Quote Originally Posted by BIG H
Lyle, please watch the Tucker and Green fights again, Green had a couple off spells of throwing a load of shots that were blocked, but was comprehensively beaten and did Tucker really give Tyson fits?? I don't think so, he had a couple of good spells but never looked anything like winning the fight
Compared to oooohhh I don't know Tyson's fights vs Berbick and Spinks I would say they did bother him A LOT. And when you compare Tucker and Green to Holmes, they come up well short of his greatness so you HAVE to figure Holmes would not only have an easy time taking Tyson the distance but he'd frustrate him too. Here are some things to think about...

1) The farther you take Tyson int he fight the better shot you have at beating him. It's like a Crocodile dragging a Zebra into deep water, the Zebra eventually realizes he's fucked and gets drowned.

2) The longer Holmes went in fights the better, he could outpoint pretty much anyone BUT he could also KO people too. The DILLUSIONAL Tyson fans (not all of them) fancy a Prime Tyson as "a defensive guru" and "a slick boxer who was more than just power punching"....not quite true if you ask me watch Tyson take uppercut after uppercut after uppercut...it doesn't matter if it's 1986 or 1996 or 2006 he's just a sucker for an uppercut as well as jabs and right hands....people made the mistake of trying to out hook Tyson...not a goood idea.

3) Tyson's style was picture perfect for tall boxers with good jabs. He can have all the head movement in the world but if you're accurate with the jab you're accurate I mean just because someone's head is moving doesn't mean you'll ALWAYS miss, it's something called TIMING and Holmes had one of the best jabs of all time.

4) Tyson = Bully and Holmes was from the Ali school of psychological training. Let him drop kick Tyson the way he drop kicked Berbick and Tyson would be done RIGHT THERE...Tyson would back down and just get walked over.