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Tyson, AJ, Deontay beware: heavyweight upsets happen

Revisiting Hasim Rahman's shock defeat of Lennox Lewis back in 2001, and the rematch.

At the start of 2001, Lennox Lewis was the king of the heavyweight division and after a long-rumoured fight against Mike Tyson failed to materialise, Lewis went to South Africa to fight fringe contender Hasim Rahman. Rahman knocked Lewis out in one of the biggest upsets in the history of the division. Both boxers join the podcast to look back on the fight, the rematch, and the reasons for Lewis's defeat, and Mike and Steve ask whether any parallels can be drawn with Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder's upcoming fights against unfancied opposition.

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