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Originally Posted by Salvy_Mic
Just to add what Luis and Hustla said, but part of the reason Lennox is not considered one of the all-time great heavyweights are the shocking losses he suffered at the hands of Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman. Sure, he got his wins back, but those were fights he should have won dominantly the first time around. Sure, Ali was upset, but until his loss to Leon Spinks (when Ali was already declining), the only losses in his career were to another legend, Joe Frazier, and one of the more underrated heavyweight champs, Ken Norton, both of whom were in their own primes.
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Difference is, at least Lewis went back in there and beat Rahman and McCall. Did Tyson avenge his loss to Buster Douglas? Did he avenge against Holyfield? Or even those tomato cans he handpicked but ended up losing to. You can't use one scenario to deny Lewis' place in history and then ignore that same scenario for Tyson. Lewis avenged his losses, Tyson didn't. But yet Tyson has a place in history, but ESPN decides to decline mentioning Lewis despite him winning the Olympic Gold medal, Commonwealth Heavyweight Title, 14 successful World Heavyweight title defenses, along with unifying the WBA, WBC, and IBF championships, and beating every mandatory contender in his career, and avenging every loss.
Whatever!