Can anyone take 88-89 Mike Tyson?

Lennox. Easy

 

No takes the best version of Tyson, no heavyweight would handle him, he should and could of gone on to be the greatest, but money, bad advise and self demons stopped that.

 

of course, he showed he had problems keeping his head straight - someone coming along at the right time, with a pretty decent skillset, excelling at stick and move, plus a hustler to boot can take him.

 

prime Ali outboxes Tyson

Lennox and Vitali would knock the midget out

 

This. Foreman might get knocked out in a toe-to-toe war. Ali won't. Ali would easily outbox Tyson.

Bowe, Lewis, Vitali, Wlad .. basically all elite SHWs would destroy Tyson with ease as well of course.

 

Nope.

That version of Mike, and the RJJ of the 90's stand alone in H2H battles.

Huge Power in BOTH hands
Lazer-like accuracy
Ferociousness that's never been matched
Could take huge bombs
Had more or less every punch in the book
Head movement that you will NEVER see again in that division

Mike was a freak of nature.

 

Peak Vitali.

 

He is easily the most overrated HW of modern times. Easily.

 

Fixed for ya. :good

 

Yeah I don't think Ali beats that version of Tyson either.

 

Ali would sht talk him into tears.

 

No, Tyson was/is the most overrated heavyweight in the last 50 years.

Way too much credit for beating the likes of Berbick, and a blown up light heavy in Spinks.

Any tall skilled heavy would give him fits, and i'd even pick the old man version of Foreman to beat him in a gunfight.

 

Stonehands is a troll.

This is a windup thread.

 

Tyson looked unbeatable at that time because he was fighting mediocre competition. He's probably only the tenth best heavyweight boxer all time even at his best. Ali, Louis, Holmes, Lewis, Foreman, Bowe, Holyfield, Vitali Klitschko, and the Emmanuel Stewart version of Wladimir Klitschko would all beat him.

 

Funny because Lewis and Holyfields legacies both evolve around Tyson.

Holmes: I came back to fight Tyson to see if hes really great

Holyfield: Me and Tyson were the best two fighters and i had to beat him.

Lewis: I had to beat Tyson to cement my legacy.

You missed the part out where he cleared out his division and ruled it with an iron fist in the most devastating fashion in heavyweight history and made 9 title defenses.

You ever heard of Tony Tucker? Tyson beat him very handily.
In fact 99.99% of Tysons opposition was taller than him and he beat most of them.

Foreman is at fault for not fighting Tyson, thats why when King offered him the contract he replied 'I was more scared of King and the dotted line than Tyson'.