Who made a bigger impact on the sport of boxing....Floyd Mayweather Jr or Mike Tyson?

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  1. bigdan

    bigdan Guest

    tyson its debatable if he is as famous as ali
     
  2. fytelod

    fytelod Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    ******ed poll and the lopsided result showed it.
     
  3. markq

    markq Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Big Floyd fan here. Tyson easily had more impact. If you talk about boxing, two names stood out in their generation. Ali. Tyson.
     
  4. Atlanta

    Atlanta Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Even though I think Floyd is the better fighter and higher ranking ATG, I am going to go with Tyson. Sorta like how Sosa and McGwire saved baseball, Tyson saved the Heavyweight division. Floyd didn't do that because the lower weight classes didn't need saving.
     
  5. crimson

    crimson Boxing Addict banned

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    Tyson has movieS (plural), video gameS (plural), bookS, TV showS, ....


    The GREATEST boxing video game in history (Mike Tyson's Punch-Out) stars....
    should I keep going?
     
  6. punk

    punk Well-Known Member Full Member

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    ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
     
  7. Mind Reader

    Mind Reader J-U-ICE Full Member

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  8. madkillaz692000

    madkillaz692000 Fuerte y Abundante Full Member

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  9. Taylex

    Taylex Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Mike Tyson transcended the sport and become a household name across the world where as Mayweather is only well known amongst general sports fans in the USA.
     
  10. Vitor Belfort

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  11. dontplamelikdat

    dontplamelikdat Member Full Member

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    Tyson so far. However Floyd isn't finished yet. This question may be easier to answer in 10 years.
     
  12. LSomefun

    LSomefun Active Member Full Member

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    Unfair Poll no one is as famous as Mike Tyson with the exception of M. Ali. Why dont u try a poll with Tyson and Pacquiao to see the result. Tyson captured the imagination of the public with his raw aggression and KO power which no other fighter has replicated.
     
  13. CarlesX7

    CarlesX7 Shit got real! Full Member

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    Pretty useless thread.
     
  14. CASH_718

    CASH_718 "You ****ed Healy?" Full Member

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    :patschFloyd could give a **** less about boxing.

    And Floyd likes to say he's bigger then boxing??? He's not. Mike Tyson WAS BIGGER THEN BOXING!!!
     
  15. Mind Reader

    Mind Reader J-U-ICE Full Member

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    I actually think Roy Jones would have been a bigger PPV draw had he not been in an era of great Heavyweights in his prime, Tyson, Holyfield, Bowe, Lewis etc.

    Jones Toney only did about 400k, you would think if they were both prime in today's market it would have done better.