I met Lennox at my gym once. He is incredibly nice.

My favourite memory of Gary Mason was actually during the first Bruno-Tyson fight. Gary Mason was at ringside jumping up and pounding on the canvas screaming "f### him up Frank!" Great tv coverage from back in the day.

Cause he never went past the British scene but it was probably because of his eye

Yea the eye unfortunately was his Achilles heel 😂​@@dawg4769

Said I've never heard of him

He was very slow though wasnt he

​@@user-cp5fp3nv2x But affective, or he wouldn't have chalked up all those victories

Men like this in security industries(especially bouncers)are extremely dangerous for stupid drunk people...this man had a real grenades in his fists

Meet Gary at a boxing show in London. Shook hands and chatted for a couple of minutes....an absolute gentleman

Grande técnico de lenox, bater no olho, ganhou várias lutas desde jeito

I met Lennox. He is incredibly nice.

@brutusleao well Brutus, that may say more about than you realise. Even though I’d had a couple of beers I know how to conduct myself, especially in front of people I admire.

Sad ending. He apparently lived in a small pokey run-down flat and had no money or anything.

and he was riding his bike when he was killed, he was 48@@DameTremonti

Except for the fact that they used f'ing clickbait for the thumbnail.

He's not in the all-time top 100 heavyweights.

And he didn't actually lose, ref retired him for a cut

​@@rneomanThat's a loss in boxing 🥊

I didn’t realise Mason was so good. I knew he hit hard but he looks solid in this video

Ali would HAVE beaten him. The unbeaten Foreman that Ali KO'd would have beaten him too. Very few others would though, possibly a peak Larry Holmes.

@@andyelliott8027 I won't argue as hard to say. Different times.

@@alunmorgan2352 Toughest era in Heavyweight history. Ali, Foreman,Frazier, Ken Norton, Ron Lyle, Earnie Shavers etc. Any of those would have made mincemeat of Gary Mason.

@@andyelliott8027I doubt it. He would be severely physically disadvantaged from one of the most technical HWs in history with the benefit of the sports evolution. And the way they win fights was essentially the same. Same reason Joe Louis wouldn’t beat Lennox. That were flag bearers of their time limited by time itself. But pushing the sport forward single-handedly at times so Lennox could run while they trudged ahead. In his absolute prime, Lennox would struggle to beat Liston. Ali had uniquely a granite chin AND incredible speed. Lennox has a solid chin and good speed but Liston at his peak you’d need those two In spades he was weirdly vulnerable but only to a specific style. But Ali was the only one really with a jab so fast it negated liston’s lethal jab. It literally knocked people out. Lennox depends on his jab, fighting the guy with by far and by all his peers and near-peers the strongest job in boxing history is not going to be favorable matchup. It’s a battle of the Jabs that in his prime I can’t not pick listons unless he’s other world quick like Ali’s. Not sure he’d beat Holmes either for similar reasons. Another giant using his jab but Larry was dynamic with it. Lennox’s entire game plan depends on unsettling his man with his jab. I’m not a fan of Larry but that wouldn’t work. His jab isn’t as solid as Larry’s despite being very good. Larry could bang too. And could wear punishment very well. Lennox had this weird thing where he went from 100 to 0 real quick. Almost no fighters in history would be able to get inside long enough to make the damage accumulate and him lose focus. Larry is that type of guy as was Sonny. Other than that, I’d probably put my money on Lennox vs the field who I think is the most prolific HW specifically of all time in terms of who he fought and his success /dominance against ATGs consistently .

@@andyelliott8027 Again I can't argue too much. All I can say is the era Lewis was in was pretty special also. Both era would have ruined everybody in this one

Yeah he reminds me a lot of Mercer

RIP? Lennox isn’t dead

Hes talking about Gary Mason

Is that Gary MANSON the mass murderer ? Was he related to Gary Mason?

​@andyelliott8027 Somehow, I spelt the name wrong by mistake, I meant to write Mason lol 😅

At that time yeah for sure, his jab was better than every other HW boxer already. Lennox Lewis and Larry Holmes have the two best jabs in HW history

He only died 13 years ago so there hasn't been time for the news to circulate.

@@ppuh6tfrz646 I live in NZ,so wouldn't be news here,Pal.

@@mowerman60 And the internet is a relatively new thing over there...

He was out on his pushbike and a bus collided with him , sad loss

@@twmlloyd5257 It was a van not a bus.

The best resume was held by Muhammad Ali who beat 3 of the all-time top 10, two of them twice,and 15 of the all time top 100.

@@andyelliott8027 You’re entitled to your opinion.

It's not My opinion,it's the opinion of Ring magazine and a matter of public record and recorded boxing history. It's there in black and white.​@@jukeboxtimebomber

@@jukeboxtimebomber it's a fact not an opinion lewis is nowhere close to Ali or even the top HWs of all time

@@theinformationbomber7102 Whatever you want to believe 🙂

Lewis never faced a prime Tyson. Tyson was basically a stationary target when he fought Lewis.

@@ppuh6tfrz646 Lewis wasn’t prime either. He was older than Tyson and only fought one more time. A good big man usually beats a good small man and when Lewis was good, he was very good.

@@timthompson8297 It isn't as straightforward as you make it out to be. Fighters don't all peak at the same age. Tyson peaked in 1988 and was 14 years past his prime when he fought Lewis plus he was out of the ring for 4 years between 1991 and 1995. That's a lot of ring rust.

​@@ppuh6tfrz646 The "Prime Tyson" that supposedly peaked in 1988 was partly an illusion created by a sequence of poor opponents.

Legend! Not only British legend. LEGEND!!!

Canadian. Does he sound British to you? Even now?

@@andreastzanneskastritis4367 omg! Another legend! Lol

@@juice6735 All of a sudden everyone's a legend!

Not true, they never sparred

You're probably thinking of Oliver McCall.

yep there is youtube footage of Tyson sparring McCall, and McCall handles himself very well.

@@nickmetcalfe4536 gary mason was tysons sparring partner gang it’s documented

@@abraxis20 nope mason was a documented sparring partner

Ikr

That's not photo shop. I was there and that's exactly how it was.

Yes