Lennox Lewis: “It’s kind of weird. When me and Mike Tyson met it was 1983. We wanted to know who this Mike Tyson was, everyone was talking about this guy on the American amateur team. We went up there and sparred with him for a couple of days. That was eye opening, it was a great experience for me. He taught me about boxers l’ve never seen before.
He took me up to his room and pulled this white sheet down and we watched these old tapes of fighters. He was very educated in the history of boxing, better than I was at that time. We crossed paths at that point.
“Then he became the heavyweight world champion way before I did. He matured quicker. He had that mechanism in America to help him. We’ve had a long history together. Even when he was saying he wanted to eat my children, I thought he was a vegetarian. That was weird, but we fought and got that out of the way. Mike Tyson has always shown a lot of respect in the world of boxing, especially to me. I love him for that. He speaks it the way it is. He’s the most real fighter out there, he doesn’t hold anything back. We’re on a different level when it comes to friendship because we have such a history together.”
Author: Linda .R. Jones
Senior Writer
London,UK
