For all you haters who say Tyson had trouble with taller guys.

I don't think Tyson is given enough credit for his wins against Ruddock. People remember mainly the post-Tyson Ruddock who was caught and stopped in 2 rounds by Lennox Lewis and other fights like the Tommy Morrison slugfest but at the time that Tyson fought him, he was probably the most feared and avoided heavyweight in the world. Bigger, just as strong, if not stronger and probably a harder one-shot puncher then Tyson, yet Tyson was pretty much able to beat him at his own game and dominate him even though Rudduck did manage to land several great shots himself. I would say that Ruddock was never the same fighter again after Tyson

 

Sammy Scaff 6'5" - Tyson KO 1
Mike Jameson 6'4" - Tyson KO 5
Dave Jaco 6'6" - Tyson KO 1
Mitch Green 6'5" - Tyson W 10
Reggie Gross 6'3" - Tyson KO 1
Jose Ribalta 6'5" - Tyson KO 10
Bonecrusher 6'5" - Tyson W 12
Tony Tucker 6'5 - Tyson W 12
Tyrell Biggs 6'5" - Tyson KO 7
Larry Holmes 6'3" - Tyson KO 4
Tony Tubbs 6'3" - Tyson KO 2
Frank Bruno 6'3" - Tyson KO 5, KO 3
Carl Williams 6'4" - Tyson KO 1
Buster Douglas 6'4" - Douglas KO 10
Henry Tillmas 6'3" - Tyson KO 1
Alex Stewart 6'3" - Tyson KO 1
Razor Ruddock 6'3" - Tyson KO 7, W 12
Lou Savarese 6'5" - Tyson KO 1
Andrew Golota 6'4" - Tyson KO 3
Brian Nielsen 6'3" - Tyson KO 7
Lennox Lewis 6'5" - Lewis KO 8
Danny Williams 6'3" - Williams KO 4
Kevin McBride 6'6" - McBride KO 6


Tyson went 21-4 with 17 KO's against opponents 6'3" and taller. Yeah...he struggled so bad he couldn't even knock them all out in the first round.

 

The truth is somewhere in between

Tyson had more trouble with taller fighers overall.

Yet he beat them all during his prime, except when totally lax in training & health against Douglas. You can speculate about height vs. ATGs, but Tyson gets a harder rap than about anyone for "struggling" even during UD when hugged like a Prom Date.

Also many of the names right above were very good contenders, not all "tomato cans".
His competition overall was not bad; most all HWs & so many others get slammed for fighting "bums". And some get a relative pass,

Results vs. Lewis & McHale are an absurd argument. He was pretty shot against an ATG, & basically the ghost of a corpse against McBride.

 

No Tyson didn,t have special trouble with taller guys!
it,s the heavyweight division ! so most guys are taller than 6 feet 2 .
in his prime only loss was against Douglas who is of average height for a heavy.
losing twice against Holyfield proves my point ( Evander being below average height )
losses to LL and Mc Bride had nothing to do with them being tall guys , but with the lack of motivation and proper training .

 

Obviously, Tyson was bound to have trouble with taller guys
when 99.99% of his opposition was taller than him

Ali had trouble with black fighters because he lost to Frazier, Norton, Holmes, Spinks and Berbick

Vitali has trouble with black fighters too because all of his losses and decisions were against black fighters

This whole Tyson struggled with taller fighters is bullsh*t.

Tyson was a puncher, punchers normally struggle with movers or guys who dont play ball

 

That is brilliant.

 

I hope you understand the point i was trying to make?

 

The f*ck? There are plenty of quality names in there. World rated championship caliber fighters that Tyson crushed. Tyson went 21-1 against every opponent that was 6'3" or better until 2002.

Buh bye! :hi:

 

ah right, so basically your a hater?

may as well **** off then, we're tired of wasting braincells on people like you

you're the same **** who believes Foreman was more skilled than Liston

 

I got the point mate yeah, im going to use this sometime.

 

Just stating the facts, f*ckin pud.

 

Tyson fought pretty good competition overall, better than so many HWs & some ATGs.

Spinks was 6' 2", NOT 6'. He was 212 lbs., bigger than some ATGs. He was 31-0 & had never been down in his career.

Let's try to be fair, not just pick a side & throw the most biased possible case together.

 

Easy. James Tillis was 6'1". Step aside.
So what you're saying is Tyson only destroyed guys who were 6'2" or less?