Quote Originally Posted by ross View Post
Steve Lott said exactly the same thing!

What Steve Lot also said was when Mike was with the original team he knew they knew what they were doing and respected and listened to them, he had zero respect for any other trainers and wouldnt do as he was told under them, he even gave Roach the runaround.

What Steve was getting at is if Mike was to have a frustrating round, he knew and was reassured by the fact he was going back to the corner to hear some sense that he knew he would listen to. He would also have been properly prepared so inbetween rounds all hed have to do is listen and follow instructions.

In round 3 of this fight we get a little glimpse of Mike using speed and putting punches together and when he does it Holyfield has no answer, he doesnt fire back, just stands there getting batted around with his guard up. A properly trained Mike would have been placing those punches better, been jumping in to new positions around Holyfield and firing the right hook to the body and right uppercut and wouldnt have been letting up. Its only when Mike lost heart again and stopped doing it that Holyfield was able to fight back. The Mike that beat Spinks was a different animal, that Mike wouldnt have let Holyfield out of the first
Im not sure any version of Tyson could have beat Holyfield and Im a big Tyson fan. Styles make fights and Tyson would always have trouble with a guy like Evander who forces him to fight off the backfoot. In the 2nd fight Evander had even more leg strength and I could see from the 1st round it was gonna be a bad night for Tyson .