1988 Mike Tyson vs Anthony Joshua

Joshua is more mobile than Bruno and bigger but reacts similarly when clipped. Defo not an early ko as Joshua can tie him up and keep it long but sooner or later he'll get tagged and swarmed by combinations

 

Heavyweight boxing is unpredictable but I think Tyson would predictably knock him out.

 

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1988 Mike Tyson gives any heavyweight in history a hell of a fight.

AJ doesn't last the first half of the fight. He can barely ring circle effectively against a fat plodder.

 

Only AJ can go down 4 times from 0 clean shots and refuse to fight on but still have deluded fanboys claiming he's some kind of warrior

 

He fought on with a concussion and a messed up equilibrium. Pack it in pal.

 

Pack what in?
You made a comment about AJ getting up off the canvas 4 times in a thread about AJ v 88 Tyson as if getting clipped by Ruiz then getting bundled over numerous times is somehow relevant to this conversation.
When, not if, Tyson 88 connects with AJ it's over full stop.

 

If you looked at the comment I was replying to then you wouldn’t be asking that question.

 

Tyson inside 3 rounds.

AJ wouldn't need to quit this time, he would be a crumpled heap.

 

I'm going to give a vote for Joshua.

1988 Tyson got caught with an awful lot of upper cuts from an out of shape Holmes as he charged at him in the early rounds. And as questionable as Joshua's gas tank is, I don't see him trying to prove a point by dancing on his toes hands down and gassing himself by the 4th round.

Add to that, you got to consider how much bigger and longer Joshua is than Holmes let alone Tyson. Which Heavy Weight of Joshua's size did Tyson have his way with?

Personally, I don't think it's very useful to turn this thread into hypothetical best Tyson (1988) versus hypothetical worst Joshua (Ruiz 1)

 

Prime Tyson destroys any of the Current Heavyweights except maybe Fury...

 

AJ would leave that ring as a corpse.

 

Joshua wouldn’t lay a glove on him.

 

Not anyone who has seen 1988 Mike Tyson. He was just on a completely different level then.

 

It would be like a reboot of Tyson vs Bruno 1

 

How do you reckon he gets on againt this version of Tyson?