Now I'm not really one for question s like "what if Muhammad Ali had 4arms?", but this one intrigues me. What if Tyson possessed a similar set of whisker's as Floyd Patterson? Tyson only really went down after a prolonged beating, he took hard shots and carried on.. so any major changes in his fight career?
Yes. Tyson wouldn't be nearly the force that he had been and might have lost to a few guys that he got caught flush by. Tyson had a great chin and he needed one even given his bobbing style. He had to take risks and anybody taking risks is going to get painted once in a while.
He’d’ve been mediocre if he had Patterson’s chin relative to other heavyweights, but if Patterson stayed at 175lbs, he may have had a good chin, who knows?
He’d probably have been KO’d by someone like … Buster Douglas, lol. Tyson had a better chin than Floyd but nowhere near the resilience and ability to persevere through adversity. Floyd got knocked down a lot (more than any heavyweight champ in history and perhaps more than any champ at any weight in history) but he also got up a lot and many times won fights after being knocked down. Tyson never got up to win a fight. It’s a telling thing on his resume, not coming from behind ever to win a fight. He’s a basic bully/frontrunner type.
