Great Mike Tyson Posters: The Exit

In our Boxing Posters for Sale post we promised a look at some of our favorite Mike Tyson posters on sale at Bob Pace Boxing Memorabilia Store. Here’s number four of our favorite four.

Fight: Mike Tyson (39-2-1) vs. Lennox Lewis (49-3)
Date: June 8, 2002
Site: The Pyramid, Memphis, Tennessee

This was it. This fight was the end. He hadn’t been Iron Mike in a while but we all still wanted to see him fight. No one thought he would be competitive. Not against 6′7″ giant Lennox Lewis. In fact maybe for the first time the world wasn’t scared of Mike Tyson they were scared for him.

In the poster this fear is amplified. Lewis dominates Tyson in the stark brush stroked canvas. He towers over him confidently while Mike almost cowers. His furrowed brow is not intimidating and steely, his cheek bones look soft, he already looks defeated. In the other posters we’ve looked at Mike was the unmistakable aggressor, the dominant force. Here he’s small, the one about to be bullied.

And he was in eight brutal rounds. Lewis almost seemed to keep him around longer than he had to in order to inflict more punishment. It wasn’t how the greatest heavyweight champ 80’s should have left.

Poster price: $25
at Bob Pace Boxing Memorabilia Store