Here goes... This is going to Pi$$ the Tyson fans off. I was a huge Tyson fan back in the day. Yeah Tyson was a badA$$ and that’s what made him Tyson. But really go back and look at the fighters he fought when he was a steam roller. Tell me how many could be heavyweight champs today. ( Holmes in prime could and maybe Spinks ) besides that none of them…
Tyson fought a couple people but most where nobody's... Most ended their careers with not so good records.
Trevor Berbick = 50-11-1
James Smith = 44-17-1
Pinklon Thomas = 43-7-1
Tony Tucker = 58-7
Tyrell Biggs = 30-10
Larry Holmes = 69-6 (was past his prime @ 39 years old)
Tony Tubbs = 45-10
Michael Spinks = 31-1 ( finally a man with a good pro career and not older then egupt)
Frank Bruno = 40-5 ( Lost to every good fighter he ever faced )
Carl Williams = 30-10
James 'Buster' Douglas = 38-6-1 ( Biggest upset in Boxing History ) O yeah and of the six L's Tyson was not of them ... :-)
Henry Tillman = 25-6
Alex Stewart = 43-10
Donovan Ruddock 37-5 ( fought him two times ) The went to prison
after he came back same story....fought half ass fighters and then when put up against the Real deal Holyfield Tyson was exposed and TKO'd in the first fight, then came back to make a ass of himself in the second fight... Then came Lennox which in my opinion Tyson should have retired after this one... then a lost to Williams and now McBride... What a shame ... Everyone wants to believe Tyson belongs in the top 10 fighters of all time... How sad it that when you consider the fighters of the past... That another post sometime down the road...
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