A guy who knows how to fight when hurt has a chance against Tyson. A guy who will hold, run, foul, anything to get some of the heat off of him. Morrison was far too aggressive, and he didn't really do anything well when badly hurt. Didn't clinch well, didn't defend himself well, even tried to move forward without tightening his guard to walk into more punches. Him staggering forward face first into bomb after bomb against Bentt was pretty disturbing, as was his backing up with his hands down while still getting blasted. He's an amazing offensive fighter, but its his defensive weaknesses, ones that keep getting worse the worse he's hurt, that do him in against Tyson. Mike sees him off brutally.
Tyson by knoclout in about 5. However Morrison could back up Tyson if tommy lands the left hook cleanly. Tyson has a deadly hook as well, but Tyson will eventually land flush, and finish Morrison
While that scenario may have been. I'm more aware of the earlier potential Tyson-Morrison bout instead of Morrison-Lewis. It was the ill-fated, never got going HBO Heavyweight tournament. Don King offered Morrison $1 million for Fight One (opponent of Morrison's choice) and then $5 million for Fight Two (Mike Tyson). Morrison attempted to get out of his contract with HBO - to no success and had no choice but to continue with his contest with Lewis. The offer was still there if Morrison successfully defeated Lewis. So if Tyson-Morrison met at the first offer, removing Lewis from the picture, it would still have occured after Buster Mathis Jr. ... and if Morrison had beaten Lewis. Tyson would have been able to keep his WBC strap (Bruno) and meet Morrison in his first defense. That would be my estimate for the potential match-up. But your line-up for future Tyson opponent's sounds familiar, in particular Moorer after Holyfield. But I would need to check that up.
Tyson wanted to regain the undisputed title as he did in his first run and King wanted to deliver it. WBC, WBA, voluntary defense (Holyfield), IBF. Remember Morrison was able to fight on Showtime and was scheduled to have that one fight and was tested and found to have HIV. Thats what deralied everything. Morrison fought Lewis in October of 95, Tyson wasnt going to risk a fight with Morrison before facing Bruno for the title, thats why he faced feather fisted Mathis. I dont think Morrison was signed to King until after the Lewis fight and would have been a fight King wanted for Tyson after the Moorer fight. Moorer made his defense against another King fighter Botha, and would have faced Tyson after Holyfield if Tyson came through.
I don't think, only my opinion that Tyson cared too much about all this. It was solely monetary reasons his second career in boxing. He vacated the WBC title rather than meet mandatory challenger Lennox Lewis, despite step-aside-money prior to the Bruno fight and a court ruling only allowing the Tyson-Bruno title fight to go ahead if the winner faced Lewis. As soon as he gave up the title rather than met Lewis, all the talk of unification vanished. Of course Tyson was not behind these decisions, but the younger Tyson had different views on such boxing matters and more than likely would of demanded such a match up. It took long enough, but just how vocal was he in regards to the Spinks fight in the late 80's. Holyfield was certainly a major mistake by King in what was otherwise a monetary bonanza that was Tyson's second career.
The fight with Moorer was locked in. Moorer got his mandatory out of the way on the undercard of Tyson Holyfield against Francois Botha. Tyson was to fight Moorer next. Instead Holyfield faced Moorer. Tyson did relinquish the WBC belt but King did not have control over Lewis and did Moorer so of course Tyson was going to go after the IBF belt before facing Morrison who was just a contender at that point.
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