First of all your going by some second hand story that has never been verified by don king or tyson, so its not even worth addressing but i will, the foreman they were talking about was YOUNG foreman, not the fat butterball who was busy getting his face lumped up against bums, if foreman wanted a tyson fight so bad he shouldve got into contention like everyone else not going on talk shows or radio and saying he can beat tyson and thinking he can get a fight just because of name value, and lets be real if tyson beat him you would still be saying the same shyt about tyson beat up a old foreman etc. because your one of those fan who never will give tyson his due.
Also the lewis-tyson fight was supposed to happen, lewis was even offered 10mil. which was his biggest payday at that point and more than he couldve earned alone because tyson was the draw, and guess what? lewis turned it down being greedy, and tysons camp went to explore other fight options, upon hearing this your boy lennox sued, it was settled with the provision being lewis tyson would be next up after seldon, so how exactly was he ducked again? lewis even held up the seldon fight which in turn tyson dropped the belt just to get the thing over with.
but heres you go since your so fond of qoutes
''The result brings a scathing attack from Jay Larkin, senior vice-president of Showtime TV sport. He alleges Lennox has no genuine intention of facing Tyson.
"It's totally untrue to suggest Tyson is afraid of Lewis," stresses Larkin, whose company has exclusive rights to Mike.
"Lewis is welcome in a ring with Tyson on July 13 and we will pay him 10 million dollars - the biggest purse of his life.
"Lewis and his people have refused. In their greed they have tied themselves to HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO)
A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber.
"All their talk of shaming Tyson into fighting is bluff. Lewis is simply not available. Unless he gets three of the HBO contracts there is no possibility of him meeting Mike."
Larkin reveals they are courting Evander Holyfield for July instead. And he insists the legal ban on Tyson boxing anybody but Lewis will be overturned.
Says Larkin: "Sadly, Tyson is now trying to abandon the WBC belt to get on with his life. Lennox Lewis can pick it out of a trash can - again."
Eliades confirms: "We have turned down Showtime's offer because we'd prefer to put on the fight ourselves. We can pay Tyson 45 million dollars.
"It is not correct that we can't box for Showtime. If they up their bid to 15 million, they have got themselves a fight!"
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/TYSON'S LAUGHING!; It's a night on the boos for+Lennox.-a061162075