People dissmiss Mikes win over Holmes but look at this way.

If Larry had not have fought Mike and but had the rest of his career as it happened, beating an undefeated olympic gold medalist, pushing Holyfield, pushing McCall etc.

If someone brought up now, how Mike would have done against Holmes. All the Tyson eevisionists would say, "if am older Holmes can stand up to Mercer, Holyfield and McCall being moe than competative, with his jab, movement and chin, the younger Holmes stands up to the bully and frustrates him to take it to points".

Fact of the matter is, what Mike did to Holmes, I doubt very much that any other fighter EVER could have done but twats chose to dismiss it and forget that Holmes was still a very capable fighter when even older! When he took the fight with Mike, he was only 18 months removed from his second fight with Spinks (Mayweather was retired longer when he came back to beat Marquez). When Holmes came back to show up the nineties heavies, he had been retired nearly 3 years!

Lewis would have struggled with the same Holmes that Holyfield fought. The Tyson that fought Holmes was a vastly different fighter to that, that even fought Rudduck, let alone when he came out of prison having not fought for 4 years or when he finally faced Holyfield and Lewis. They werent better fighters. Holyfield could never hope to have the same kind of result against a younger Holmes.