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Re: Lets end the Mike Tyson debate
I think a lot of Tyson's opponents are criminally underrated, best example is Tony TNT Tucker who was an absolute beast. Huge power and amazing boxing skills. Tyson was the only guy to beat him until he was 35 or so, when he lost to a young Lennox Lewis.
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Who the fuck did Gene Tunney beat besides Dempsey himself? Greb, a middleweight? Who also beat him? Sheeesh, these old timers get a free pass on everything.
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Greb, Dempsey, Carpintier, Tommy Loughran, Tommy Gibbons, Battling Levinsky....Tunney fought some good competition.Originally Posted by Beanflicker
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Re: Lets end the Mike Tyson debate
Not as a heavyweight champion.Greb, Dempsey, Carpintier, Tommy Loughran, Tommy Gibbons, Battling Levinsky....Tunney fought some good competition.
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That's true.Not as a heavyweight champion.Greb, Dempsey, Carpintier, Tommy Loughran, Tommy Gibbons, Battling Levinsky....Tunney fought some good competition.
He was good for his time, but that was the stone age of boxing. It's like comparing an AR-15 to a musket.
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Can you imagine transplanting a guy like Tony Tucker back then to fight all those undersized, scared white boys?
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He probably would not be allowed to fight them because of his colour and then size. Although I would not mind seeing a raw Dempsey try that fought Willard or even Firpo.
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Tunney was a Lightheavyweight....the fuck dude?Not as a heavyweight champion.Greb, Dempsey, Carpintier, Tommy Loughran, Tommy Gibbons, Battling Levinsky....Tunney fought some good competition.
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Nonsense. Currently, there's not a single black american Heavyweight of note in the world-sport of Boxing even though there's about maybe 20 million black american men.
These non-black fighters of the teens and 20s came from poverty and rough backgrounds. It ain't a fighter's color that makes for a fighter...
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That and back then you couldn't get paid shit for playing basketball or football it was boxing and baseball in the 1920's & 30's and that was it
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Gene was also heavyweight champion, and that is what I am comparing his record too.Tunney was a Lightheavyweight....the fuck dude?Not as a heavyweight champion.Greb, Dempsey, Carpintier, Tommy Loughran, Tommy Gibbons, Battling Levinsky....Tunney fought some good competition.
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
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