No it's not. It's actually an exciting match up.
I think that once a fighter has made the progression from fighting bums, to national level, to world ranked contenders and then made the step up...
Your only saying that because he was the single dominant heavyweight of that time. Guess what? In every era but the 70s, heavyweight boxing has...
I'll be following his career closely now. He came to my attention fighting Burns (I'm from the uk), and he was very clever in the gamboa bout. I'm...
Sport is entertainment. In a sport like boxing where you can't really judge fighters on number of titles (like golf, tennis, swimming etc), surely...
The problem in this thread is people judging Tyson since Buster Douglas. People judging how good he was from 2002 and 2004 is just ridiculous....
If you know boxing, you have to admire his skill, but he's just not a very exciting fighter. Flash, yes. Talented, very. Exciting, not at all....
Haye would be well too mobile for Chagaev. He is 2nd rate. If the American guy had even the slightest work ethic tonight, he would've boxed...
I know right. Some of the forum members here are blind.
The big fights I remember when I was a kid were Benn-Mclellan, Tyson-Bruno, then a bit later, being a Brit, it was Lewis-Tyson, Lewis-Rahman, then...
I know. It's a shame that people can't just appreciate what an amazing amount of natural talent he had. He was a freak of nature. It says it...
So much ridiculousness in this thread! Mike Tyson was a phenomenon. He was the Maradona of boxing. A flawed yet supremely genetically endowed kid...