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I didn't mean to imply that Tyson starting favourite means he should win. I believe if you took all the best heavyweights in history in their pomp - which includes Tyson - popular opinion would make him the favourite. Whether or not he would have beat Ali or Foreman or Marciano or Gary Mason.... we'll never know.
Yes and he was the youngest heavyweight champion of all time....just pointing out that a Tyson who wept before fights wasn't all that far in the past. But please feel free to elaborate on how Tyson grew emotionally and psychologically in the 7 years between this and 1988.Quote:
Originally Posted by ross
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Originally Posted by El KabongYes and he was the youngest heavyweight champion of all time....just pointing out that a Tyson who wept before fights wasn't all that far in the past. But please feel free to elaborate on how Tyson grew emotionally and psychologically in the 7 years between this and 1988.Quote:
Originally Posted by ross
I don't think Tyson grew up emotionally and psychologically until after he retired. :)
However, that is besides the point I was originally trying to make. Whereas Lewis was given to the periodic lackadaisical attitude, which earned him two knockout losses which he later avenged, Tyson was not. Regardless of whether he won or lost, Tyson went in there trying to rip your head off. His head was a mess.... but inside the ring he was like a caged animal. If the Lewis that got KO'ed against Rahman and McCall shows up against prime Tyson, he gets KTFO'ed..... I don't care how much bigger Lewis is. Otherwise, the saying that a great big man beats a great little man has a lot of truth to it. Prime Tyson versus a prime (and laser-focused) Lewis would be a helluva fight. But I think Lewis takes it over 50% of the time.
I think the general consensus was that Tyson would win until Fenster causes trouble and starts stirring.
Lewis would be the best opponent Tyson would have faced but I do no think he had enough to beat Tyson only to survive 12 round. If Lennox opened up he would have been sparked out. Even when they fought Lennox was too reluctant to let his hands go and Manny Stewart was pleading with him to finish him off.
Are you for real?Quote:
Originally Posted by El KabongYes and he was the youngest heavyweight champion of all time....just pointing out that a Tyson who wept before fights wasn't all that far in the past. But please feel free to elaborate on how Tyson grew emotionally and psychologically in the 7 years between this and 1988.Quote:
Originally Posted by ross
You cant comprehend the difference in maturity between a 15 year old and a man who had been in the biggest fights the world had known at 22?
The Tyson of 1988 knocks the big lumbering oaf that is Lennox Lewis out inside of 5 rounds.