Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
Well the idea of the thread was to list fighter-trainer pairings that people look back on and go "When the hell did that happen"....when people think Tyson they immediately think Cus D'Mato and Kevin Rooney.
Yeah for sure! The first thing I think of when someone says "Prime Tyson" is Mike bobbing and weaving his way in, avoiding all punches coming his way and landing his own dynamite. When Don King made him sack Rooney he almost immediately lost that and there went his invincibility.

The thing with Tyson was he was finely tuned and the few men that were around him from the beggining (Rooney, D'Amato and Atlas) moulded him into the fighting machine he was in the mid to late eighties, they knew him inside out both physically and mentally and when he no longer had these people around him, in hindsight it was always going to be downhill from there on!