Floyd Mayweather And Mike Tyson. Who Is The Better Boxer? (not Who Would Win)

Iron mike was a great boxer as a means to destroy. Jab, left hook to body, left hook to head combined with elbow then vicious right upercut.

reset bob weave peakaboo guard good foot to get angle then right to body left hook then right cross fight is over

40 seconds top. too destructive to guage boxing ability

defaulting to TBE for this award.

 

Both.

 

Pound for pound Mike by far.

 

Like chalk & cheese Tyson was a FIGHTER!! Out to destroy Mayweather was a Prima Donna with the cojones of a gnat He had a state commission, a drug testing agency & hometown Vegas officials all working together to make sure he kept that bogus 0

 

And like chuck e cheese, you're a lying rat!!

 

ROFL The rumors were wrong then you didn't get perma banned. Bet you whined & cried till they let you back

 

Tyson losing to Douglas would be akin to mayweather losing to Robert guerrero

 

WTF? when was this?

 

But he was getting high and drunk every night and not training the way Cus taught him. He squandered the best years of his life being a street (person) which got him where the **** he was by 2002, broke and desperate. At his 1987-89 peak his defense was impregnable. It was and still is the greatest defensive/offensive style ever created and he mastered it and no one has ever been able to properly imitate it, just like the Mayweathers defensive style.

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Please look at what I sent to Richmondpete. People were so caught up in Mikes punches they ignored the fact that he rarely ever got hit clean by guys bigger than him.

 

That depends on what you are looking for, Mike was great on the front foot as Floyd was great on the counterpunching.

 

I agree with everything you are saying and I love Tyson but mayweather continued improving over a long career and Tyson unfortunately didn't. If mayweather was getting drunk and high all the time and got ko'd by a lesser guy I would hold it against him

 

good post. as soon as i saw the title, my mind started computing a similar response.
tyson at his best, for how he fought, was not that far separated from mayweathers pure skill level. different approaches to combat, but both requiring equal skill level and athleticism. the way he overcame the disadvantage in stature and length by bobbing and weaving back and forth as he moved past your long jab, was beautiful to watch. once he stopping using his waist like that, he started relying on bullying his way into punching range.