20 Years Ago: When Lennox Lewis Beat David Tua In A Fight Tua’s Dad Couldn’t Stop Watching
It was 20 years ago today…… it sounds like a line from a great song by the greatest band of them all, The Beatles.
It was 20 years ago today…… it sounds like a line from a great song by the greatest band of them all, The Beatles.
Talk about an electrifying performance that proved to be far too good for the winning protagonist. It was Halloween Night in 1992 when an unbeaten but largely untested Lennox Lewis met the dangerously lethal Donovan “Razor” Ruddock – who had been sternly tested in two wars with Mike Tyson, as well as in fights with Bonecrusher Smith and Mike Weaver – in a final eliminator for the WBC heavyweight crown.
When reigning WBC heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis signed to defend against Andrew Golota, plenty of fight fans expected a good fight, a hard fight, maybe even a great fight.
Lennox Lewis scored a number of notable and highly impressive KO’s during his career (32 KO’s from his 41 wins, and this from a man the critics once said couldn’t punch).
Lennox Lewis, an all-time great heavyweight champion who defeated every man he faced. Tyson Fury, the best big man on the planet today, also owning wins over every man he has (thus far) faced.
Bored with lists yet? Just lately, during the lockdown, many people have come out with lists, these lists compiling their greatest this, their greatest that in boxing.
We have a Mike Tyson movie coming soon, with Jamie Foxx portraying “Iron Mike,” and there is also a Lennox Lewis documentary on the way.
Former heavyweight and cruiserweight champ David Haye was a guest on the BBC podcast “Greatest Fights,” with Steve Bunce and Mike Costello, and Haye listed his top-five greatest heavyweights from history.
On May 10 back in 1996, a heavyweight slugfest took place that reaffirmed the granite of one fighter’s chin and proved there was some real steel in the chin of the other fighter.
Lennox Lewis had reached his peak, Michael Grant still had a number of amateur traits in his game. Ultimately, this proved to be the big difference in the world heavyweight title fight that took place 20 years ago today.