Anyone who says Tyson couldn't fight past 6 rounds and refuses to see there was prime

Definitely agree. Ribalta fight is another great example.

 

Used the wrong fight to argue your point; Tucker was a poor man's Lennox Lewis, and he took Tyson the distance in a very competitive, if not close, fight. I agree that Tyson's prime was in the 80's and he wasn't the same fighter when he did face Lewis, but if Prime Lewis (2002ish) faced prime 80's Tyson, Lewis still wins, in a more competitive fight that maybe goes the distance.

 

Personally I disagree Prime Tyson's style was made to hunt down guys like Lewis. Guys who took the fight to Tyson and could take a great punch are what give Tyson problems.

 

Yup don't forget about the razor rundock fights, the man was trying to take tysons head off

 

When people say that they are pure tyson haters.

The tyson 1985-1988 was a complete different fighter.

He was a real fighter then

He was nott the same after he left rooney he turned into a completely different fighter

 

I definitely agree with much of what you say, just have to agree to disagree re prime Lewis v prime Tyson:good

 

Nobody is in their prime at ****ing 20. Tyson wasn't in his prime in the 80s, he was just fighting nobodies. Any version of Lewis beats the midget.

 

I agree...people choose to judge Tyson on his 'finished years' and act as if he was always that bad but somehow winged it through the 80s.

Tyson was a wrecking machine but you can't knock everyone out all of the time. This is what made him so great, even against adversity when faced with big tough guys who would not go down and were fighting back hard, he would comprehensively beat them over 12 rounds, barely losing a round.

If Mike was always a quitter as some people like to make out he would have quit many many times before.

 

It's the mental midget stuff I find unfair. I know it's meant in a boxing sense but mental midgets don't go from gutter rat to heavyweight champion without a fair degree of mental and emotional fortitude.
Sure he got a break with Cus but ultimately it was still down to Tyson.
Bobby Stewart routinely kicked his ass in sparring but Tyson came back to learn.

It's not as if Mike made it on pure talent alone...an enormous amount of self-sacrifice and discipline was needed from him to get where he wanted to be.

True mental midgets and true bullies woukd have given up after being dropped in sparring or getting a few bloody noses. They would have found excuses not to go to the gym.
To his credit, Tyson was extremely dedicated in his early years. Holyfield said that Tyson used to outwork even him. That's pretty high praise.

 

Prime Tyson ( 1986-1989 ) is best ever

 

It has been well known and said countless times already that the only people that underrate Tyson's stamina never experienced him in his prime. Those are the fans that started watching Tyson post prison.