If you were laying a bet, in their primes....

tyson would be scared shitless of ali knowing that he wouldnt be intimidated of him...you know the rest after that

 

If you think Tyson was in his prime when he fought Douglas, you know nothing of Iron Mike.

 

:roll:

It's about 50/50 the way I see it, taking a pre-exhile Ali vs a peak version of Tyson from the years '86-'88, with his original team in his corner. That was the version that everyone speaks of when talking about a "prime Tyson" and that was the version that would've given any HW hell.

People take into the account Tyson's pre-prime win over Quick Tillis where he didn't look too sharp without taking into account Ali being dropped and hurt by far lesser fighters, and being susceptible to a left hook and a variety of punches because of his very flawed defense, technically. He would throw a combo on a fighter and then back off with his hands down, which is why he got caught the majority of the time by a big punch after he'd backed off. And if he's getting tagged by guys like Cooper, Jones, Banks, etc he'd definitely get tagged by Tyson.

As it stands, a lot of that happened to a young Ali as well, and we never really got to see the best of Ali in his exhile, but from what we've seen, I'd say Tyson has a very good chance of beating Ali at his best. Ali also has the chance of outboxing Tyson and frustrating him down the stretch to a UD win.

 

And are we seriously not past the "If you stood up to Tyson he would crumble" myth, yet? That is just plain ignorance combined with lack of knowledge.

 

ali baby!
alot of those old time experts said sonny liston was mike tyson before mike tyson was mike tyson

 

+1

 

Have you seen any of Liston's fights?