Tyson already on the slide in Bruno I?

He didn't throw combinations?? You're talking rubbish I'm afraid...

Just a few highlights to remind you...

https://youtu.be/3Xxk2t6Vmpw

 

Tyson on the slide? Not really? Tyson's media image on the slide? For sure!

 

Nah, if there were many things Tyson lacked, a warrior chin was not one of them. If he took take almost 9 rounds of non-stop brutal punishment from Lenni (a all time great murderous puncher himself) when he was a complete ghost of the fighter he used to be, 2-3 big shots from Bruno were not going to get the job done.

 

His combinations were on the slide. 10-12 punch combinations had already declined to 3-4 punch combinations max by the Bruno fight. By the Williams and Douglas fight, everything was based on that one big shot.

 

That's a perfect summing up.

 

Show me other fights where he threw much more combinations, guess I'll be in for a long wait....

 

I don't think he lost any fundamental skills over the six months or so since the Spinks fight. He probably just didn't have much respect for Bruno and got a bit lazy. He actually looked much better in the rematch, but there's little reason to believe he had improved in general during that time. Rather the opposite. He just was more focussed in the second fight.

When you breeze through everyone like Tyson had done it's probably easy to think you just have to show up to get the job done.

 

I agree he had looked better in most fights up to that point, but when did Tyson ever regularly throw 12 punch combinations throughout a fight? That seems to be high-light reel Tyson you talk about, not a Tyson that actually existed.

Tyson looks pedestrian in every round except the first and last against Thomas for example. And it's not like he was a whirlwind all the way against Tucker either. You'd think Tyson was a enlarged version of prime Pac the way he gets talked about. He never was.

 

Please show these mythical 10-12 punch combinations he threw on a regular basis....

 

You took the words right out of my fingers....

 

Exactly, they make out as though Tyson didn't throw as many combinations just because he parted with Rooney whereas the more likely scenario is he thought he could knock everybody out with one big bomb if it landed. Tyson could be lazy so throwing single shots is easier on you than throwing combos...

 

Is talking about Tyson a fetish of yours?
Its ALL you talk about.