the best he ever went up against inside the squared circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cHolyfield. Great champion, chin, heart, determination, work ethic, demeanour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson fought, and was beaten by, both Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis, but only one of them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-271072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}