Why is Tysons competition poo pooed

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  1. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    Which isn't nearly as funny as Holyfield being honored despite the extensive amount of steroids sweating out of every pore!!!
     
  2. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Says the guy who believes a man who admits using a fake dick to cheat drug tests that he never … ever … ever took anything other than a couple of puffs on a joint, lol. Mike Tyson ain’t Mother Teresa (although he’d have probably mugged her when he was 12).

    He’s an admitted drug cheat. Get off your high horse.
     
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  3. Man_Machine

    Man_Machine Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I think the only noteworthy signature from that fight was the one on Spinks' paycheck.
     
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  4. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    What? I never said any of that. You are a sad individual. Giving Mike Tyson all that power over you. I mean, how does that even feel? :ohno
     
  5. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Seems like he has the power over you.

    So you do believe Mike Tyson is a drug cheat after he admitted to using a fake dick to pass PED tests?

    Glad we cleared that up. My apologies.
     
  6. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    Need the last word, loser?
     
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    Marvelous_Iron Active Member Full Member

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    so Tyson, Frazier, Louis, if we take one of their better opponents we end up with something like Ribalta vs Bonavena vs Walcott, which would all be really good competitive fights
     
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    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Ribalta isn't one of Tyson's better opponents though.
     
  9. Saintpat

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    You really can’t stand it, can you?
     
  10. White Bomber

    White Bomber Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You're clueless. He used cocaine, not PED's, that's why he used the fake dick.
    Tyson never used PED's, he didn't believe in them.
     
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    White Bomber Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He's just a clueless Tyson hater.
     
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  12. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    So you believe a guy who uses a fake dick to pass drug tests.

    If Mike offers to sell you a bridge in Brooklyn, I suggest you jump on the chance. Guys who use fake dicks and their own baby’s urine to cheat drug tests would never lie to you.
     
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    Tyson's opponents were not really poo pooed, he fought the opponents that were in his era, not futuristic, hypothetical, or from the past but in his present era. Tyson's management brought him up slowly, which you are supposed to do with a relatively young fighter, you don't throw him into the fire right away ala Pete Rademacher. Tyson realistically could not fight Sonny Liston, he had been deceased since 1971. Tyson could not fight Lennox Lewis or the Klitchko's because Lewis was still an amateur, the Klitchko's were developing as fighters. Cus D Amato may have over sheltered his fighters, an example being Floyd Patterson, but with the help of Kevin Rooney they developed a truly hard hitting heavyweight, who had he continued with the same bunch that brought him to the big dance quite possibly could have ruled into the 1990's.
     
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    Floyd fought Durelle in his 10th pro fight and Maxim in his 14th. If that is being protected, I'd hate being unprotected.
     
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    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    I've gradually come around to respecting Floyd's reign a bit more. The threads where this came up still suggest he was protected as a heavyweight champion, but not nearly as much as the memes have it.
     
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