Quote Originally Posted by BIG H View Post
There is no smoke without fire! If it was all hype, why had nobody else had that much interest/acclaim since (or between the time of Ali & Tyson) The marketing wasn't that great!!
When Mike came along, he unified the 3 titles by beating 3 seperate defending champions, no one has done that since Thats what you call unifying and being undisputed

All in all, Mike beat 5 defending champions, Lewis only beat 1

Mike beat all the defending champions of his era (with Rooney) in the 80's then wiped the floor with the linear champ and absolutely ruined Holmes like no one else would have been able to

The only defending champion Lewis fought was Holyfield and he could only manage a draw in their first fight and the second I thought Holyfield wan