Most fun heavyweight ever???

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  1. Johnny_B

    Johnny_B Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    If by fun you mean exciting to watch, then it's Tyson by a country mile.
    Nobody comes close.
     
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  2. DTM

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    Butterbean
     
  3. RockyJim

    RockyJim Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You bet!!!
     
  4. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Mike Tyson is the biggest draw in history of the sport ( yes I know Mayweather has the records )
     
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  5. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Why do people consider Tyson the most exciting? I can understand if you're talking about watching him live, but what about going back and rewatching him? The best fights he were in were kinda average in the grand scheme of things. And he tended to lose them...

    I get loving his highlight reel and KOs, but Louis' are just as enjoyable.
     
  6. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    Muhammad Ali both for some of the great fights he was in as well as his personality and ring theatrics
     
  7. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    If you were around in the 80s and 90s there was an atmosphere of excitement every time Tyson fought......it was like watching Kimbo Slice beat a guy’s ass In a street fight
     
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  8. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Mike Tyson was the boxing version of Stone Cold Steve Austin ( if that makes sense )
     
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  9. Mike Cannon

    Mike Cannon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Showing your age buddy ( remember him well ) so am I :duh
     
  10. Richard M Murrieta

    Richard M Murrieta Now Deceased 2/4/25 Full Member

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    I loved to watch him fight on NBC's Boxing From The Forum on Friday evenings in the early 1970's.
     
  11. Richard M Murrieta

    Richard M Murrieta Now Deceased 2/4/25 Full Member

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    George Chuvalo, he did that skit as The Washerwoman against Muhammad Ali in 1966. Muhammad Ali also, his rhetoric related to his opponents, his clowning, and his ring inventions, the Ali Shuffle for example.
     
  12. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Not so fun on the day he car-jacked vehicle with a woman and her son in it and then started shooting at police.

    He’s serving 105 years in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana now without possibility of parole. Reduced from 160 on a technicality.
     
  13. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Joe Goddard... Old, drunk, heavy-handed and threw with reckless abandon.
     
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  14. Saintpat

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    Doesn’t it have to be, by definition ... Harry Funmaker?

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  15. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    he certainly put on a show for the all but 20 people In attendance. I can’t believe how some of these cans who Butterbean fought even had boxing licenses.