Headbutt Holyfield

Rough House tatics, Mike Tyson used elbow's many times during fights.

Evander Holyfield was just a better bully than Mike Tyson.

 

Holyfield was dirty, but so were many fighters.

Tyson himself wasn't the cleanest of fighters, even before the Holyfield fights. He hit Ferguson, Ruddock, and others after the bell. He hit Bruno, Halpin, and others when they were down. He elbowed Bruno, Biggs, Spinks, and others. He was trying to headbutt (with not nearly as much success as Holyfield uses it) Ruddock early in their first fight in a clinch.

Other guys had fought dirty against Tyson before, but Tyson usually didn't go to such a level as biting the guy's ears. That's probably because Tyson was still winning the fight, and didn't have a bad cut over his eye.

Tyson went too far, but I wouldn't have really blamed Hasim Rahman too much if he had bitten Holyfield.

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I love rough house fighting, Mike Tyson a decent rough house fighter. He would try and snap fighters arm's, in clinches elbow fighters etc etc

 

It was one of his favorite weapons, the headbutt. I remember he said God personally told him that he'd knock out Lewis in the 3rd. So in the 3rd, after taking a few punches, he comes forward but ends up short, then launches in head-first, lands a good headbutt and opens the way up for legal follow-up.

And sometimes he'd just over-do it. Against Foreman, at the end of the 3rd round, he mixes in a blatant, hard headbutt after he lands 10 or so power shots flush... asif he wasn't doing enough as it was.

 

ha ha ha ha ah aha ha

 

Haha, i jut watched the doc for the secnd time, you know the last time i watched that fight properly was live. When i watched it again on the doc it does give you the feeling that Tyson starts to show the heart to go on and win that fight. Maybe i'm just thinking wishfully, like to think so though.

Also in that doc i learned that Tyson always had something to say about his losses as in 'i never trained properly' etc, very similar to Roberto Duran. I'm not knocking him, i think it's because he, like Roberto is a winner and winners don't like to accept defeat. Brilliant, i'm still a little in awe from the documentary.

Tyson is and always will be the man.

 

Yeah you are right, Holyfield is pushing his luck but Tyson fukd it up. I would dearly luv Mike Tyson to have a w over Holyfield on his record though McGrain.

 

Holyfield pretty much admitted it. When asked he said that he just did whatever it took for him to win the fight.

Tyson himself bragged about using rough tactics against his opponents, often telling the story about Tyrell Biggs asking him to stop using elbows to which Tyson answered whether Biggs would like another one...

I understand why Tyson did what he did but it was not acceptable, not even in Tyson's own opinion. Tyson said that a warrior should never lose his discipline under any circumstances.

Holyfield was using dirty tactics but Tyson went into pure rage and had no intentions of stopping which is why he was disqualified. He was given a chance after the first bite but he went at it again and thus was disqualified, justifiably.

By the way I've heard that Holyfield admitted to biting an opponent in the amateurs, can anyone confirm this? I believe it was in the Ring Magazine.

 

Well he certainly overdid it in the Tyson rematch.:good