28 years ago today...

[Bobthepen]

God damn, why did Mike have to shit the bed against Buster Douglas? Tyson vs Holyfield circa 1990 would have been incredible.

Yup. He'd have got knocked out by Holyfield instead.

[El Kabong]

God damn, why did Mike have to shit the bed against Buster Douglas? Tyson vs Holyfield circa 1990 would have been incredible.

Yup. He'd have got knocked out by Holyfield instead.

It's more like "Why did Buster Douglas show up to fight"....Mike didn't lose that fight as much as Buster won it. Buster fought his ass off, he did a great job. Yeah we hear all the "Mike's training consisted of drugs & hookers" but Douglas really fought well.

I just wish between the Holyfield & Lewis fights that Tyson would have had a go at more of the other top fighters of that era: Bowe, Foreman, Mercer, Morrison, Moorer, McCall, Rahman, Briggs, etc...I think they would have been very fun fights to watch regardless of how close they were. I still wanted Tyson to fight John Ruiz when Holyfield had such trouble with him, Chris Byrd would have been a decent fight, Valuev, Vitali, Wladimir, Brewster....people were intrigued by the aura of Tyson, nobody will deny that but he could have really had some more interesting fights in his career, but the very same can be said of every other fighter

[Master]

God damn, why did Mike have to shit the bed against Buster Douglas? Tyson vs Holyfield circa 1990 would have been incredible.

Yup. He'd have got knocked out by Holyfield instead.

I think they would have had a triology with Tyson winning the first but losing the next two as he was losing it slowly. Either way by the time Bowe and Lewis were coming up Tyson would have eventually lost to one of them. Prison may have preserved him for a bit.

[Beanflicker]

Yup. He'd have got knocked out by Holyfield instead.

You could be right, I don't rightly know who to pick in that one. But I think it would be a hell of a lot better than their eventual 1996 showdown,.

[ross]

Yup. He'd have got knocked out by Holyfield instead.

You could be right, I don't rightly know who to pick in that one. But I think it would be a hell of a lot better than their eventual 1996 showdown,.

For sure!

Even though back in 90 or 91 his skills had declined, his fights with Rudduck proved he still had a fighters attitude and stamina and was active and getting rounds in.

Compare that to someone who hadn't trained for 4 years and had just 16 and a half minutes of action in prep.

People slate Tysons win over Holmes but Holmes was only out 18 months before he started training for for Tyson!

[Bobthepen]

Yup. He'd have got knocked out by Holyfield instead.

You could be right, I don't rightly know who to pick in that one. But I think it would be a hell of a lot better than their eventual 1996 showdown,.

For sure!

Even though back in 90 or 91 his skills had declined, his fights with Rudduck proved he still had a fighters attitude and stamina and was active and getting rounds in.

Compare that to someone who hadn't trained for 4 years and had just 16 and a half minutes of action in prep.

People slate Tysons win over Holmes but Holmes was only out 18 months before he started training for for Tyson!

Sauce for the goose et al. Holyfield was in his mid thirties and considered by most to be shot when he fought Tyson. He wasn't shot, but he wasn't the fighter he was five years earlier.

[ross]

Yup. He'd have got knocked out by Holyfield instead.

You could be right, I don't rightly know who to pick in that one. But I think it would be a hell of a lot better than their eventual 1996 showdown,.

For sure!

Even though back in 90 or 91 his skills had declined, his fights with Rudduck proved he still had a fighters attitude and stamina and was active and getting rounds in.

Compare that to someone who hadn't trained for 4 years and had just 16 and a half minutes of action in prep.

People slate Tysons win over Holmes but Holmes was only out 18 months before he started training for for Tyson!

Sauce for the goose et al. Holyfield was in his mid thirties and considered by most to be shot when he fought Tyson. He wasn't shot, but he wasn't the fighter he was five years earlier.

He may not have been the same fighter but was Mike any better? Not fighting or even training for 4 years!!? That he had any success at all after prison is testiment to the natural ability he was born with.

Holyfield has been proven to have bought steroids and of your naive enough to believe he never took them then your are deluded. Holyfield as and was a cheat.

[Beanflicker]

Holyfield has been proven to have bought steroids and of your naive enough to believe he never took them then your are deluded. Holyfield as and was a cheat.

He was holding them for a friend...

[ross]

Holyfield has been proven to have bought steroids and of your naive enough to believe he never took them then your are deluded. Holyfield as and was a cheat.

He was holding them for a friend...

He actually is quoted as saying he bought them for his dad!

Holyfield is a cheat and a joke and its frustrating to see morons disregard the evidence against him (tiny bollocks, lack of testosterone, heart problems, being caught red handed paying for them etc) and continue to rank him higher than he deserves. Lance armstrong got stripped of his titles, why nt Holyfield and every other dirty fucking cheat?