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TraceOneInfinite:
Some great heavyweights in that era. 

-Lennox Lewis was truly a bad man.  Seems like he never lost a fight and always appeared dominant and in control with that long jab he used to control fights and keep boxers away.  Even the fight he lost to McCall the ref called that fight early with Lewis still on his feet and hungry to continue the fight.  McCall talked a gang of shit and Lewis beat his ass so thoroughly in the next fight that he quit during that fight in what was a truly bizzare moment... even in boxing standards.

-Tyson was fucking insane in the 90's.  With Cus gone, Atlas, and bobby Steward gone from his corner Mike went fucking nuts.  And all types of hilarity and insanity ensued.  Yet, through it all he was a personal favorite of most, and the hip-hop champ- coming to the ring to Pac music and shit like that.

DeeezNuuuts83:
I mostly watched Tyson fights and Holyfield fights, till their careers fizzled.  But later on I watched Fernando Vargas too since I was from Oxnard.  I loved how he wasn't a punk and didn't sell out (and that was a big contrast between him and Oscar) but then he got shut up by Trinidad and then Oscar, and never quite recovered his career after that, especially since he got caught with some PEDs in his system, plus I remember around that time he caught some assault charges for a fight he got into in Santa Barbara or something.

TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: DeeezNuuuts83 on April 26, 2017, 09:29:10 AM ---I mostly watched Tyson fights and Holyfield fights, till their careers fizzled.  But later on I watched Fernando Vargas too since I was from Oxnard.  I loved how he wasn't a punk and didn't sell out (and that was a big contrast between him and Oscar) but then he got shut up by Trinidad and then Oscar, and never quite recovered his career after that, especially since he got caught with some PEDs in his system, plus I remember around that time he caught some assault charges for a fight he got into in Santa Barbara or something.

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I don't know a lot about Vargas, I was really only into the heavyweight division.

As for Holyfield, he was a really great fighter, very spiritual man.  He didn't appear in the ring as a killer--he was all heart.  He even quickly forgave Tyson for the ear biting incidents and his bouts with Riddick Bowe were classic.  Maybe he lacked a bit of charisma in comparison to other 90s boxers like the afformentioned Tyson, Lewis-- or also Tommy Morrison or George Foreman--who can forget when foreman knocked out Michael Moore in an epic upset by an aged warrior.  Moore was trained by tysons old trainer Atlas and you could even hear Atlas reminding Moore not to be baited into that punch but Foreman won the match with one good punch!!

Sccit:
holyfield woulda gotten shitted on if he fought tyson in his prime

DeeezNuuuts83:
But isn't Holyfield a good amount older than Tyson? Tyson at his prime would've also meant we'd see a younger Holyfield too. It's like saying Floyd didn't fight Manny at his prime -- which is true -- but with Floyd being older than Manny, we'd have seen a slightly fresher Floyd too.

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