If a human being eats no food, it will lose mass. The story was that Mr Tyson refused to eat anything but tinned food. It was also said that Mr Tyson ran up to 10 miles some days. Thus, the light weight.
when you see videos and pictures of him as a 12-15 year old, you realise how naturally big the guy really was. freak of nature.
Thought I read he was @ least 200lbs as a kid. He wasn't meant 2 cut a lot weight due 2 his body type.
Wrong, Mike's natural walking around weight was about 240 back than, having to get down to 190 would not have done him any favors, BTW back than Mike was heavier than a whole lot of heavies, because back than you didn't have lard asses at the top.
I don't know about the bench press, but it's well-known Mike was that big when he was only 14. I have amateur fights of him at 15-16 weighing 197 lbs. It's very likely that only a year or two earlier he was 190
Man, I gave an ESB classic Tyson Tale. Many couldn't post on ESB again because the spunk they shot flooded the room and either broke their computer or drowned them.
Yeah beacuse we all know how slow Mike was. Compared to him Liston looks like Ali in terms of speed! :rasta
And also energy and power. Anyway, Mike has gone vegan now. He says he lost around 110 pounds. He was around 335, now hes around 225. I was surprised at that. He looks skinny, of course, old age, no training, no meat, medication and grief from the death of loved one = loss of muscle. I thought he was 200 pounds. But he is 225. Oh, silly topic btw! :hi:
Only to those ignorant of the legend. Mike did look pretty skinny coming out of prison the first time. All of the other times he has looked fatish to extremely fat.