Shakur Stevenson Has No Doubt Who Wins Prime Mike Tyson vs Prime Lennox Lewis Fight

Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis remain two of heavyweight boxing’s biggest-ever stars.

These days both men are as popular as they ever were. Lewis remains in and around the fight game, spent years working as a pundit in the United States and often pops up to speak about current fighters, not least back in May when Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk battled it out to take the first undisputed title since he had held it back in 1999.

Lewis retired after beating Vitali Klitschko on cuts in his final fight and has never returned to the ring since.

Tyson, however, left boxing behind after a pair of back-to-back defeats in 2005, though came back for an exhibition against Roy Jones Jr in 2020.

He and Lewis famously fought in June 2002 when Lewis got the win by 8th-round knockout, but many think it was years after Tyson had passed his best.

Speaking to Mics, current lightweight world champion Shakur Stevenson was asked who he thought would win should both men fight in their prime and went with ‘Iron Mike.’

“Tyson. Lennox Lewis was a beast but that power. I don’t know if Lewis could deal with a prime Tyson.”

Later this year, Tyson is back for a first professional contest in more than two decades when he takes on Jake Paul. Paul is less than half his age and is a currently active fighter who has won 10 of his 11 fights and Lewis is backing his former foe to get the win.

Stevenson, meanwhile, defends his world title against Welshman Joe Cordina on the undercard of the undisputed delight heavyweight showdown between Dimitri Bivol and Artur Beterbiev.