Some thought on Tyson

[El Kabong]

Rooney had drink issues and never did it with any other fighter subsequently.

Atlas is the type of trainer that the boxer would want to slap because he seems to play to the TV screen and try and make it like rocky movie.

Both true...but some trainers will be that way, and some won't.

I think Rooney saw his dream crash and had trouble handling it when Tyson left him. I think Atlas is just built the way where he's urging intensity from a fighter and it makes him steal some spotlight.

[Spicoli]

Head shots Lyle, rang his bell off the ropes via right then caught him hooks in close. Dude Wlad was a defending champion and Mercer was a ghost, years removed from warring with Lewis and Holy. But ok ok

It's a weird contrast Teddy and Rooney. Rooney always struck me as calm, comfortable in the corner and self. Teddy does indeed let his passion overwhelm his brain and subsequent message, theatrical but never looked like his heart wasn't in it.

[El Kabong]

Head shots Lyle, rang his bell off the ropes via right then caught him hooks in close. Dude Wlad was a defending champion and Mercer was a ghost, years removed from warring with Lewis and Holy. But ok ok

It's a weird contrast Teddy and Rooney. Rooney always struck me as calm, comfortable in the corner and self. Teddy does indeed let his passion overwhelm his brain and subsequent message, theatrical but never looked like his heart wasn't in it.

Wlad was 26, Mercer was 40-41 I think and Ray was working on his comeback after a layoff. After the "loss" to Lewis, Mercer was 7(6 KO's)-0-0 going in to the fight. But whatever every top fighter fights an old dude eventually.


Rooney and Atlas have just vanished from the training scene...it's ridiculous. Manny Steward always had a good stable of fighters, Freddy Roach always has a good stable of fighters. How did those guys just disappear from the scene like that?

[IamInuit]

Reducing Tysons style to "peak a boo" is ridiculous. It was much more then that. It may have turned into that a year or so after Cus left and Mike fell in love with his power and celebrity but its what developed from it that made Tyson special.

[Andre]

Reducing Tysons style to "peak a boo" is ridiculous. It was much more then that. It may have turned into that a year or so after Cus left and Mike fell in love with his power and celebrity but its what developed from it that made Tyson special.

I agree makes it sound all too easy. It takes great tenacity to move in close under fire and to hunt down openings like that beneath the swings grapples and hooks, it isnt to be sneered at. Some say this and that about some of the opposition throughout the ages as well but at any one time whats available is the hardest hitting men in the world with balls enough to seek out the others.

[El Kabong]

Reducing Tysons style to "peak a boo" is ridiculous. It was much more then that. It may have turned into that a year or so after Cus left and Mike fell in love with his power and celebrity but its what developed from it that made Tyson special.

I certainly didn't mean to do that. Tyson is the perfection of the style nonstop head movement, quick hands, great solid base, good footwork, good chin, and of course the big power.

He devolved into a guy looking for one big punch but that was also due to his age. It's a very tough style to keep up because it uses so much energy