Mike Tyson would beat Wilder right now with 6 weeks of training in 1 minute.

Tyson’s reflexes can’t avoid punches from professional fighters any more. When he’s throwing, he can still generate world level speed, but he can’t see a punch coming, get his muscles moving, and avoid the punch in time to not take damage.

for the most part, skill level and stamina have devolved from its apex in the 70s-90s. To be expected with the shortening of fights and proliferation of sanctioning bodies and belts.

 

I have eyes. I can watch a fight and see that they usually don't fight at the pace of previous era. Numbers can be deceptive. I'll explain how.

Fight #1

Fighter A throws 500 punches
Fighter B throws 475 punches

Fight #2

Fighter A throws 490 punches
Fighter B throws 488 punches

At first glance you'd be quick to say both groups of fighters threw roughly the same number of punches and therefore, fought at the same pace. It doesn't always work like that.

The fighter A of Fight #1 could have thrown 400 jabs with only 100 power punches and mostly clinched every 30 seconds. Technically he would have thrown more punches than fighter A of fighter #2 but which would be more entertaining? What if fight #2 was like Foreman vs Lyle or Bowe vs Holyfield?

That's why it's a flawed argument to claim the current era of heavies supposedly fight at a high pace based on a few exceptions like kownacki vs arreola or Joshua vs Klitschko as if all the recent heavy fights look like that. They simply don't. I'm pretty sure I have seen every fight that you and I both brought up and they usually did not have the extreme action packed back and forth high volume exchanges you are claiming.

I cannot remember the last time I saw a late 11 or 12 round rally in modern heavyweight fights the way Ali rallied against shavers, Holmes and Norton, Frazier and Ali, Holmes and witherspoon, Bowe and Holyfield, tua and ike, etc. I can't remember the last time I saw any inside fighting at all.

You have you to disprove my point about the lack of knockout artists outside of Wilder who is sloppy and has very few good names on his record.

 

If Tyson can beat him in a minute imagine what Killer Kevin McBride would do.