Thread: Mike Tyson???????

What do you guys think of him as a fighter? his achievement? and so on

Fought in a weak era , folded like a pack of cards when he fought world class guys who fought back.

Loved watching him in the mid 80's- 90's, but now i feel he looked much better than he actually was.

A BULLY , thats my opinion.

One of the most exiting boxers ever, very skilled in his prime when he had confidence and dicipline. Shame it all went tits up like it did and he started eating people in the ring or snapping their arms off lol.

He is one of my fav's exitement wise, even when he fought inferior opposition I paid to watch it.

Youngest heavyweight champion is his greatest acheivement

Originally Posted by Dark Lord Al

Fought in a weak era , folded like a pack of cards when he fought world class guys who fought back.

Loved watching him in the mid 80's- 90's, but now i feel he looked much better than he actually was.

A BULLY , thats my opinion.

Exactly. He would be ideal in this day and age. He was exciting and could punch extremely hard, But as dark lord rightly said he LOOKED much better than he really was.

Originally Posted by Dark Lord Al

Fought in a weak era , folded like a pack of cards when he fought world class guys who fought back.

Loved watching him in the mid 80's- 90's, but now i feel he looked much better than he actually was.

A BULLY , thats my opinion.

That's nothing to do with Tyson but I agree with most of that he was just a bully, but a bully can always be bullied.......and he was.

Jesus these threads are tiring..... a fighters name and then 7 question marks... followed by what do you think

Gee why dont you start a thread called Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich?

What do you guys think

not to mention we can dig up anyone of the 10000000000000000000 Mike Tyson threads that were more thought provoking than this one for your answer

Originally Posted by JT Rock

Jesus these threads are tiring..... a fighters name and then 7 question marks... followed by what do you think

Gee why dont you start a thread called Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich?

What do you guys think

not to mention we can dig up anyone of the 10000000000000000000 Mike Tyson threads that were more thought provoking than this one for your answer

says the OLD GUARD. You better listen.

Exciting fighter with amazing balance great combination punching and probably one of the fastest Heavyweights ever only Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali are in Mike Tysons league in the speed department and i think his speed contributed alot to his power. The problem is for Mike Tyson is that at the time he come along most of the 80s Heavyweight talent were shot fighters and plus Mike Tyson never beat a great fighter in there prime so we will never know how good he really was because he was never really tested and i think you only see the best in a fighter when there severely challenged because you see there heart, will, and you see them got into another gear amongst plenty of other things sadly for Mike Tyson his era wasn't that great so there was no fighter at that time to really teste but in my opinion he could of been of the best Heavyweights ever and only very few Heavyweights could beat Mike Tyson at his peak.

Originally Posted by ssss

Exciting fighter with amazing balance great combination punching and probably one of the fastest Heavyweights ever only Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali are in Mike Tysons league in the speed department and i think his speed contributed alot to his power. The problem is for Mike Tyson is that at the time he come along most of the 80s Heavyweight talent were shot fighters and plus Mike Tyson never beat a great fighter in there prime so we will never know how good he really was because he was never really tested and i think you only see the best in a fighter when there severely challenged because you see there heart, will, and you see them got into another gear amongst plenty of other things sadly for Mike Tyson his era wasn't that great so there was no fighter at that time to really teste but in my opinion he could of been of the best Heavyweights ever and only very few Heavyweights could beat Mike Tyson at his peak.

Holyfield and Lennox would still have beat him at any point!

Originally Posted by rjj tszyu

Originally Posted by ssss

Exciting fighter with amazing balance great combination punching and probably one of the fastest Heavyweights ever only Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali are in Mike Tysons league in the speed department and i think his speed contributed alot to his power. The problem is for Mike Tyson is that at the time he come along most of the 80s Heavyweight talent were shot fighters and plus Mike Tyson never beat a great fighter in there prime so we will never know how good he really was because he was never really tested and i think you only see the best in a fighter when there severely challenged because you see there heart, will, and you see them got into another gear amongst plenty of other things sadly for Mike Tyson his era wasn't that great so there was no fighter at that time to really teste but in my opinion he could of been of the best Heavyweights ever and only very few Heavyweights could beat Mike Tyson at his peak.

Holyfield and Lennox would still have beat him at any point!

I wouldn't say Holyfield or Lennox beat Tyson in his peak years.

Originally Posted by rjj tszyu

Originally Posted by ssss

Exciting fighter with amazing balance great combination punching and probably one of the fastest Heavyweights ever only Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali are in Mike Tysons league in the speed department and i think his speed contributed alot to his power. The problem is for Mike Tyson is that at the time he come along most of the 80s Heavyweight talent were shot fighters and plus Mike Tyson never beat a great fighter in there prime so we will never know how good he really was because he was never really tested and i think you only see the best in a fighter when there severely challenged because you see there heart, will, and you see them got into another gear amongst plenty of other things sadly for Mike Tyson his era wasn't that great so there was no fighter at that time to really teste but in my opinion he could of been of the best Heavyweights ever and only very few Heavyweights could beat Mike Tyson at his peak.

Holyfield and Lennox would still have beat him at any point!

The young wreckless Lennox Lewis would of been KO'ed and so would the older more intelligent Lewis even when Lewis went with Steward he still got caught against lesser fighters and was hurt against Ray Mercer Shannon Briggs Zeljko Mavrovic and against an older Evander Holyfield and as for Evander Holyfield he could fight smart but often he let his pride get in the way and he took far too much punishment like against Bert Cooper Alex Stewart just to name a few and no one could get brave and stand toe to toe with a prime Mike Tyson in my opinion anyway.

Originally Posted by ssss

Originally Posted by rjj tszyu

Originally Posted by ssss

Exciting fighter with amazing balance great combination punching and probably one of the fastest Heavyweights ever only Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali are in Mike Tysons league in the speed department and i think his speed contributed alot to his power. The problem is for Mike Tyson is that at the time he come along most of the 80s Heavyweight talent were shot fighters and plus Mike Tyson never beat a great fighter in there prime so we will never know how good he really was because he was never really tested and i think you only see the best in a fighter when there severely challenged because you see there heart, will, and you see them got into another gear amongst plenty of other things sadly for Mike Tyson his era wasn't that great so there was no fighter at that time to really teste but in my opinion he could of been of the best Heavyweights ever and only very few Heavyweights could beat Mike Tyson at his peak.

Holyfield and Lennox would still have beat him at any point!

The young wreckless Lennox Lewis would of been KO'ed and so would the older more intelligent Lewis even when Lewis went with Steward he still got caught against lesser fighters and was hurt against Ray Mercer Shannon Briggs Zeljko Mavrovic and against an older Evander Holyfield and as for Evander Holyfield he could fight smart but often he let his pride get in the way and he took far too much punishment like against Bert Cooper Alex Stewart just to name a few and no one could get brave and stand toe to toe with a prime Mike Tyson in my opinion anyway.

I totally agree

Holyfield has tyson number he was tougher mentally and there no way tyson can knock out a prime Holyfeild. be the same wear him down and knock himout like he did last time they fought dont bring up Tyson was not prime because Holyfeild was older more battle worn and heart condition. Tyson is lucky he fought in the weakest era of boxing since the rock maybe weaker even.

On the whole he should be classed as great.

However without Cus he was never whole.
Tyson lacked mental stability. This presented itself as a lack of fortitude when up against tough times. Tyson had he been with Cus would have been a far better boxer.

Originally Posted by tysonbruno

Originally Posted by rjj tszyu

Originally Posted by ssss

Exciting fighter with amazing balance great combination punching and probably one of the fastest Heavyweights ever only Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali are in Mike Tysons league in the speed department and i think his speed contributed alot to his power. The problem is for Mike Tyson is that at the time he come along most of the 80s Heavyweight talent were shot fighters and plus Mike Tyson never beat a great fighter in there prime so we will never know how good he really was because he was never really tested and i think you only see the best in a fighter when there severely challenged because you see there heart, will, and you see them got into another gear amongst plenty of other things sadly for Mike Tyson his era wasn't that great so there was no fighter at that time to really teste but in my opinion he could of been of the best Heavyweights ever and only very few Heavyweights could beat Mike Tyson at his peak.

Holyfield and Lennox would still have beat him at any point!

I wouldn't say Holyfield or Lennox beat Tyson in his peak years.

Maybe not but I think they would have done. Who did Tyson actually beat at his peak? Bruno? bum. Holmes? Old man. Spinks? Lightheavy. Ruddock? Look what Lennox did to him. Tyson was never as good as the media made him out to be. A lot of people (me included) thought he was better than he really was and a lot of fighters were beaten before they got in the ring because they were frightened of him. An ideal example is Bonecrusher he went in clearly just to survive and then when he hit Tyson right at the end he nearly KO'd him in fact I think that had he landed that punch in the middle rounds he would have knocked Tyson out