Mike Tyson. Underrated or Overrated?

[Andre]

Its difficult to say really. I'm a huge Tyson fan, but he tends to be overrated somewhat. I disagree with those that say he was past his prime when he lost to Douglas, he didn't take the fight seriously and barely trained for it. I think he would steam through any of today's heavyweights when he was at his best, because although his opposition wasn't the strongest, he was the closest i've seen to an invincible fighter, it just didn't seemlike it was possible to beat him to me. In terms of achievement i wouldn't say he's one of the best ever, but he was an animal in those early years.

I agree totally about the Douglas comments

Mike was not past his prime when he fought Douglas he was under trained over confident and believed in his power too much to think Douglas had a remote chance at beating him....Foolishness cost him...

Kind of Like Lennox Lewis losing to Rahman...he took Rahman the same as Tyson took Douglas and it cost him

Douglas also got saved by the bell and after feeling the worse of what Mike could hand out, went back out there ,upped it another gear and said lets give it our all. It was a good fight then.


Mentally Mike was overrated by other fighters.

[Andre]

Funny thing mentioning Spinks Holmes 2 .

I just watched it yesterday and counted the clean blows and had Spinks winning it in a real close fight.

The 14th is what had the public stirred,that and Spinks fighting fighting off the backfoot and countering not taking the initiative as the Champ.

In the 14th I had Spinks ahead by 7 clear shots until he got caught. But it wasnt a knock down,he did not get counted so his glove or knee couldnt of touched as he took off; he got wobbled and got hit hard and clean again after that, but Michael even got Larry with more shots than Larry hit him with between the wobble and the final bell .

But everyone emotionally gave that round to Larry.maybe rightly I dont know. Not on clear shots though.

Now days if Spinks had touched canvas and got counted and we were forced to give a 10/8 round ,it would have been LArrys fight, thats how close I had it anyway. I think punch stat ended up 40% Holmes 43% Spinks.