{"id":288545,"date":"2025-11-28T21:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288545\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:10:06","slug":"riddick-bowe-places-mike-tyson-lennox-lewis-and-evander-holyfield-in-order-from-best-to-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288545\/","title":{"rendered":"Riddick Bowe places Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield in order from best to worst"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite only sharing the ring with Evander Holyfield<\/a>, Riddick Bowe has offered his take on where \u2018The Real Deal\u2019 would rank in a conversation involving Lennox Lewis<\/a> and Mike Tyson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bowe and Holyfield delivered three captivating heavyweight spectacles between 1992 and 1995<\/a>, with the former coming away from their compelling trilogy as a 2-1 victor.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most notably, the rematch, which Holyfield won via a majority decision, saw the infamous \u2018Fan Man\u2019 come crashing onto the ring apron during their encounter for Bowe\u2019s IBF and WBA world titles.<\/p>\n

It was in 1993, too, that Tyson was serving his six-year prison sentence, meaning the timing for a clash between him and \u2018Big Daddy\u2019 was never quite right, along with the fact the pair were also childhood friends.<\/p>\n

During that same year, Bowe had binned his WBC title \u2013 refusing to face mandatory challenger Lewis \u2013 and instead fought Holyfield for a second time.<\/p>\n

That trilogy with Holyfield was ferocious enough for Bowe to rank his former foe above Lewis and Tyson in an interview with Boxing News.<\/p>\n

\u201c[With] Holyfield, no matter what you do to him, or how you do it, he\u2019s going to be there.<\/p>\n

\u201cLennox, I put him at number two because he\u2019s the biggest of all of us \u2013 I guess he proved that he was durable.<\/p>\n

\u201cMike, he [wasn\u2019t as] durable as those guys [Holyfield and Lewis] \u2013 because they knocked him out. But, in his prime, he was the man that was knocking everybody out, so I make Mike number three.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many would be tempted to place Lewis at the top of a list involving all three legends, especially given that he should, in truth, boast two points victories over Holyfield.<\/a><\/p>\n

Their first encounter, in 1999, saw both men come away with a highly controversial draw, before Lewis claimed a unanimous verdict in their immediate rematch.<\/p>\n

Then, in 2002, \u2018The Lion\u2019 secured an eighth-round stoppage victory over Tyson who, at that time, was considered well past his best.<\/p>\n

But still, most would likely regard Holyfield, who twice beat Tyson in convincing fashion, and Lewis as being the two flagship heavyweights of their era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite only sharing the ring with Evander Holyfield, Riddick Bowe has offered his take on where \u2018The Real…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-288545","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\/288545","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=288545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}