Just seen the Tyson film....

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  1. abzmanc

    abzmanc Well-Known Member Full Member

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    The holyfield fights where covered and Tyson discussed those 'headbutts'. Around the time the fights took place... I was a bit younger and wasn't as seriously into Boxing back then... what did the guys here make of these headbutts??
     
  2. mrbassie

    mrbassie Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I didn't post here at the time, not sure if the site even existed but if what you're asking is 'did these headbutts really happen?' then yes, they certainly did, although I thought that the one really, really bad one in the first fight wasn't deliberate. In the second fight he was being pretty blatant. Holyfield is notorious for using his nut. Lennox Lewis once said "I've only got two scars from boxing and they're both from Holyfield's head"
     
  3. Kush

    Kush Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    They were preposterous
     
  4. Jennifer Love Hewitt

    Jennifer Love Hewitt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    It's no secret that Holyfield likes to headbutt people.
    He did some good damage to Mike with them. Whether or not that was a deciding factor in the wins, I'm sure everyone has varying degrees of opinion.
     
  5. JIM KELLY

    JIM KELLY Bullshyt Mr Han Man! Full Member

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    hasim rahman!!!!!

    peace
     
  6. abzmanc

    abzmanc Well-Known Member Full Member

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    cheers... confirming my initial suspicions

    Tyson - "Holyfield is taller than me, what was his head doing under mine?"

    Lol
     
  7. tampa

    tampa Active Member Full Member

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    ^^that was funny
     
  8. UFgators

    UFgators Active Member Full Member

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    Need John Horne's take.......
     
  9. TheGreat

    TheGreat Boxing Junkie banned

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    Holyfield should've been DQ'd in BOTH fights, first of all he excessivly clinched ie Ruiz style, than he used his head,.
     
  10. mrbassie

    mrbassie Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I don't know about that, but he should have been penalised. That's the problem with boxing, popular fighters get away with anything and they know it. If a ref just says "watch your head" fifty times and doesn't take a point it's not going to stop the fifty first head butt is it?
     
  11. faisal

    faisal Hoolios daddy Full Member

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    they were accidental holifield burries his head into the chest of his opponent so he can counter puncher effectively
     
  12. bayliss29

    bayliss29 New Member Full Member

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    it is a mans game at the end of the day im not advocating cheating but if you are a born winner like holyfield you'd try to bend the rules sometimes personelly i think him juicing up was worse but then i believe tyson did that too
     
  13. TheGreat

    TheGreat Boxing Junkie banned

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    I've never seen someone fight as blatently dirty as that, and not even get a warning, his holding alone was grounds for a DQ, BTW I'm not a Tyson fanatic, I just call it like it is. Holding is fine but when its done in excess its a problem, for example Ruiz who is not popular but during his fight with Golota the ref allowed him to clinch 192 times, Ruiz should've been DQ'd that night.
     
  14. paulfv

    paulfv Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Let me just say first that I'm a big fan of both fighters.

    Anyone that saw the first fight knows that Tyson was not afraid to take his beating like a man if it came to that.

    The reason Tyson lost it was because he got headbutted like crazy by EH and one of the headbutts opened up a sickening cut over his right eye and he must have known that he was f*cked.

    Mike was fighting better in the rematch and I thought he had a good shot at winning, and he felt like everything just got taken from him because of EH blatantly using his head. So, MT just lost it in the ring. It wasn't that he was scared of losing or being KO'd -- he already went through that with EH before -- it was that he felt he had been cheated and that neither the ref or anyone else gave a sh*t so he just took matters into his own mouth.

    Ask Bobby Czyz about Holyfield's headbutts.
     
  15. Delroc

    Delroc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    oh yea sure like 10 "accidental" headbutts in the same fight.