Was there any boxer in history more athletic than Mike Tyson?

[Truth]

a bit off topic but since people have brought in athletes from other sports HERSCHEL WALKER how many people do u know who built up a frame like that by doing bodyweight excercises and to reply to an earlier posts saying that you need to be more in shape to play football than box is criminal. Football requires little more than the need for a slight ability to be able to recuperate in the 30 seconds between each play. Boxing is much harder because it taxes the aerobic system as well.

[generalbulldog]

a bit off topic but since people have brought in athletes from other sports HERSCHEL WALKER how many people do u know who built up a frame like that by doing bodyweight excercises and to reply to an earlier posts saying that you need to be more in shape to play football than box is criminal. Football requires little more than the need for a slight ability to be able to recuperate in the 30 seconds between each play. Boxing is much harder because it taxes the aerobic system as well.

Exactly. Boxing is an hardcore cardiovascular exercise. Let's stop comparing NBA or NFL players to boxers, it's two different sports. NBA and NFL players while being athletic for their sports also get significant rest time, with only playing half of the time, in spurts, having timeouts, halftime as in the case of the NFL and in the NBA it's not like they are running 48 minutes nonstop, they also get little bit of extended breaks like when a foul is called, timeouts, halftime, ball being out of play, etc. In boxing they are constantly moving with their hands held high and also throwing punches for 3 minutes, with a short 1 minute rest between rounds. IMO boxing is just more taxing when it comes to cardiovascular activity, not to mention the damage the body accumulates from the opponents blows.

Just because a guy does well in a particular sport does not mean he does well in another, you can speculate all you want, but that is all it is speculation. Everyone remembers when Michael Jordan tried to play baseball? Everyone was saying he's going to be greater than Babe Ruth or just as good and that baseball would be easy for him to play because it's not physically demanding as basketball, well how did that work out?