Mike Tyson's hundred-proof fists

That was a wicked beating. The poor fellow wanted the f*ck to get up, but maybe the boxing gods just decided to spare him from severe cranial misalignment.

 

Shows you what speed and power can do combined. Berbick really thought he would be able to fight with Tyson. Stupid decision.

 

Funny Tyson in his documentary said he had gonnareha during that fight and his crotch was burning so badly he just wanted to end the fight as quickly as possible. He didnt tell anyone going into the fight because he was too embarrassed. What a way to become the youngest heavyweight champion.

 

I thought Tyson never looked better offensively than against Berbick. 4, 5 punches combinations with amazing speed. The Spinks fight could also pass for that, but it was a bit too short.

 

He is great, in the doc as well, where he is saying he saw him beat Ali, and he wanted to punish him for beating Ali (or something along those lines)

 

This just shows what a marvelous fighter Tyson was back in the day. To think he was just 20, a mere 20 years old! He wasn't even old enough to purchase or consume alcohol in America! Wonder what shop keeper refused to give the then 20 year old HW champion alcohol? There cannot have been many, if any at all!

Berbick could not cope with volume of punches coming his way. Tyson's speed & variety really surprised Berbick. The combo that nearly puts him away late in the first - Berbick literally cannot see the punches coming & it caught cleanly & often!

At 20 years old, the world watching, the pressure on, Tyson put in a memorable showing!

Tremendous!

 

What is just as spectacular as his astonishing success is his rapid decline to being an ineffective memory of what he was before D'amato died.

 

Berbick actually surprised me by fighting so aggressively and bravely. He came out and met Tyson head on. Another case where the whole "all you had to do to beat Tyson was stand up to him" B.S gets deflated. But berbick showed no fear and was trying to outmuscle Tyson.....Tyson said after the fight that Berbick was a lot stronger than he thought he would be.

 

Tyson was a bit of a machine those days. He had he flaws, but with each outing he seemed to just get a little better each time out. I guess he was focused and happer back then. He had a goal to aspire to and disillusionment hadn't set in at that stage.

 

He meant the fighting style Berbick chose to take on Tyson with, not choosing to participate in the fight itself. Berbick chose to "fight" Tyson head on, which was suicide.

Anyway, I think Angelo Dundee, Berbick's trainer for the fight, summed it up best after the fight:

"This kid don't let you do what you want to do," Berbick's trainer Angelo Dundee will say after the fight. "He created the pressure and my guy didn't react to the pressure . . . . He throws combinations I never saw before. When have you seen a guy throw a right hand to the kidney, come up the middle with an uppercut, then throw a left hook. He throws punches . . . like a trigger."

 

that kidney shot also contributed to the KO.

 

I think people sometimes forget, there was a lot of doubt about Tyson pre fight. Indeed with a couple of weeks to go, the bookies had the fight as pick-em, although come fight time Tyson was a very warm favourite.

I figured Tyson to win, but thought it would be a real test, and for the first minute or so, as picked out in the American commentary, it looked like either could go.

 

Did Patterson throw unorthodox combinations like that?