McCall vs Tyson

Tyson UD.

 

Because they all held on and spoiled, McCall maybe more likely to engage. McCall chin maybe a little overated, lets look at the punchers he faced:

Lennox Lewis: Lennox didnt have time to get his best shots off in the first and in the second was tentative

Bruno - got tagged early and went into a shell. Yes he took Brunos big shot but it made him tentative to engage

Maskeev - blasted out early

TOS - lost took some good shots but not a supernatural chin showing

Douglas - didnt see this 1 but Douglas isnt a massive puncher and is a coaster type

 

Tyson ALL-DAY!!

 

Tyson - but Mccall has the ultimate chin - but I think he would do something erratic to get out of the fight - maybe break down crying or something - tyson by disqualification

 

McCall's strength and chin would make up for the fact that he did not possess some of the 'spoiling skills' of the others you mentioned.

It doesn't matter whether you think his chin is overrated or not it's still at least as good as Tucker or Green and they both went the distance.

He still landed a good amount of big shots in the 2nd fight and couldn't shift McCall.

One of the few times I ever saw McCall visibly effected by the power of another fighter. Still, McCall took the shots.

I don't see Tyson KO'ing McCall. Sorry. He may, may, force a TKO if the referee steps in because McCall's taking too many shots but that's the only way I see the fight being stopped early. Unless McCall breaks down and refuses to defend himself ala Lewis II of course.

 

Tyson UD. McCall obviously had a granite chin and excllent survival skills, but wouldn't be able to come close to putting up any truly effective offence. It would be a bit like a more one-sided version of Tyson-Ruddock II, minus the knockdowns of course.

 

Saying Bruno put McCall into a shell is misleading. McCall was beating the **** out of a, exhausted, Ruiz like Bruno the last few rounds of that fight.

He was hit so hard by Bruno he was literally thrown half way across the ring into the ropes and he didn't look the least bit affected.

Aware of Bruno's power? Sure.

Cowering from it? No.

 

But the more I think of it, the more I think Tyson would stop McCall.

Tyson's speed and aggression, in his prime, was very difficult for the B-level fighters to deal with. I consider Oliver a B-level fighter (which is good, in my opinion, just not a champion, or great).

Furthermore, we all know McCall has a great chin- but what about the body? Tyson could rip the body when he wanted to, and in this case, who knows, Tyson might be able to finish McCall with a furious body assult.

 

McCall was very hard to hit to the body, since he spent so much time defending it instead of his chin. When he was hit there, he showed no susceptibility to body shots. I think Tyson could give himself an easier time in the later rounds, but there would be no stoppage opportunity there.

All of Tyson's prime opposition was B-level at best, but McCall was an exceptionally durable B-level opponent.

 

They could fight 100 times and the result is the same: Tyson UD.

 

This fight almost happend, if McCall would of beat Douglas in 89, Tyson would of had to fight McCall in 90 instead of Douglas. I think this fight would of been very interesting, I think a better question the thread starter should of posed was "Would McCall of beaten the Douglas that fought Tyson that night in Tokyo"?

I think it's a 50/50, Mccall did have the chin to stay in the match the whole night, and the right hand to keep Tyson on his toes. While didnt have the reach/Jab of Douglas, or the drive he had that night, he did have the better chin and bigger punch. I could see this one going either way, Tyson spent too much time having orgies with Japanese girls to worry about training, which makes for a pretty even fight in my book.

 

Tyson might have trained even less for McCall, given that it is very hard for a world champion to get motivated against a former sparring partner.

 

Imagine if McCall had upsets over Lewis AND Tyson?

That'd be unbelievable.

 

It would be interesting to see what it would do to his standing in ATG rankings. Also, if McCall had beat Tyson, he'd have got to fight Holyfield; he'd almost certainly lose, but I imagine he'd do very well. Then again Bert Cooper wasn't too far from KO'ing the pig-headed and rash young Holyfield, while McCall hit harder and was far more durable than Cooper, so we couldn't discount McCall's chances completely. Holyfield in 1990 was still well away from his prime.