Quote Originally Posted by BoomBoom View Post
If you evaluate his ring accomplishments and take his personal life out of the picture, he was a great fighter..for a few years Tyson of the 80 was an ATG heavyweight. 90-00s Tyson was to par with a Hahman or someone on that level who I dont rate anywhere near an all time great heavyweight but he was still decent in the 90s. People say he was overrated looking at his career now that hes retired but if Tyson retired 44-1 after beating Seldon. If that happened people would be arguing that he was a top 3 heavyweight of all time. Unfortunately he tayed in the game too long. The Douglas fight didnt really do the damage to his legacy imo. He lost a fight, it happens to almost evry fighter, but it was Holyfield and everything after that that did the damage cause his skills were so diminished.

TBH it was not even really a case of Tysons skills being diminshed rather then more of a case of Tyson not caring enough to stay on point...He decided to rely on power alone and not box....

People tend to forget (Mainly due to his habit of crushing his opp) that Tyson was a tremendous boxer...Mike really did not need to go for the KO...It was hard to outbox Mike if he did choose to box....Any time Tyson used the jab he was a dangerous fighter all around