So let's just remove the Klitschko's Now let's drop a young 18-20 year old Mike Tyson into the year 2003. In this alternate universe Lennox Lewis retired without having the Vitali fight as in this Era for terms of this question he did not exist.. Now to the meat of the question does Tyson rule over this landscape as a undefeated undisputed champion or does he run into a "Douglas"? Some of the best around this time were: Chris Byrd, Corrie Sanders, John Ruiz, James Toney (HW), David Tua, Hasim Rahman, Frez Oquendo, Lamon Brewster, Andrew Golota, Kirk Johnson, Danny Williams, Montee Barrett, Jameel Mccline, Sam Peter, Oleg Maskaev, Eddie Chambers, Valuev, Briggs, Chagaev, Ibragamov, Thompson, Brock, Povetkin, Haye, Austin, Arreola, Adamek, Pulev, Wach, Stiverne, Fury, Wilder, Jennings, Ortiz, Joshua.. Ok that's a lot of names. Thoughts?
Looking at each one individually it's hard to imagine one of them defeating the prime Iron Mike who possessed a very high Peak performance rating. However, Mike's lifestyle outside of the ring led to a short prime and there is no way he would get through all these names in a cumulative fighting manner without dropping a couple.
Yeah being that Mike was unbeatable it seemed from 86 until that night in early 1990. If we go from Klit beating Byrd for the IBF belt that's short he'd of been faltering around the time Klitschko was beating; Sam Peter, David Haye, Thompson, Mormek, Wach... Interesting indeed..
Tyson sparks or decisions everyone imo. I mean there is a difference between the Tyson that fought Tillis and the Tyson that fought Berbick. A green Tyson could have dropped a decision but I doubt it.
