Buster Douglas on Mike & Mike ESPN this morning

it is a strong opinion but not a irrational opinion , give me three names that would beat a prime 1988 tyson h2h?

 

joe louis
muhammed ali
lennox lewis

 

Only 3?

Ali
Holmes
Louis
Foreman
Frazier
Dempsey
Charles
Patterson
Holyfield
Bowe
Lewis

That's just off the top of my head.

 

Bowe beaten Tyson? I highly doubt that. He had little defense and would have slugged it out with Tyson and gotten KO'd.

 

Tyson has no mental toughness and would have crumbled like he always did in the face of adversity. The Bowe that fought against Holyfield beats Tyson.

Tyson is the heavyweight version of Zab Judah when it comes to mental toughness.

 

No way Bowe would have beaten Mike. Frazier would have been a WAR
also add Shavers and Lyle to the WAR list as Great challenges to the 1988 Iron Mike.

 

I'm basing that off of his fights with Holyfield. I think that Bowe beats Tyson personally.

Can't say it is a terrible pick to say Bowe would lose either.

 

:good:yep:bbb

 

Tyson lacked focus and direction. Ronney and Cus supplied it.:deal

 

I think Tyson 88' would have killed any frazier.

66' Ali would have whipped him.

 

I don't believe that he trained everyday for the fight, it was seems to have been more of a last minute thing with all that wild partying he did. Around that time there were numerous reports of Tyson leaving teams of trainers waiting for him and Mike not showing.

Plus, he did gain weight while in Japan 'preparing', you see back with his old team (1985-1988 ) before the 5 weeks of intensive training his normal walk-around weight was 230lbs. However here the partying had made Tyson gain weight: Kevin Rooney - "Two weeks before the Douglas fight, I heard Mike weighed 250 and had to take off 30 pounds. So, he dehydrated and starved himself." Obvious most of the muscle was still underneath once he'd dried out, but it sure reduced his stamina.

 

atschatsch

seriously log off.

 

Ali
Louis
Lewis

 

funny this 88 tyson we hear about, did this beast only exist in that year?

 

Considering that around that time that guys like Bone Crusher Smith and Tony Tucker were able to go to the scorecards, and a ring rusty and old Larry Holmes had been out of the ring almost 2 years did pretty well till he got clocked: Ali, Foreman, and Lennox Lewis, and perhaps a prime Holmes for starters.