After having done so well against Larry Holmes. What mistake did Williams do to get knocked out by Tyson so early or was he already a shot fighter at that point?
He dropped his right hand to his waist when he jabbed. Early in the fight Williams say that Tyson was looking to slip the jab and close distance. Williams started looking for a right uppercut after Tyson slipped the jab; Carl dropped his right hand to throw that punch. Williams had that habit throughout his career- dropping his right hand to his waist when exchanging punches.
Tyson was a different beast. It's like asking what did Joe Frazier do wrong vs Foreman and not Ali. Totally different scenarios.
He ran into a wall in a young,motivated Tyson. Nothing he could've done to beat him that night and no shame as Tyson was deadly then.
that is it, it is always that simple, different fighters, especially killers are always going to cause problems, and more often than not serious ones. No 'fight plan' is a remedy, on the job training most of the time and the skilful fit fighter knows what to do, adapts, watches and capitalize, but even then some fighters will just beat you.
It's pretty simple Larry Holmes didn't really have a left hook, which was Carl Williams's biggest weakness so Holmes couldn't exploit it. Williams would have a tendency to drop his right hand after jabbing and that's why he got caught by Weaver, Tyson. Who had very good left hooks and could exploit that glaring weakness. As I said Holmes's arsenal was jab, right hand, uppercut, he didn't have a left hook to speak of.
1. Against Tyson He was in there with a prime champion instead of a past prime one. 2. He had an incurable weakness for the left hook which Tyson specialized in. 3. He rose off the canvas but the referrer waved off the fight when he probably shouldn’t have.