Does Tyson run through Marcianos resume unbeaten ?

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  1. emallini

    emallini Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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  2. Richmondpete

    Richmondpete Real fighters do road work Full Member

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  3. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    In a matter of months.
     
  4. mrkoolkevin

    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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    Better question is how many of Marciano's opponents make it past the second round.
     
  5. fists of fury

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    The tempting answer is the above. But we saw Tyson slip against an almost unheralded fighter. It's not inconceivable that he suffers a shock defeat.
    He was a manic-depressive and cokehead who barely trained for some fights...
    Rocky's level of consistency was amazing. Tyson potentially could sleepwalk Marciano's competition, OR a Walcott or Charles is at the right place at the right time...
     
  6. Reason123

    Reason123 Not here for the science fiction. Full Member

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    I wouldn't be surprise if Walcott or Charles beat him.
     
  7. janitor

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    Once a champion stops taking his training seriously, somebody will find a way to beat him.

    Sure as the sun rises in the morning.
     
  8. fists of fury

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    Wise words...
     
  9. mr. magoo

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    Only if he can stay motivated long enough to get through all 49 fights. If he manages to do his then, yes.. He beats them all. If his life, motivation and career begin to fall apart, then there are certainly some men on Rocky's list who could have taken advantage.
     
  10. mrkoolkevin

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    Agreed. The way for one of them to beat him would be to take Tyson to a brothel and get him really, really high the night before the fight.
     
  11. HerolGee

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    Tyson doesn't have the discipline to get through marcianos resume unbeaten.
     
  12. janitor

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    They wouldn’t need to, as he would do this of his own free will.
     
  13. BCS8

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    But that's the thing. Tyson's prime was over before you could blink, practically. Marciano kept chugging fanatically on, churning out stoppage after stoppage.

    PRIME, BEST Tyson vs each opponent could quite probably also do 49-0.

    But Tyson over the span of Marciano's career?

    Hells no.

    Tyson's lesser versions would run into one of the Old Masters like Walcott or Charles or Moore and they would give him a boxing lesson. Consider that at the time Tyson met Buster Douglas, it was five years into his career. That's around the time Marciano fought Jersey Joe.

    I think late Tyson drops at least one if not more fights.
     
  14. BCS8

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    ^ The short version of what I said.
     
  15. foreman&dempsey

    foreman&dempsey Boxing Addict banned

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    :lol:
    tyson would be capable to beat all the rivals of marciano(his complete career) in 2 years lol. in much more dominat fashion. it is like asking if foreman could beat the rivals of hagler :lol: