mike tyson prime for prime would beat any heavyweight that ever lived

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  1. Rage of Wodan

    Rage of Wodan Active Member Full Member

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    Trailer park trash
     
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    Hamburger , you still didn't answer my question ?
     
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    Rage , Hamburger is pure TROLL , through and through . She has even had polls even calling for his banishment . Tyson is #1 on his ATG list and somehow it has affected her cognitive abilities.
     
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    Tyson couldn't walk in like he does, against prime Foreman.

    He'd get slaughtered.
    Don't get me started on his headmovement, it was genuinely good, but Foreman's right uppercut was his most deadly punch, and Tyson was open to it.
     
  6. Madmanc

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    tyson would land 5 punches to foremans 1.people make foreman out to be far better than he was,it is ****ing laughable that people think that the foreman that came back would have beaten tyson,absolutely laughable
     
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    I'll tell you why because it was the formula Lewis used to beat Tyson that matters just as much as the win. That formula of using upper cuts, leaning and pushing on his and hitting him with over hand rights, would also be a problem for Tyson, especially those upper cuts. Tyson told his corner he was hurt in between the 1st and 2nd round.
     
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    Certainly Tyson should be able to beat an old Foreman, but I'm less sure about him beating a prime Foreman. If Foreman caught him once or twice with those upper cuts, Tyson would be wondering what Plan B was, and since he never had a Plan B, it would be a real challenge for him to overcome. He could beat every heavyweight who ever lived, as could Ali, Lewis, Holmes and perhaps Foreman. Hard to say who would win a box off between these guys but I doubt anyone gets undefeated if they were to fight each other, it would be a matter of who losses the least amount of fights.
     
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    Tyson-Foreman in their primes would've been a shootout.

    They would meet in the middle of the ring and start throwing bombs, and if you do that against Foreman there is NO GUARANTEE.
     
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    Iron Mike vs Ron Lyle (Prime 4 Prime) would have been fun to watch .
     
  11. MrPR

    MrPR Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I for one never understand why people so quickly dismiss Tysons chances against Prime Foreman .

    Tyson is just as equally big of a threat as Foreman is to him .

    Lyle dropped foreman 2x early and almost knocked him out . Tyson has a good chance of stopping George .

    OLD Foreman that came back would have been TKOed by Mike .
     
  12. Madmanc

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    look at the link to tysons defense video above,then picture foremans wild wide punches coming at tyson,and you will catch my drift,then take a look at how effective tyson was with vicious counter punches,tyson would make easy work of any wild punching fighter such as foreman at any stage of his career
     
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    I think Tyson would beat Foreman, but if Foreman can hit him, he can hurt him. So the longer the fight goes the more I'd favour Foreman, because it would likely mean that the fight is no longer at mid range, which was Tyson's home.
     
  14. Madmanc

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    tyson would be effective at close range also,no fighter with as wild a punching style as foreman would beat tyson in his day,he was far to quick head feet and hands especially,its a no brainer for me
     
  15. OneLennoxLewis

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    Mike Tyson - The Fallen Champ (The Untold Story) shows Tyson as a young kid when he still had Teddy Atlas with him, when Cus was schooling him and you see that kid, with all those tools at his disposal and not the one he became, and you wonder if there was anyone he couldn't beat. He had a lot of talent. But so did a couple of other fighters. the would-could post at the start of the thread ends the discussion