Quote Originally Posted by Big_Deuce

i dont think anyone can deny that talent that mike tyson had, and he did dominate the HWD for a short while, true the opposition wasnt the hardest, and the same can be said for lennox lewis. He was clearly the most talented of his era, but these are both weak, unstable eras that contained no excellent heavyweights (well none in their prime) to test them. If lennox lewis is so great, someone name me 1 fighter that he beat, that could be placed on the top 10 heavies ever. (please dont even mention tyson or holyfield, fighters past their prime dont count! im not sayin tyson is a top 10 heavy ever, but someone might).

Can you name a better Heavyweight era than the one Lewis dominated other than the early seventies ??

What you aren't remembering is that the heavyweight division throughout history has tended to have 1 maybe 2 dominant fighters in any era, I don't think Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano Mie Tyson or Larry Holmes(to name a few that most people would have in their top 10) fought anything like the calibre of opponent that Lewis did - in fact I am damn sure they didn't.

And with regards to beating all time top 10 greats in their prime, did any of the guys I mentioned do that either. Ai beat Frazier and Foreman, Foreman beat Frazier, but apart from that I can't think of many top 15 fighters that fought in their prime