Quote Originally Posted by Sugar_Shaw
Tyson was huge naturally. D'Amato didnt like his fighters using weights in case it caused them to lose agility
I guess with D'Amato, everything was built on offense and good head defense to step inside and land blows off the defense. But when his fighters got old they didn't have the opening off the defense anymore since the defense was gone. But his style was successful, but not for long term boxing.