If 80's Mike Tyson was fighting right now, would he be more popular than Pac & Floyd?

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    Hell yes!!!!
     
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    If __________ was fighting right now, would he be more popular than Pac & Floyd?

    Set there any past ATG and responses would be yes.
     
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    Yeeeeah!!!
     
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    Much more popular around the world.

    Reason 1: the weightclass.
    Reason 2: the excitement.

    Most people from my country don't know Pac, and even less know Floyd... Everybody (even my granny) knew who Tyson was back in the day.
     
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    Larry Holmes? Pernell? Zu?
     
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    which country?

    So it would be the mixture of Weight Class and Excitement?

    It has to be both...more so than it just being an American HW?

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    Mike Tyson was household name (not just amongst the boxing fans). In my part of Canada casual fans know PBF and Pac but have a hard time naming the Heavyweight champ.

    My take is that the Bros are popular in eastern europe, Germany and a certain segment of the population that will soon be on this thread dumping on every fighter you mentioned.
     
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    Yes, without doubt.
     
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    Don't know how many of you are old enough to have seen him in his prime, but during the ring walks you weren't waiting to watch a boxing match, you were waiting to witness pure carnage.
     
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    if the bros fought like tyson they would eclipse both pac and pbf combined . . . it has zero to do with nationality and for those who say otherwise, their race would be definitely be a selling feature in North America.
     
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    [yt]Hef9b2aE34M[/yt]

    This is what we have now. :-(
     
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    He would be more popular without doubt.
     
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    The Netherlands... Not much boxingfans here.
    The Heavyweight division has always been the division of kings, and to have a really exciting HW champ completes the picture.
     
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    , good to know.

    One of the things I liked about Ali is that he traveled outside of the country.

    Tyson was actually set to go on a World Tour under Cayton but King took over and that was the end of that.

    Eh. It's better for the sport for the Champion to travel abroad.
     
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