Yea Lyle I think your a awsome poster for the most part,but you undieing love for Foreman,Dempsey etc.. and all the other old school fighters is a bit of tunnel vision on your part

TYSON WAS A ONE OF A KIND A PURE EXPLOSIVE PACKAGE...His combonation of attributes did no exist back in the old days,there was no one remotely like him NOT EVEN CLOSE..There is more reason and substantial evidence to conclude Tyson would have beaten the old school fighters..

I mean sure there were great Fighter planes and awsome pilots in WW2 but if you were to pit them against fighter jets they would get fried!!! its called evolution of things, when there is something good out there it has its time and after a while (years,decade,etc) something better replaces it...That is the case 99% of the time with a rare 1% being the exception..

Lets say Tyson was around in the late 60's-70's,Tyson would have had a Cus D'mato his whole career to mold him guide him and mentor him(I can stop the convo right here) but what he had to offer ESPECIALLY in the that time frame would have been as rare and maybe borderline mythical as a Unicorn!!!!!

Tyson would have destroyed Dempsey,Tunney, Foreman,Frazier,Norton,Ron Lyle,Marciano(not in the 70's) and I say he would have even beaten ALI