Which fight was bigger?

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Originally Posted by TheDukeof74

Lewis/Tyson or Dela Hoya/PBF ??? I really couldn't tell ya, But I do wish the Prime Heavy Roy Jones Jr would have fought Lewis.

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Lewis/Tyson and Lewis would have murdered Roy Jones the first time he caught him flush with a right hand to the jaw

I think lewis tyson is really hard to beat.

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Originally Posted by amat

Yup. But this is the more significant of the two imo.

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Tyson was past his prime.....ODLH is near the end of his prime and Mayweather is just about to peak...gotta go with ODLH-PBF on this one.....

The real superfight would be Mayweather vs Pac Man at a catchwieght I think.

for now its lewis tyson but we'll have to see how this hype monster plays out before we can make final judgements.

The numbers for Lewis-Tyson were very high. Oscar-Floyd has a chance, especially with the 24/7 show, and all the publicity.

Numbers aside, Lewis-Tyson was bigger. Simply because Oscar has a legacy in the public view(even non-boxing fans) already. Lewis on the other hand, needed the win against Tyson(not IMO), to satisfy the haters.

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Originally Posted by DaxxKahn

Lewis/Tyson and Lewis would have murdered Roy Jones the first time he caught him flush with a right hand to the jaw

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Agreed, Jones would have gotten seriously injured if that fight ever happened.
That fight was always just a bunch of hot air from Roy, he had no intention whatsoever of fighting Lewis.

Lewis/Tyson got more hype than Floyd/Oscar. Some of that was because it was a fight that was many years in the making, and also a lot of people were interested just because they wanted to see if Tyson would do something crazy.

Lewis/Tyson had a freakshow side to it because of Tyson, Floyd/DLH would have had a little bit of that if Floyd, Sr. was training Oscar, but now it's just a boxing match.

tyson and lewis
i got the mike tyson game on nintendo with litte mac

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Originally Posted by RiZO

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Originally Posted by Bilbo

On a world scale it has to be Tyson Lewis. I know Floyd is going around saying his fight with Oscar is the biggest fight ever but he's suffering delusions of granduer again.

Here in the UK at least I could say with 100% certainty that probably less that 5% of the British population are even aware it's occurring at all and less than 1% actually give a tuppeny F*** about it.

Floyd just isn't a big name star. Certain athletes transcend their sports Michael Schumcacker, Tiger Woods, Peter Sampras, Freddie Flintoff, David Beckham etc are all examples of stars who even non sports fans will have heard of.

Mayweather ain't even close to that level of fame. In the UK Alfonso Gomez is more recognised and I'm being totally serious when I say that.

I think this fight is a big fight, probably the biggest since Tyson Lewis but it's not any bigger in any way shape or form.

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Floyd isn't a big name star in the UK but De La Hoya is, anyway in the US they are huge and that's all that matters. To be honest I doubt either one of them cares what the Brits think of them.

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Trust me Oscar isn't a star over here at all either. If he walked down any street in the UK I doubt hardly anybody would notice him at all. He's a name that most blokes at least probably have heard of but they couldnt put a face to the name. It's the same as Gatti, a lot of guys you meet in pubs have heard of Arturo Gatti but couldn't tell you what he looks like, what weight he fights whatever.

Floyd is even less well known although I expect that will change slowly.

Peter Manfredo though is pretty well known ::**

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Originally Posted by headson

tyson and lewis
i got the mike tyson game on nintendo with litte mac

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love ole Soda Popinski and Don Flamingo!!!

a prime tyson destroys a prime lewis.......easily

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Originally Posted by undefeated

a prime tyson destroys a prime lewis.......easily

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I disagree, a prime Tyson would of gone the same way.

Yup Lewis vs Tyson.

It was winner takes all and loser walks away. Simple as!

At the risk of saying something stupid...Wasn't Lewis vs Tyson pretty much a forgone conclusion on what was gonna happen? Why was it so BIG. I never really got it. The "comeback" Tyson, to me was so increadably overrated it was ridiculous. I said it once, I'll say it again. Tyson was NEVER back.

ODH and PBF is to me a bigger fight.

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Originally Posted by The Rookie Fan

At the risk of saying something stupid...Wasn't Lewis vs Tyson pretty much a forgone conclusion on what was gonna happen? Why was it so BIG. I never really got it. The "comeback" Tyson, to me was so increadably overrated it was ridiculous. I said it once, I'll say it again. Tyson was NEVER back.

ODH and PBF is to me a bigger fight.

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yes cc- after tyson came back after 5 yrs--he was just a shadow of his former self--it was 2 long