In his first reign as heavyweight champion,Tyson's resume can't be faulted. He fought anyone who was anyone. Same applies to Lennox Lewis.
You are correct! Fighting stiffs makes one appear far better than they really are. Spinks was NO threat, nothing. Berbick, the same. Bonecrusher? Spinks had fought a Holmes who was nowhere near the '80 Holmes. Cooney was hungover from alcohol and cocaine when Spinks fought him. Spinks was very overrated. What did Spinks do since? Holmes wasn't ready for the Tyson fight in '88 and nowhere near his '80 self. None of this is Tyson's fault, but put someone like a (top of their game)Tua or Lewis in there with him(Tyson) in '88 and then one could make a much better evaluation.
Douglas was more pissed at himself than hurt and was able to get up in time. He would have gotten up with a faster count. Tyson would have been killed by Douglas if he wasn't counted out. Tyson had no idea where he was at the end.
Not only that but Tyson fanboys are like *******s with their wierd man love. According to them the poor little ****** only lost to Buster because he was smoking a few joints, and drinking beer, and not training as intensely as he should have been at 23 years of age. Aaaaaaaaaaah poor little didums. All the while conveniently forgetting Busters own mother died 3 weeks before the fight, and then a matter of days before, the mother of his own son was rushed into hospital for serious surgery, leaving Douglas having to make sure the boy was taken care of properly. But wtf, eh? Why would it matter that one woman close to Douglas did die, and another one could well have done, in the build up to the fight. Far more important is the ****** Tyson smoking dope, and getting beer down his stupid neck.:roll::roll:
spend the next month of your life smokin drinking and sniffing, i'm sure you'll come out of it at your physical best. what happened to douglas was a horrible week, but that motivates people so often i'm not sure what your point is.
1. People spend vast proportions of their lives drinking, and smoking dope, without the adverse effects taking place until they are one hell of a lot older than 23, particularly when they haven't even indulged until they were 21, because their mentor ( Old Man Tomato ) watched them like a hawk. 2. Tyson was NOT on coke at that time ( which in any case gives a feeling of invincibility, NOT lethargy ) so that is pure bull****. 3. Plenty of fighters drank booze in the build up to big fights, and still came out victorious. 4. My point is quite simple. Tyson came up against a guy, who hit him back harder, faster, and more often than he hit the guy. Consequently he showed the true colours of a bully / ******, and got fvcked.
Nope. He one big reason to lose it. Yes it is a serious accusation. If you know the history of Don King and Tim Witherspoon you may have a better understanding of what happened. Witherspoon wanted out of his contract with King. Tim has hinted that he threw that bout in interviews if not out right admitted it. Just based on common sense if you watch that fight...does it look like Witherspoon was trying?
Thanks for enlightening me. Problem is James Smith coudn`t KO Witherspoon unless Tim let him. That was my point.
2. if he wasn't on coke thats my mistake, it could be one of those myths, but how do you know he wasn't?, its not pure bull****, coke makes you feel like **** after a couple of days, he wasn't sniffing between rounds, since you dont know what the **** your talking about i'm gonna let this discussion be.
Good. You ought to, rather than make idiotic claims about drugs and booze, which you obviously know sweet eff all about, in a rather pathetic attempt to defend your hero. The problem with all you excuse mongers is you all talk ****, about things you simply don't know. Tyson smashed Bruno 11 days after Givens divorced him and took a sizeable amount of his money ( breaking his heart into the bargain according to his fanboys ) then 5 months later destroyed Williams in a round. At the time it was known he was going " off the rails " but he and his fanboys were quite happy to suck his dick whilst that was occurring, but come out with all the bull**** when he got proper fvcked by a guy who didn't give a **** about his reputation, and just beat the crap out of him. Tyson fanboys are as wierd as *******s for sure.