1981 Ali Vs 2005 Tyson

This fight is wrong on every level.

 

Irrelevant thread mate.

 

I'm no Ali fan but his last two losses were against Holmes (the best boxer of his era) and Berbick (an eventual world champion), Tyson lost to complete bums in Danny Williams and Kevin McBride.

 

Mike Tyson because he didn't have early onset Parkinsons

 

ditto

 

Ali was too tough for his own good but I would have to favour Tyson via TKO.

 

That's a fight I wouldn't watch that's for sure. two fighters at their worst, one with Parkinson's. analyzing this fight is a exercise in how to become depressed.

 

Ali. He could go the distance with Berbick and he showed bigger heart than Tyson who quit without a pressing reason.

 

I think Ali is able to squeeze out a decision. I still think 1981 Ali would beat McBride.

 

I don't think it was really anything to do with heart. Unlike Ali, Tyson at the end just had no punch resistance at all left. When the likes of Danny Williams and Kevin McBride are able to overpower you and shaking you down to your little black ankle boots with every shot they land, you know it's time to quit.

 

Who would win? The smartass in me says, the damn promoter ...

On a practical note - it's Ali's heart vs Tyson's innate puncher. I think that heart, plus his faded-yet-still palpable aura, manages to make Tyson quit after a few rounds; that, and he knew how to clinch and muffle a smaller, more compact opponent and could still settle down and throw shots with at least enough authority to get the job done ... but the damage Ali would take along the way would be appalling.

 

McBride didn't overpower Tyson at all. The Danny Williams fight wasn't in the question. Your opinion proves a typical Tyson hatred only..
1 fighter has only one final fight .Just saying.

 

Well, it was quite unnecessary for you to say it as is your apparent and unwarranted hostility in your post. If anything, I was the one, who was far from showing any hatred towards Tyson, was actually attempting to defend Tyson in response to your post in which you seemingly accused him of having no heart in his final fight by quitting without reason. My opinion was that he seemed to have no punch resistance left and included his previous fight against Williams, in which he was also unexpectedly stopped, as further evidence of what I thought.

Hope that's cleared up your confusion?

 

Ugh. I don't even want to think about it.