What was Mike Tyson's greatest win ?

[marbleheadmaui]

Geepers if KOing a 37 year old Holmes who hadn't fought in 18 months was his biggest win? Doesn't say a lot does it? Not saying you're wrong, just that that's not much of a biggest win when discussing great fighters.

I think most would say Mike Spinks. Yeah he was a blown up 175, but he WAS the lineal heavy champ. Tony Tucker deserves a mention. A fine heavyweight.

[BIG H]

Geepers if KOing a 37 year old Holmes who hadn't fought in 18 months was his biggest win? Doesn't say a lot does it? Not saying you're wrong, just that that's not much of a biggest win when discussing great fighters.

I think most would say Mike Spinks. Yeah he was a blown up 175, but he WAS the lineal heavy champ. Tony Tucker deserves a mention. A fine heavyweight.

Yeh agreed on Tucker. Together with Ruddock was probably the best fighter Tyson fought (and I mean taking all factors, including stage of their careers)

Tyrell Biggs was a good win. With hindsight he doesn't look 'all that' but I think Tyson ruined him. Before that fight there was a lot of hype about Biggs and what he may achieve.

Spinks will be the one everybody remembers, but Spinks didn't turn up for that fight, so I don't count it.

[Dark Lord Al]

I would have to say either Sammy Scaff or Donnie Long , both were close to being ATG'S.

[Master]

Spinks, destroyed him at his best and last fight with Rooney, all down hill from there. Married to a money grabber who fakes pregnancies and a mother in law from hell, sucked in by King who gets rid of Rooney and brings in people who know very little about Boxing and who massaged Tyson's ego. not that I am bitter or anything, for ruining a potentially great heavyweight champion.

[ross]

Spinks, destroyed him at his best and last fight with Rooney, all down hill from there. Married to a money grabber who fakes pregnancies and a mother in law from hell, sucked in by King who gets rid of Rooney and brings in people who know very little about Boxing and who massaged Tyson's ego. not that I am bitter or anything, for ruining a potentially great heavyweight champion.

Rooney actually said that Mike made alot of mistakes in that fight but obviously Spinks was never going to be able to capitalise.

Steve Lott says the best he saw of Mike was in a charity exhibition with James Tillis. He said he was relaxed and showed more of the form he did in the gym.

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[Master]

Spinks, destroyed him at his best and last fight with Rooney, all down hill from there. Married to a money grabber who fakes pregnancies and a mother in law from hell, sucked in by King who gets rid of Rooney and brings in people who know very little about Boxing and who massaged Tyson's ego. not that I am bitter or anything, for ruining a potentially great heavyweight champion.

Rooney actually said that Mike made alot of mistakes in that fight but obviously Spinks was never going to be able to capitalise.

Steve Lott says the best he saw of Mike was in a charity exhibition with James Tillis. He said he was relaxed and showed more of the form he did in the gym.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

A lot of mistakes in 93 seconds. Yes he probably did but it was his best victory and if it went further the cracks may have appeared but his life was unravelling and Rooney said he did not turn up for training some days. Just imagine if everything stayed the same, Tyson could have been the greatest or at least one of the greatest ever.

[Manju]

Funny, I recently rewatched the Holmes fight. I recall there being very little hype for that fight and few gave Holmes a shot.

But looking back, I wonder why that is. I mean, obviously Holmes was past his prime but he was not terriably so. A lot of people thought he won his last fight against Spinks so he had never been defeated in a convincing manner.

So we are left with an aging, somewhat past his prime HOFer with top-level HW boxing skills vs a young KO artist. I would've thought there would be more than a few thinking Larry could pull one out.

But Tyson's rep at the time was off the charts unbeatable. And dominate he did. Larry had maybe 30 seconds of dancing and outjabbing Tyson. The rest was all Mike.

Tyson's career ended badly but people forget how dominant he was. Well, we do remember but often we qualify that with the notion that he no competition. No Hearns to his Hagler. But maybe he did have competion, namely a HOFer Holmes and and an undefeated Spinks. He was just so good we assumed they were worse at the time than they were.

[marbleheadmaui]

Funny, I recently rewatched the Holmes fight. I recall there being very little hype for that fight and few gave Holmes a shot.

But looking back, I wonder why that is. I mean, obviously Holmes was past his prime but he was not terriably so. A lot of people thought he won his last fight against Spinks so he had never been defeated in a convincing manner.

So we are left with an aging, somewhat past his prime HOFer with top-level HW boxing skills vs a young KO artist. I would've thought there would be more than a few thinking Larry could pull one out.

But Tyson's rep at the time was off the charts unbeatable. And dominate he did. Larry had maybe 30 seconds of dancing and outjabbing Tyson. The rest was all Mike.

Tyson's career ended badly but people forget how dominant he was. Well, we do remember but often we qualify that with the notion that he no competition. No Hearns to his Hagler. But maybe he did have competion, namely a HOFer Holmes and and an undefeated Spinks. He was just so good we assumed they were worse at the time than they were.

Much of the reason novbody gave Holmes as chance was the way Holmes himself talked before the fight. He hadn't fought in 18 months and he said things like "I'll know how to stay on my stool."