If Tyson were bigger...

Assuming he coulda maintained his same style as a bigger man, yea he'd be more dominant. He'd still need to get his personal **** together tho. That derailed him more than anything else.

 

Everyone ALWAYS tied Tyson up yet he always got off his punches. Tyson knew how to beat that holding style since he faced it in nearly every fight.

Tyson was as prepared as his corner was, and not even a Tyson hater can deny how incompetent and inept his corner was.

It was a fluke and everyone knew it was ... which is why Mike wanted to get a rematch done ASAP and Douglas was hesitant ... you can wound a lion if you catch him off guard.

 

Funny that when Tyson loses to the first elite and motivated fighter he faces he was "post prime", and it was a fluke loss. Yet you spend a large portion of your day on ESB posting hate about the Klitschos constantly deriding them for losses that also had circumstances to go with them. I don't expect you to see the irony because you simply aren't capable.

 

Now Douglas is elite now? :rofl

 

atsch

 

6'3" Pacquiao beats 6'3" Tyson.

 

To me, what made Tyson so special was his defensive prowess and how he would use it in a flash to put incredible pressure on his foes. The blazing hand speed, educated combinations and two-handed knockout power merely brought down the curtain, and more often than not, quite suddenly.

Tyson would slip under and over on his foes all the while moving forward to them. The pressure he put them under did the trick.

I am referring to the variant of Tyson up until summer 1988.

Despite their incredible size and skill, I'd like to remind those that feel size is the determining factor that Wlad and Vitali, as terrific and dominant as they have been, have never faced such a whirlwind package of destruction.

 

Tyson was banging Japanese chicks in pairs when he should have been training. If we go by Klitard logic he was a good 30 fights away from his prime anyway. . .

 

i think as others have said his stature made his style

at 6'2 to 6'4 his style would not be the same

 

Douglas caught the flu the day before the fight.

By Klittard logic he should have been on deathbed.