The thing with Mike Tyson is when you look at all his attributes at his best power, speed, elusiveness, sharpness, resiliance, stamina and skill, you could not make any fighter in history a dead cert to beat him, he was capable of doing what he did to Spinks and Holmes to anyone.

Purists dont like him because of what he let himself become but while he was the golden boy, the spokesman for the New York police department and the FBI, advertising Pepsi and his own nintendo games (no other fighter has had his appeal) people were saying that Mike would beat Ali.

Its only after King led him astray and basicly ruined him as a fighter that the media started to turn on him and every Tom Dick and Harry threw law suits at him that he became vilified, all his excellent work was quickly forgotten, that is until people moan about the state of the heavys and ask where the next Tyson is coming from to clean up the division and dominate