Mike Tyson was the hardest puncher ever?

[CutMeMick]

Tysons def. one of the top hardest punchers not only in HW history but also All Time.

However he is not THEE hardest puncher.

Above Tyson all time I'd rate:

"Bazooka" Gomez
"Brown Bomber" Louis
Shavers
Marciano
Fitzsimmons
"The Mighty Atom" Wilde
"The Hawk" Jackson

[CutMeMick]

Just curious, how often do you think a new poster creates a thread about Mike Tyson being either the best HW of all time or the hardest puncher of all time?

I've been here just under 6 months, & I'm sure this is at least the 4th I've seen in that time.

Jaz having been here for over 4 yrs.

I can't tell you how many, I've lost count. Some of my favorite repeat threads.

Naz vs. _________ <---- Insert name
What if Naz....
Mike Tyson vs. __________ <---- Insert name of any all time Heavy.
What if Ali....
What if Tyson....

[Alan McDougall]

Man i am so sick of people saying how great a puncher Tyson was and how he was better then Foreman and all that crap just dont get it. Tyson knocked out old men and bums Foreman knocked out Atg and in quicker fashion sometimes all you got to do is look who they knocked out. And you while see by far that Foreman was knocking out the better men.

You obviously did not fight him , if you had then you would have become fatally sick.

Old men and bums,? Three world heavy weight champs bums? Larry Holmes a bum?

peace

[The Congressman]

Sam Peters.

[El Kabong]

Tyson, much like Larry Holmes, didn't have many rivalries in his prime. He fought Holyfield and Lewis when he was past his best. Frank Bruno and Donovan Rudduck are the only guys I think had a good kind of even rivalry with Tyson....and it's kind of disappointing because those guys weren't all-time greats. Tyson missed out on proving himself vs some really interesting competition as well: Bowe, Briggs, Morrison, Moorer, and Foreman.

And because of Tyson's style and attitude he gets the Ali and Marciano treatment, he's either vastly overrated or underrated.

[Majesty]

Didn't Larry Holmes as an old man beat Ray Mercer?

[paddy448]

Hey I am new but a boxing fan of many years

For the past few years I have concentrated on the heavy weights , over time

By carefully watching videos and TV of great heavy weight fights over the the last century and even into this century of 2009 I am convinced at his best Mike Tyson was both the hardest puncher in heavy weight boxing history. And potentially the greatest of all time, until sadly his money grabbing wife mother in-law and Don King came in and messed up his boxing life

He punched much like the great Joe Louis, short hard and accurate, but with much more power

What people don't remember is he was bigger and stronger than the likes of Sonny Liston, as big as George Foreman in fact, but 100% dynamic muscle

He was the most magnificent physical specimen ever to embrace the boxing arena and it still greatly saddens me that he was never allowed to fulfil his true awesome boxing potential


George Foreman , a really nice guy, also was a very hard puncher maybe the next hardest after Tyson at his very best

Tyson might have had problems with the very tall Foreman and his powerful clubbing punches. Foreman liked fighting shorter opponents and this might have been a factor if both had met at the very best

Alan of South Africa

id have to say foreman, could of been tyson tho well never no. id love to get all the great heavy weights of yester year and get them on one of those electronic punch machines, then wed no

[Mr140]

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.

[Alan McDougall]

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

[Mr140]

Alan post prison Buster Douglas beat Tyson and during his prime didnt beat anyone that was great and that was still in there prime. Tyson lost all his big fights and during his prime beat mostly bums so i dont see how he can be consider so great there no solid proof of it for me dude because him competion was weak in prime when he fought the top guys of his era he lost.

[Spicoli]

Have always been equally impressed with his combination speed early career.Of course speed translates but the last thing to go they say is your natural power and as he faded in career,lost timing and ability/willingness to set up,his raw power alone was not enough in the big battles...nor some of the smaller ones.Now the Botha one punch KO ,that was a hellacious 6 inch righthand bomb.That said,He has no one to blame for his circumstances pre or post prison but himself.Some times your only as good as the company you keep.


Lol.Mick that sig is a killer,have to scroll the entire page to read

[TitoFan]

No Mike Tyson wasn't the hardest puncher ever, he might not even make it into the top 10 heavyweights P4P.

Bigger than Foreman?!?!?! George was 6'4 220 in his prime and even bigger when he won the title his second go round.

Tyson's strength was his speed and combination punching...he could hit hard but not like Foreman, nowhere close

he's in my top 10, just he's not #1

1.Foreman 1. Foreman
2.Shavers 2. Shavers
3.Louis 3. Tyson
4.Frazier 4. Louis
5.Liston 5. Liston
6.Norton 6. Frazier
7.Marciano 7. Marciano
8.Patterson 8. Tua
9.Tyson 9. Ruddock
10.Tua 10. Norton

really not in any specific order though, just besides #1 Foreman and 9,10 are about right 2-8 can be moved around

Interesting list. I put my own list beside it. No way I have Patterson in the top 10, and I think Tyson is way too low at # 9. Also, there were heavier p4p punchers in other divisions, such as Wilfredo Gomez and Julian Jackson.

[Alan McDougall]

Alan post prison Buster Douglas beat Tyson and during his prime didnt beat anyone that was great and that was still in there prime. Tyson lost all his big fights and during his prime beat mostly bums so i dont see how he can be consider so great there no solid proof of it for me dude because him competion was weak in prime when he fought the top guys of his era he lost.

That is incorrect?

The debatable Buster Douglas fight in Japan , was due to Don King coming into the scene, Mike getting into the fight overweight and under trained, and the beginning of Mike when he began his slide into obscurity and boxing history

After Buster Douglas, the great Mike Tyson was no more. Buster did not defeat Mike, Mike did it all on his own

Alan,

[JazMerkin]

Alan post prison Buster Douglas beat Tyson and during his prime didnt beat anyone that was great and that was still in there prime. Tyson lost all his big fights and during his prime beat mostly bums so i dont see how he can be consider so great there no solid proof of it for me dude because him competion was weak in prime when he fought the top guys of his era he lost.

That is incorrect?

The debatable Buster Douglas fight in Japan , was due to Don King coming into the scene, Mike getting into the fight overweight and under trained, and the beginning of Mike when he began his slide into obscurity and boxing history

After Buster Douglas, the great Mike Tyson was no more. Buster did not defeat Mike, Mike did it all on his own

Alan,

Buster Douglas DID defeat Mike, it remains one of the greatest shows of will I have seen. Douglas' mother had died shortly before the fight & it motivated him to give the performance of his life, he just would not be denied that night.

Also you've said that Foreman was the only HW that could beat Tyson. You do realize that people win fights on decision, it's not like they just keep fighting until someone gets KO'd. With how good his chin & recovery was, I'm convinced that Ali would have beaten him, Tyson thrived on people being afraid to impose themselves on him, Ali wasn't intimidated by anyone.

[BoomBoom]

Its very likely that the hardest puncher of all time never even was world ranked due to lack of skill or a bad chin. As far as known fighters, I would say based on what his opponents have said and his brutal kos, Shavers hit the hardest. Liston, Schmeling, Foreman, all hard punchers. Id say Tyson is up definately up there.