Does Dempsey have a chance against Tyson?

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  1. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Read carefully. I'm not asking if he wins, but does he have a chance, even if it's rather small? The poster Pugilist_Spec posted the following in another thread.
     
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    Longhhorn71 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Dempsey in some of those underground fights he had, probably faced a bigger, dangerous fighter with "anything goes" rules allowed. So he wouldn't be afraid of Tyson. Probably just a case of who gets the few big punches in first.
     
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    It could go either way!

    What hairstyle Tyson chooses is his problem!
     
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    no because his boxing skills are much inferior to Michael Tysons
     
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    tommygun711 The Future Full Member

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    nope
     
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  6. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Dempsey had more openings than a Sunday hooker when rent was due.
     
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    Mr.DagoWop Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Excellent ****ogy...bravo
     
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  8. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    I don't think I ever asked you this before, do you think Greb and Wills take Dempsey's belt away?
     
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  9. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Then again, he also thinks Ruddock hit harder than Foreman and Liston, and Tyson-Spinks was a better win than Frazier's over Ali. He's not exactly Mr. Credibility. :verysad
     
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    Tyson was a bully, I think he loses mentally because Dempsey doesn't back down.
     
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  11. Pugilist_Spec

    Pugilist_Spec Hands Of Stone Full Member

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    Don't put words in my mouth, *******.
     
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  12. Seamus

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    Oh, but did we ever get the chance to know.
     
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    This is the oldest line of tripe in the book. As if Tyson had no talent, skill or great coaching.

    Did Jim Flynn merely call out Dempsey for being a bully and make him lie down cold as a cucumber?
     
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  14. Sangria

    Sangria You bleed like Mylee Full Member

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    I know. What do you think?
     
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  15. Seamus

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    Like anything at that level, it's a percentage game. It troubles me that a prime perfect Dempsey had such trouble with Brennan, or that Carpentier rocked him to his heels or that he had such lapses against a buffoon like Firpo. I would give Dempsey an edge against Wills but on Wills best day and Dempsey's 90% day, that edge is erased.

    Greb is more troubling. He proved a great operator against bigger opponents and Dempsey was most troubled by smaller, shiftier opponents. I am going to favor Dempsey certainly but the bright men favored Tyson against Douglas, or Willard against Dempsey, or Liston against Clay. We need to fight the fights to know. And who should do the fighting are the most deserving.
     
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