If Mike Tyson was coming into his prime at the start of the 1970s

A prime Tyson easily beats Larry Holmes. I think this is why you made the thread.

Cus (Tysons trainer) always knew that Mike would beat Holmes, so Tyson always had that in his head. Even when Larry was in his prime, Cus would tell Mike he can beat Holmes and this was when Mike was like 16-17. I think Mike Beats most of those guys in that era, would be interesting to see him fight Shavers though!

 

Its very possible that Tyson could have cleaned up, I think he beats the Norton & Quarry`s.

Frazier took a few rds to get warmed up, Mike might have been able to get him out of there quickly.

Ali couldnt move as much as in the 60s, this would be a war, either man could win here.

Foreman stylewise MIGHT have been an achilles heal for Mike - Im going mainly on the Frazier fight - or Mike might have punished George inside, too tough to call in this one too.

 

Thats how I see it too except he would beat Norton, Frazier, Quarry , Cooney or Shavers with relative ease.

 

He'd have a chance at beating everybody except Foreman, who would absolutely DESTROY him.

 

Tyson in the 70´s. I think he would beat Quarry easy, Bonavena easy, he would not beat Ali. i don´t think he would beat Frazier, but i´m unsure here, this is a hard one to tell.
Norton and Shavers can´t beat iron Mike, that´s for sure.I think he would beat george foreman, cause he was very fast and had killerpower in his hands. Foreman is a little to slow to get away from those punches.
All the best
The predator

 

Tyson cleans up here. His hand speed, power and head movement neverseen before in one package.

 

Why would foreman beat Tyson?

 

tyson has tended to be underrated as time has gone on,because of his downslide etc.but there's no doubt in his prime he's a big,big,problem for anyone.i think he beats all of the contenders your quarry's,bonavena's etc. although he gives ali problems with his handspeed he didn't have the inside game of frazier and i think ali picks him off with the jab and simply ties mike up on the inside,something he found very difficult to do with an inside great like frazier.i'd expect ali to gain a hard fought ud.the frazier fight would be fascinating,contrary to what some think tyson wasn't a particularily good inside fighter and if it was fought in there i'd go for frazier.however if tyson could get enough of those devastating mid range combinations off on joe when he's on the way in,then he could conceivably stop frazier,remember another bull like guy in bonavena had joe down twice in their fight,and he wasn't as devastating as tyson.i'd just go for tyson here.a foreman fight at first glance looks like a stylistic nightmare for tyson a big power punching immovable object with a granite chin.the thing tyson has here however is handspeed,if tyson could manage to slip that jab and once again get those devastating combo's off, then it could be very interesting,foreman was repeatedly caught by 3 and 4 punch combo's by ali in the thrilla,tyson's if he could manage this would obviously be landed with considerably more power.the thing tyson would find difficult here though would be foreman's mentallity,unlike the big guys tyson faced most who were intimidated and bent on survival,foreman would be pushing mike back and would be the intimidator,tyson going back isn't a good fighter.i think i'd take big george to achieve this and stop mike after 8 rounds.

 

The big question is how would he go against an aging Ali, Ali may not have the power to keep him off and Tyson may have the speed to really get to Ali's chin, Ali' chin was great but he was never hit with the sort of quick power barrage Tyson could throw.

 

well i'm a huge ali fan,and i back him against them all,however i agree he never fought anyone with the handspeed combined with the power that tyson could throw.the nearest for hand speed was patterson and actually in their 2nd fight floyd fought well and did quite often catch ali with good combinations.tyson for power and strength is a step up from patterson.there's no doubt it would have been a tough one for ali,i just think his all round ring smarts would have nullified tyson and saw him through.he always found a way.

 

Tyson would decapitate Shavers, in the first round.

 

He'd beat Frazier, Foreman, Norton and most others. Loses to Ali.

 

His toughest fights and possible losses would come from Foreman and Ali.....I think Frazier would have been a war but only 4 to 5 rounds,Joe coming straight to Tyson would have been his down fall.

 

When it comes to Foreman, I like old George's chances better against Tyson in a way than I do young George's. While young Foreman was faster and probably a bit more powerful old Foreman had better heart and defence, and was craftier.

Young Foreman would go all out early and it would be a war, but I think the older version would be smarter. He would concentrate more on using his jab (but not too much, lest he'd be countered), bully Tyson around, force him backwards, and let him waste his best punches on Foreman's cross-armed defence.

In that way he could tire and frustrate Tyson without wasting too much energy himself, and start to throw the real big artillery when Tyson starts to slow down a bit, as he used to do after a couple of rounds. And when Foreman's uppercut starts to connect...