Quote Originally Posted by Mr140 View Post
I called Larry old man which he was at 38 also lets not forget he not fougth in some time and had 14 days to train so i say he was past it. As for those champions you are talking about are you speaking about the title holders he beat or the real champions that beat him just to ask because during his time as champ i dont remember him beating a great champion in his prime. Tyson was in one of the weakest era of boxing when he was a champ only one weaker was Rocky but atleast he beat everyone he fought though. I just think Tyson power was not the greatest ever he knocked out alot bums but when fought Douglas and Holyfeild he him self tasted the canvas i just think because everytime he went into a big fight he lost and his power did not seem a factor in those fights like Foreman did in some of his fights vs atg but that just a thought.
This thread is about Mike at his very best before Don King messed up his life and boxing life by giving him anything he liked, including not training properly


Before Foreman fought Joe Frazier, which great boxer did he dispose of??

Rocky was not a real heavy weight, great for his size and weight, but tiny at 186 pounds compared to Mikes 220?

Mike would have killed him, there is simply no comparison between the two and how you guys could rate Rocky as a harder puncher beats me also

I would like us to imagine these great punchers fighting each other at their very peak

It would be Foreman winning?

Or it would be Tyson, winning?

Like I said before foreman was awesome against short heavy weights and I think he would have been the only one to dispense with Mike at Mikes very best

The post prison Mike Tyson was just a shadow of the real great Mike Tyson, and this still saddens and disappoints me to this very day that we were never to see the true potential of possibly the greatest heavy weight in boxier history Mike Tyson was a superlative athlete before he messed up his life, his biggest competitor was his own mind

How some of you guys can rate Joe Louis as a harder hitter than Mike, Joe almost lost to light punching Billy Con. Billy Con would have been murdered in the first round by Mike.

Admittedly all we are dong in trying our best to imagine the outcome of hypothetical great heavy weight contest brought up to our future

Alan