Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
In his prime you could count on one hand how many hard punches he took, Tucker in the first, Bonecrusher in the last round, Bruno's left hook, that's how good his defence was. Also many seasoned fighters were not afraid of him, they went in and got beat good such as Thomas, Biggs and Berbick. The fight with Rudduck showed he could take a shot and came back from a bad 6th round. You cannot deny his defence or his sharp punching power.
He had a good chin but not the heart to go along with it, you mention the fight with Ruddock, but he was beating the heck out of Ruddock. Until Ruddock landing a weird left hook as Tyson was coming in out of desperation, and even then Tyson didn't take that many hard shots, only few short uppercuts and a long right hand thats about it.