Mike Tyson - the most overrated boxer ever

Brilliant post.
There's a reason that nearly 30years past his best, at every UFC card he attends all the fighters want to meet Mike Tyson, and no one gives 2 ****s about Lennox Lewis or Holyfield.
It's because at his best, he was absolutely devestating, and wrecked an entire division as a kid.
Ring magazine ran a headline after he wiped out Spinks, "unbeatable", and then, he was.
For a very short spell he's the best fighter who ever lived IMO, he had everything.
Don't give me the stamina bull**** either, do some physiology research. To be as fast and powerful as Tyson, you need a huge percentage of fast twitch muscle fibre, it fatigues quickest, so he may have become less explosive after 5 rounds, but that's nothing to do with stamina, it's physiology. Tyson back then coulda fought 15 rounds easy.
His peak was too short and lost to fighters nowhere near good enough for him to be considered the greatest, but the best? Absolutely.
If he'd have retired after wiping out Spinks he'd have been considered the best ever. He'd have opened a betting fav over any fighter in history. FACT!

 

Tyson actually did want to retire after the Spinks fight, he said he wantto save his money and not end up broke like previous fighters. He said he wanted to spend more time with his new wife.

 

I remember him talking about retirement after the Tubbs fight in Tokyo. Tubbs had much faster hands than Holyfield, for what it's worth.

 

He even avenged his Olympic Trial amateur losses to Tillman with a one-round KO as a pro.

 

His style was the blueprint for how a short boxer should fight.his technique was superb, fast on his feet, excellent lateral movement, rib breaking body punches, great head movement.
His double short right uppercut was executed the way Duran used to do and lightning fast.
Even in the harry Greb loving classic forum some people admit how great Tyson was.

 

I do get tired of hearing the "Prime Mike Tyson would have done this or done that" but the fact does remain at the peak of his powers he was an absolute machine.

He had everything.. speed, explosive power, balance, head movement, coming in at angles etc.

It's ashame his head got mullered by the likes of Robin Givens & Don King. Tyson might have been a man, the most feared man on the planet at the time, but he was still a kid in his head. If he'd had more mental stability and wasn't surrounded by leeches, who knows what else he could have achieved.

Also, for anyone to say he had a "glass jaw", you need to lay off eating those crayons.

 

Can't argue with a word of that.

 

Technically there has been no better heavyweight.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_kbC36JESs

 

No. Also, shut up.

 

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Tyson was US Junior Olympic Champ which basically means he was Junior US Games Champ.

If America had a games but only for Juniors.


I don't think he ever won the international junior olympics unless I'm mistaken.


Plus he fought at Cruiserweight or "Heavyweight".


And beat the famous Tyrell Biggs.. who was really something like an Olympic bronze or silver medalist.. he wasn't the true number one.. never beat Stevenson.

 

The Cubans and Russians boycotted the 1984 Olympics.

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Sinan Samil Sam won the World Championships but he wasn't amateur number one.

 

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_European_Amateur_Boxing_Championships