Quote Originally Posted by JT Rock View Post
I miss Iron Mike, just was reading the Cotto-Jennings article and there was a youtube link to a Tyson training video..

I know its been covered a 10000000000 times, but he had all the tools to be the best fighter of all time, its a shame that he got in bed with the wrong people, literally and figuretively...

I always laugh at the people that said Tyson had no heart and never got up off the canvas to win a fight... people dont realize that anytime he went down it was because he took a sustained beating and absorbed an inordinate amount of punishment that would have crumbled a lot of fighters much earlier in the fight..

He caught a beatdown by Douglas and still kept coming forward and digging buster until he got waffled and still got up at 10

Crushed by Holyfield

Lewis put a lot of leather on him until he wore him down and caught him
A great fighter against certain styles of boxer.

IMO Tyson would always have trouble with bigger fighters he could not hurt and who had the strenth and skill to tie him up on the inside.


But what I will say for Tyson is that IMO he is the most exciting boxer to set foot in the ring coz you never knew what was going to happen inside or outside the rules.