Quote Originally Posted by ross View Post
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
Mike Tyson didn't have the best power Foreman or Shavers did, i would say Patterson was also faster than Tyson handspeed wise. Tyson had the best resilience are you frigging kidding me ? Aren't you forgetting Ali, McCall, Tua, and he didn't have the best stamina either.......

Mike Tyson was a grown ass man the choices he made in his life were his own fault, no one else's so stop making out he was some stupid young kid who was led astray, he was always a nasty piece of work even when he was a kid.............

And the reason why people aren't calling him the greatest like you think he is because he wasn't. He was exposed for having weak mentality and a questionale heart and simply put he wern't as good as people thought, even in his fights with Tony Tucker, James Tillis, proved this and the reason why people turned on him because he was piece of shit as a human being, for what he done inside and outside the ring. Like i said it was his own fault no one elses.