Well Master, there are two points contained within ur post that i wholeheartedly agree with.
1)The opponents were too bloodied and battered to capitalise
2)It was not who he fought that made him a potential great it was the way he fought and the manner of his victories .

I think those were spot on analogys there.
However, i have to disagree. Now i don't want to be mistaken as a Lewis fan. I hated him at the time in which he was active, i was a huge tyson fan. (Now in his retirement i respect the hell outta Lewis and look up his fights a lot.)

But i do feel in hindsight he was better than Mike. Mike was a great fighter, a force inside the ring, but for ever action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Lennox was the antithisis of everything Mike was.
Mike was aggresive, Lennox passive and calculating.
Mike loved to fight, Lennox loved to box.
Tyson wanted things over quickly, Lennox was patient.
Mike often abandoned strategy, Lewis' strategy was religion and was never abandoned merely altered.
Lewis could endure what Tyson had to give, he coyuld employ tactics which would be designed to fatigue tyson. This would frustrate Mike, he would have to continue on his quest to KO lewis, as he would be unable to box lewis effectively. It is my firm belief that tyson would simply tire and be [picked apart by a surgically efficient Lewis.