Lennox Lewis on Fighting Mike Tyson | Joe Rogan
Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1260 w/Lennox Lewis & Russell Peters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdKgBatTe_E.
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March 12, 2026
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Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1260 w/Lennox Lewis & Russell Peters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdKgBatTe_E.
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Lenox fue perfectoes momento sin rival
Lewis is well spoken as well smart
Lennox o that jab was crazy that was hes weapon great champ
Let’s be real he took advantage of a Tyson who was done Mentally after Jail he wanted no smoke prior to all the bad things tyson started to deal with
Hats off to Lewis for not saying why Tyson went to prison
Tyson was a one trick pony who didn't have the brain power to adjust midfights ,and americans saying that Tyson was not in his prime are as stupid as he is because lewis is actually older than he is ,you make up excuses that he was an unstoppable tough guy but reallity was he got knocked out 3 times in his career
They were a year apart both in their mid 30s 🤦
Is that Prince Naseem?
Both great fighters
Brilliant analysis of Tyson’s career at the time they fought big respect to a great fighter def my favorite right after Tyson
He'll do what for 100 M?
Mike looked great when he got out ? I thought he was like 285 in the picture of him exiting the jail
Honestly I don’t know if Tyson could have beaten Lennox even in his prime, wtsch his fights against razor ruddock and Tony Tucker, Tyson fought those guys both in his prime as well, Lennox was extremely good
Lewis is a class act – he doesn’t get the credit he deserves as one of the best of all time.
When tyson was in jail he was shredded due to too many weignt lifting and eating food on time and in routine
PS: if you eat your food on time and in routine youre gonna get healthy
Lennox is very respectful.
Cool as a cucumber.
Great,humble,articulate,guy…..
Rediculous Bowe lol… tbh his manager was a POS, and I'm sure it was the manager's idea for Bowe to throw his championship belt in the garbage on the TV. But Lewis/Bowe would have been one heck of a fight. Add that to the list of fights we'll never get to see due to bad management
I watched some of Lennox Lewis' left hooks when he was fighting Vitali Klitschko. Getting hit with just one of those things would send most people into a coma. The strength and speed was absolutely incredible, and I believe he was in his late 30s at the time.
Lennox beats any version of Tyson.
Have you guys noticed, in his fight against tyson, at one point he thought tyson was gonna be knocked out and he refrained from the last punch
Lenox is a true gentleman, and a true beast!
Lewis was older that Tyson by a year. Tyson worked hard on his fitness while in prison. The truth is that Lewis was a better, stronger and smarter fighter. He studied boxing and the boxers he fought and he knew how to beat people like Tyson. It's said that Lewis prolonged the knocking out of Tyson to give the huge viewing audience value for money. By round 3 Tyson's fight was over…
We sometimes put Lennox to the side and talk about the Tyson fight being past Tyson's prime because of how much of a character Tyson was.
Tyson is such a fan favourite because he was the highlight fighter of his time, the knock out artist, the entertainer (famous or infamous in the news) in and outside of the ring for better or for worst.
As a mid 20s year old boxer I sit there and idolise them both for diffrent reasons. At the end of the day it come to legacy, you'll never get the best fighters at their pure prime fighting each other or very rarely. For me it's lewis, because when it came to being in the ring he was consistent and anybody you put infront of him he did the business.
Tyson went to prison, the fight happened after he wasn't the same "Baddest man on the planet" feared fighter but in the end it's simple. Lennox was the last undisputed lineal heavy weight champion for so long and the won whi beat anybody you put infront of him (even rematch ofcourse) and retired still on top still the champ.
Tyson was a shell of a fighter when he finished but still was a figure in boxing that every boxer growing up knew his name and wanted to be like him in the ring. Hell even when came out for the farce of a fight with jake Paul you can't tell me you didn't see people who know nothing about boxing tune in to see the myth and legend that is Tyson. He's the man that everybody knows and no matter what everybody wants to see.
Both have their legacy and both are titans of the sport. All we can do is acknowledge them and appreciate them for the fighters they were.
Other than that we just gotta love the sport and look to the next era.
That's me commenting on a random video at 2am as a boxer from down under who wished he could of been alive to see them fight. Merry Christmas everyone keep ya chin down and hands up.🇦🇺🇬🇷🇦🇺🇬🇷🎄🎄🎄
Don king kept Tyson away from Lewis because he knew that he was the only boxer that could handle Tyson,
You can't have a British accent and an American one rolled together. You just can't.
Riddick "Fatman"Bowe got TKOed by Lewis in the Olympics. When he won the WBC Heavyweight Championship, they made Lewis the mandatory
title defense. Bowe refused to fight him, and in a press conference, dumped the championship belt into the garbage!
Now he wants to fight him? What a punk! Lennox Lewis did what not even Muhammed Ali couldn't do.
Became, and retired as the undisputed world champion!
Lennox defeated all the best boxers of his time. He could be considered (one of) the best.
Elite guys like Holyfield / Lennox could still win (and loose) against Tyson Prime.
It's obvious tyson was not even 50% of his best. Lennox didn't even fight prime Holyfield 😂
Lewis woulda got SMOKED by Peter McNeeley. McNeeley had actually challenged him to a fight and Lewis pussed out. I don't blame him.
Cocky bastard lol
Mike never fought George Foreman. Riddick Bowe. Micheal Moorer who became champ and lost to Foreman.
Lennox is my favorite boxer of all time.
Tyson wasn’t the same in 2002, and people thought he would be the same in 2024, lmao
Mad respect for Lewis
Met lennox at my uncles funeral howard winstone such a gentleman he was
He has such an interesting accent it’s like American with a twinge of British
Shut up Russell
Seems like Lenox is very upset about the fact that the world remember Mike Tyson way better than him..
All old school boxing fans have to respect the comment chicken bo😂😂😂😂😂
Lennox, what a legend.