Why are Tyson & Liston considered bullies

An ear bite is far less dangerous than a head butt, let alone multiple head butts. Any neurologist would agree. An ear bite is more of a cosmetic injury. Head butts can give you concussions or worse.

Plus, Tysons ear biting was in response to dirty tactics used against him and the ref's unwillingness to enforce the rules. I think he just lost his temper with being head butted constantly.

And Botha was fighting dirty too. It wasn't all one way.

The problem is is thst Tyson is looked on as the bad guy so anything wrong he did got magnified, while guys like Ali or Holyfield, had a good guy persona so even if they did something similar or worse, it gets looked over and downplayed.

Like Ali's betrayal of Fraizer. Its little known that Fraizer loaned Ali one million dollars during his exile. If you adjust for inflation since the late 60s, thats multiple millions today. Only for Ali to turn around and publicly humiliate Fraizer by talking about him the way he did. If Tyson did that to someone who had been kind to him during a particular down time, it would be talked about to no end.

Tyson ear bites once, Holyfield head butts multiple times and Tyson is the bad guy. Just like one can say Tyson ear bited to get out of the fight, one can also say Holyfield head butted because he knew he couldn't beat Tyson fair and square. Otherwise, why'd he head butt?

But it always comes back to what Tyson did so that he's wrong no matter what.

 

Mcall was Tysons sparring partner.

Liston would beat Bonavena like he stole something.

 

I think Tyson is judged a bit harshly as far as heart is concerned. Because if he just quit in the middle of a fight he'd have still gotten paid. But he kept fighting until he physically couldnt stand upright. Heart and chin are 2 separate things. A fighter could have a glass chin but all the heart in the world.Not saying Tysons chin was glass.

What I am saying is being knocked out doesnt mean you quit or dont have heart. Holmes is well known for his fighting heart, but was stopped in 4 by Tyson. No doubt if Holmes was physically able, he'd have gotten up and fought some more.

It was just that he got hit hard enough on the chin where his body couldn't respond. When Tyson went down against Douglas, I say it showed heart to get pummelled for 10 rounds and even still try to get up and fight back even in a daze.