Tommy Morrison vs Lennox Lewis 

Tommy was just not that good at top level

​@@constantine2731I disagree. Tommy beat Foreman in the World Championship title but Tommy did have H.I.V. and still boxed without telling anyone. Tommy's health drastically diminished which affected his speed and endurance.

​@@tskraj3190 both are true. Tommy Morrison was a crude slugger with genuine natural talent and power, but he partied too much and never built much on his natural gifts. Then of course the illness that followed.

​@@tskraj3190Forman was old ...what are you talking about

The disease was fully hitting yet ...a month later was his down climb

And very determined! Heart of a champion indeed. Just got done watching the Briggs fight.

I second that exactly!

Well said.👍

Me. He was garbage.

@@oilyshoes9969 I do love a good parody

Lewis is always laying his body weight on his opponent and holding all the time, did it here, with Bruno, with Tyson = no respect

Steven Mitchell Rest in peace with 72 virgins?

Morrison had a lot of heart, too!...

Sad how his life ended. RIP.

@@RainerGrim What do you expect, he had sex with every Tom, Dick and Harry?

Le sida 😢

Love em we all have been there in one way or the other, he's survivor enough said Thanks

Alex 92 Praise and insult all in one go!

@@redblade8160 what are my insults? He argues!

He left because he lived like a tramp. Lewis busted him up, I just hope Lennox never gets aids from the blood he beat out of his face. The Duke? Dude coudnt box past 5 rds was to dumb to pace.

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lampley is so smooth. must be a genius, so eloquent on the fly

I'd always have some Stouffer's French bread pizzas fresh from the oven when I watched these fights back in the 90's.

@nazur72 Stouffers, does it right, dont they

What's even more unbelievable are all of the comments that say Lewis sucked, he ducked people, he never fought anyone during their prime etc. These are either people who haven't watched much boxing, or are children who weren't around at the time. Lewis, by far, was the most-gifted, hardest-punching, and most dominant heavyweight of that era. I remember when Lewis fought the giant, top-rated Michael Grant in 2000. Grant looked like the next great big heavyweight at the time, and Lewis destroyed him in the 2nd round. Hopefully the boxing historians give him much more credit than these imbeciles do.

@@itzenormous we all know americans are hypernationalistic, they just can't stand outsiders beating their best boxers specially if they are from the UK like calzaghe or lewis etc..

lewis was a completely different fighter than the man who fought Bruno and Mcall.Steward perfected him Morrison looks like a cruiserweight this fight

It was the time, they were in. Mike Tyson really defined the 90's and after his fall off, people didn't want to see a true boxer like Lennox. He just wasn't impressive because he didn't have that killer instinct but an incredible boxer, especially when you think about the division today.

@@itzenormous he certainly ducked a rematch with Vitali

It's because they were all fighting each other, constantly trying to move up the feeding chain. The problem we have nowadays is all the rematch clauses have corrupted the mandatory challenger system so the fighters wanting to move up the feeding chain are getting locked out, and the fighters at the top of the chain aren't fighting regularly.

@@ivanjulian2532 hmmm thanks. Nice insight.

What are you talking about???

Smokin Joe Frazier, Henry Cooper, Iron Mike Tyson...all had better left hooks than your boy.

And all 3 losses were to title holders, WBO shure gets more respect these days.

@@kakimuniafu450 Theres more in history of boxing than the big names. I guess he would have knocked you out in 8 seconds.

@@kakimuniafu450 sonny liston, jack dempsey and Cleveland williams had a better left hook imo as well

He entertained out of it too, himself. Thats why he's dead. No sympathy for addicts.

Even Morrison at his best was no match for Lewis...same result quicker knockout.

@@lastdragon820 Oh sure, not even a question, I was trying to compliment Lewis on taking away Morrison's lottery ticket chance of winning this. Morrison was two, maybe even three classes below Lewis at his best, but that's still a really good fighter.

Morrison could have beaten anybody at his peak. He was about a notch below Lewis at his peak. That said Lewis was the best overall fighter of that era, and one of the greatest ever. He is underrated because he was not super exciting to watch. A big guy with a great jab and a good right hand. Tyson fans don't like to acknowledge Lewis. Tommy Morrison was more than a left hook. He had power in both hands, great footwork, and hand speed. His endurance was his weakness, and that was due to his lifestyle. If he had fought Lewis like he fought Foreman, he would have beaten Lewis.

What age is Lewis here ??

@@rhett7716 Lewis was 30 and Morrison was 26

He was right.

Bertos trainer, "be an assisan" 😅

The number one killer of HIV+ patients is liver failure. From... the medication.

It's fucked up that he put his opponents at risk due to the risk of cuts and body fluids. At least Magic Johnson had enough respect for his sport to retire.

There is no proof of this. I've read it and heard it too but no proof. Also, no one has ever come forward claiming he infected them. Including g his wives and later girlfriends

The anabolic steroids tommy was taking would have been stopping any wasting

That's debatable though.

RIP Tommy.

RIP TOMMY.

W H Y ?

Everything you said was ridiculous

​@@JohnSullivan-jp6qp False, because HBO Boxing never respected black fighters and crapped on them for decades.

@@meharinationsportspodcast2582 incorrect have you ever heard of Roy Jones Jr apparently not they didn’t crap on him

@@meharinationsportspodcast2582 being open about the fighters flaws and constructive criticism isn’t crapping on the fighters. You think that Larry Merchant and Jim Lampley are suppose to praise them like their god and kiss their asses??

​@@meharinationsportspodcast2582no response? Don't be a coward

What a warrior.

He wasn't man enough to stay away from drugs though. NO sympathy.

Absolute warrior and fought with all his heart. But all praise to Lewis, he had practically no trouble against this man.

Tommys own coach said he partied too much and after his win to foreman he just didn't take boxing seriously anymore.. This coupled with the effects of HIV/AIDs is why he couldn't live up to his potential. Same thing with Mike Tyson.

What is the song title for Lewis intro?

Joshua C not sure. I was talking about the showtime bowing theme music intro

Very 80-90s sounding

@@Detroit-gx5nd this is HBO not Showtime back when HBO boxing was the best boxing channel.

God knows how many people he gave them aids and wrecked there lives.may be think about them

That was a great young man that fought adversity and struggles and desires and losses and came out as a champion in all ways i have the greatest respect.for him and admiration rest in peace till we see you again son

He fought some guys later in their life. He didn't fight them in the early/middle 90s when he should have. Plus he got starched in the late 90s when everyone was still young. He avenged his losses though.

Drinking and drugs destroy your body. That's why floyd refused to do them and he could still today be a top boxer and hes mid 40s. Tommy also probably had hiv at this time too considering his diagnoses would come like a year later

Dude also had AIDS likely for multiple years at this point, which wasn't helping his cause.

Tommy didn’t even get in range to land the left hook, that jab was powerful

No excuse, Lenox was just better.

​@@icecreaman2010 excactly even Tommy had no excuse.

Agree. Only 3 losses at almost 50 fights and most of them with ko at 1st or 2nd round

Yah ...Right! Just a bum . Thats it

@@paulj.stavrou4332 Why are you commenting here then? Clown...

Only to a casual who knows nothing about the sport of boxing. Tommy Morrison is not even top 50, casual. He was nothing but a overrated white hype, who white media tried making him out to be the "white Mike Tyson".

of all time no.. he was not rated by the boxing committee or commission ...due to the fact he never faught any huge heavy weights....so no he was not...

but aids did

Morrison is an over-rated boxer. Foreman never gave him much respect in their fight. Foreman was fighting very seriously and cautiously when fighting Moorer cause he knew Moorer was a much stronger opponent. And Foreman almost lost that fight BADLY. Moorer was getting too aggressive and tried to knock Foreman out even in the last round. This is very similar to the match when Pacquiao fought Marquez and got knocked out cold.

@kevindlinc Holyfield not smaller than Ali, both 6'3 and holy more muscled. You get away with less skill by having huge height and reach advantage. Holy v Lewis 1 was a robbery by all accounts.

@kevindlinc I thought holy looked steroidal first time I saw him v Tyson. He came out of cruiserweight/ light heavy where he looks natty. I'm just saying close to same height, reach and fight weight.

@@cruiser6260 Holyfield is 6'2" with his shoes on. He looks big because he is so lean. He was at very low body fat, and top heavy, on a narrow frame. He was a small heavyweight.

Morrison was past his prime here. It would have been a very interesting fight earlier in Morrison's career. When Morrison was younger he would have pounded Lennox' liver with left hooks, and worn him down.

@@-sensibleChris Lewis would of just upped his tempo.

Maybe he had changed but it was to late anyway cause of the virus. Impressing performace if he fought this one with HIV

@@stennilsen9584 He fought his entire career being HIV positive; he was diagnosed in 1989 and hid it until he finally got caught.

dont agree at all, he fought everybody, the fact that he fought Tyson too late, wasn't his fault, rather Mike's one (jail, and others stories). Morisson who was a very good athlete with good skills didn't belong to the same level of Lennox. Top class level, for me one of the best carreer in HW

@@teamzawafootball1370 I know, this Smartboy character obviously isn't that smart. if he was, he would know that Lewis fought all of the top heavyweights of that era, and dominated. I don't know how he can say that Lewis fought Tyson past Tyson's prime. First of all, Tyson was always heavily overrated. He never fought anyone but a bunch of has beens and never wases, except a very old Larry Holmes. Michael Spinks was a very small 205 lbs, and was scared to death in '88 when he fought Tyson. Every capable heavyweight that Tyson ever fought, beat him. And, Smartboy also fails to mention that even though Tyson was 35, almost 36, in 2002 when he fought Lewis; Lewis himself was 37 and near retirement. I guess he also missed where Lewis dominated an in-his-prime slugger like David Tua, and destroyed top-rated giant, Michael Grant in 2000. I could list off all of the top heavyweights that Lewis defeated, all in or near their prime, but Smartboy, not knowing much about boxing, probably doesn't know who any of them are, or were.

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Lol

He fights was always outside the ring in the clubs. With alcohol and drugs...and unprotected enocourse ....

Nawwww, hes forgotten. Bum!

And yet here YOU are commenting on a video about him with 600,000 views!? Get a grip lad🤔

@@paulj.stavrou4332 you're a bum for calling Tommy a bum

@@paulj.stavrou4332 you racist

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Overrated/ not much competition when he was champion. Look, he got knocked out by two crack addicts. Not a great heavyweight champion, not even in the Top 10

@@oilyshoes9969 Well done mate, it’s quite unusual for people to come out and say anything negative about a man that most boxers and boxing commentators freely admit was without doubt one of the greatest boxers of all time and, in a tough era…despite a lot of obstacles. You must be a true idiot.

@@oilyshoes9969 Not much competition? Guy fought everyone in one of the most competitive eras, and beat them all

@@oilyshoes9969 Talking that BS all day? 😂

@@dylanburston7453 dude deluded asf 🤣🤣

No, that would be Holyfield ☺️

@@Fusion991 *Evander was the real deal no question! But give Tommy his due. Morrison @ any given moment could've put even a prime Muhammad Ali on his butt if he landed his (7) flush on Ali's chin.*

Evander "The Real Deal" Holyfield was the duke.

@@Charmolution 🥊🥊 *How bout that Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr fight...did you happen to catch it?*

Lennox is a problem for anyone.

Morrison got lashed all ova off lewis

A prime Tommy Morrison wouldn't have been.

@@-sensibleChris yeah just ask Merciless Ray Mercer what a ko

Morrison has a better record than Mercer

A prime time Tommy Morrison would've KOed any of those heavyweights, Riddick Bowe as well.

@@omaru737 He was in his "prime'' when he was fighting. He was just an overhyped, ridiculously overrated, one dimensional, mid-level fighter.

Well said

You are spot on about the relaxation aspect of boxing which Tommy never quite managed to grasp. He was as you say a very tight fighter and that meant his tank often ran dry very early in fights usually after three or four rounds or so. That and his defense were the main factors which prevented him from reaching a higher level. His stamina was poor that if you watch his fights he becomes a completely different fighter less combinations easier to hit etc etc. His defense too was poor he was always extremely easy to hit and with a bad chin that's a recipe for disaster. I do disagree with you when you question his heart. I think Tommy had toughness he had a broken jaw, broken right hand, cut over his eye against Joe Hipp and kept going and turned that fight around. Against Williams after being knocked down twice he didn't give up he stayed determined and once again pulled it around. Even in this fight he could of easily just not come out of the corner for the sixth round but he pleaded his case saying I have still got my left eye i.e. don't stop it I am still in this. All of those examples show a fighter who persevered when the going got tough he was far from a quitter but was ultimately as you say a good but flawed heavyweight.

@@jakeyb25 asi es era perseverante...

And people say he could’ve beat Tyson if they fought 🤣🤣

K B well, technically Morrison could best Tyson. Of course he could as he was a dangerous and skilled world class fighter. But how many times would they have to fight for Tommy to KO and stop Tyson? 10 times? Does Tommy win one fight out of ten? Better or worse? None would go the distance that is for sure.

He did worse than alcohol. I also don't think he bought into his own hype, but he did buy into his power like many punchers do. He wasn't some kind of bum like a lot of those old stereotypical white hopes were. Him and Cooney were better than that. They both had some different, but serious, issues going on. Tommy was exposed to fame very, very early in his life from being such a good amateur. Rather than having people protect him, they let him indulge.

He got sober but had AIDS

@@PatkaBoy831 He had a 45 and 3 record with 42 knockouts. His only losses were to Ray Mercer, a crusher. Bent, the fluke. And a TKO to Lennox Lewis, the greatest fighter of his generation. Not a hype. A better record than 90% of his peers.

Awww poor Morrison. Only he could stay disciplined, no one but him. Why blame anyone else. He was a bum

Lmaoo Samuel L Jackson reference

Battle of the overrated boxers

Tommy wasn’t overrated!

This is very true. It did help that Tommy was famous for getting gassed in the 5+ rounds.

Yes & it was sad, although Morrison knew what was wrong with him (failed lab results for life insurance) & oot of respect for other fighters, should not had been in the ring. Fortunately it wasn't against one who (like Holyfield) used headbutting to his advantage, the result would had been more disateruos. RIP Tommy!

This isn't in his prime

Tommy mother said he tested positive for the virus in 1989..

God bless him. Tommy put many fighter at risk for Aids.

@@abrahamjackson6019 Yeah that's horrible

Mills Lane best Ref imho

Mills was the best! You're 100% right Morrison wanted no more Mills didn't make him say it though

Surely Mitch haloern the best , milks the second. Rip Mitch - a terrible loss 😞

* halpbern

Very exciting in the Mercer fight. Blocking those punches with his head. His head was his defense

@@paulj.stavrou4332 Actually he hit Mercer with a lot of good combinations in the first three rounds; most heavyweights at the time would have been staggered and then knocked out from that offense. Mercer just has a chin and the ability to absorb big punches like no other. Tommy's only absolute poor performance came against Micheal Bentt, and that was entirely on Morrison for being wasted from the night before and underestimating his opponent.

campeón de Campeones

Lennox lewis got A dangerous right hand rip tommy morris

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That is pushing it fella

Maybe if he was alive and 20 today, but he'd be over 50 years old man lol

He was alive. He didnt own shit. A bum

Weak? Lol not

Stop using caps lock like a simpleton.

Fire

Exactly. Good. Exciting. Dangerous, even. Not great, however.

Not great but, he didn’t start to get dropped until Mercer KO’d him. Tommy had a great amount of potential but never was able to get passed the plateau. And, he was never able to get out of his own way. HIV, peck implants, destructive mannerisms. Everything crumbled around Tommy Morrison. A sad fall from grace!

He was only great in that he helped elevate real champions .... he was like jerry cooney. They were stepping stones.

He wasn’t great. But he was decent. A better fighter than a lot of guys could ever dream to be. Being able to fight Mercer,Foreman,Ruddock,and Lewis was an accomplishment in itself. Morrison could definitely fight

@@shawndayvis6169 Tommy only lost 3 times has over 80% in KO ratio definitely not a stepping stone.

RIP Tommy.

Rr

Morrison was a damn tough fighter. Lewis was just elite.

Even though he fought opponents knowing he was HIV, obviously risking their lives.. I am not dismissing his ability as a boxer just the lack morales he had for others safety..

Yep me too. Exciting fighter

Overrated. Because he was white and American. Shitty fighter..... EVERYBODY sent this guy to the mat. Even Nobodies.

No should be called Tommy like the 30 for 30 doc

@harry potter There is a 30 for 30 on Tommy Morrison Called Tommy. It's on youtube for a price.

A book is coming out in spring of next year hopefully a movie will be soon to follow. I think HBO wanted to do one in the early 2000 Tommy wouldn't agree to it though because he wanted to play himself lol

Boxing is all about styles and Lewis negated the Tommy threat, the rest is history.

Tommy could've had 3 good eyes, same result.

I’m sure it was the itchy eye and not the coke and booze bender, sex parities and steroid abuse. I’ll never understand why so many people are delusional about this guy.

​@@SKa-tt9nmbecause he's white

lewis could be a great michael myers

Sorry!

Thank goodness a lot of fighters didn't, Tommy kept this a secret for around 7 years, between the time of a life insurance application & one of the althletic control boards wanting a blood test. Am grateful that Tommy didn't spread the disease, at the same time was selfish for exposing his colleagues to what he had. I liked Tommy, had a lot of potential, wasted it on bad living......all the way to the end.

Tommy Morrison was never HIV positive.He had a very rare syndrome Miller Fischer Syndrome eith the same symptomatic like HIV. Alll recorder before and after was negative.The was the propaganda from Don King to found this +ex👧from Tommy to avoid the fight with Mike Tyson out of forme.But Buster Douglas was also to strong for him .

@@tonit9978 bollocks. he admitted himself that he was HIV+ after his own doctor confirmed it. he later U-turned and denied it because he was trying to have his license to box reinstated.

@@tonit9978 "maybe you can explain how is possible than he was with hiv virus as he 20 years old from this girl and his wife and his children's are not .Was Miller Fischer Syndrome not hiv but for him was the same .The Miller Fischdr2 Syndrome is more stronger than hiv virus. " when people are tested for HIV, they don't observe the symptoms. they draw blood and look for evidence of the virus itself, by looking for the antigens and antibodies that are created by it's presence. no physician would look at someone and make a diagnosis for HIV by observing the symptoms alone. this is something you need to understand. his doctor performed the tests and observed the presence of the antigens and antibodies that were there. these could not have been present had the virus itself not been. quit saying it wasn't HIV, it WAS HIV. the only people who claim otherwise, are his fans, who jumped on a comment made by his wife. again, his own doctor and his own mother stated categorically that it was HIV. his sons were born in 1989 and 1990, this means that he would have picked up the virus sometime after his second child's conception (roughly sometime during or after october 1989) if indeed that was when it happened. there's also the fact that most if not all the cases of children being born HIV+ are through the virus being passed on by the mother during pregnancy, it's only in very VERY rare cases that fathers pass the virus onto their children before birth. morrison led a promiscuous life, and paid the price for it with his health and the loss of his license to fight. the overwhelming evidence backs up the fact that his death, whilst not being caused by the virus itself, was brought on prematurely by it. now you can still cling onto the dumb belief that he didn't have HIV all you want, but he did indeed have it. he was tested for it by his own physician, and it's presence was found. the only point of contention that there can be, is exactly WHEN he became infected, because it most certainly happened. it was publicly disclosed in 1996, so it happened for sure sometime after the conception of his second child, and before it was disclosed to the world. that's a simple fact. now you can accept fact, or you can continue to live in a fantasy world where you still believe he didn't have HIV, either way, it doesn't change the fact that morrison was indeed HIV+

@@surebrec5113 ...in the last 10- 15 years are so many medicaments against aids , Magic Johnson is the best example and Tommy didn' t use it? Hard to believe... If you see Wikipedia Tommy Morrison german language the causa of his death was Miller Fischer Syndrome 100%. I think about it and seams to be , for me, all most a Mythos this Hiv story. But people love story like this. That" s the problem!

Yeah I know, it's pretty sad

More like 95 to 2005

​@@martindebrois1472 There's pictures of him in 1994 and 1996 that are directly compared side by side and he looked like he aged 10 years in just that 2 year time span. He went from looking like a baby face 20 year old to looking like a 35 year old in just 2 years. But hey thats what HIV does to you and the medicine for it also speeds up the aging process as well so its not surprising , its just a little drastic to see thats all.

@@Capital2x I've seen them ... I wouldn't say *ten* years ... But the partying, and introducing hard drugs into it has a BIG effect on you aesthetically.

.. The weird thing is in '96 he said it all was bad, and shouldn't have been doing it - Then started again in 2008.