My first thought was I am getting ready to chew his ear off!... ~ Holy on Tyson.

4 all of his blatant elbows , Tyson deserved every single headbutt from Holyfield .
Unlike Holyfield's headbutts , 100% of Tyson's career's elbows were deliberate and were his style : miss a hook , land n elbow .

 

Isn't he your #2 P4P all-time Frank?

 

When does Legends come out. I've always enjoyed Holyfield, and the Holyfield-Tyson fights & story behind them are fascinating.

 

he was #1 briefly , #2 and sometimes below Qawi b/c after all Qawi lasted 15 against Holyfield while older and much smaller and didn't really lose in d 1st fight , whereas Tyson couldn't last 12 while younger and not that much smaller (even bigger , 2 some) .

I'd rather split my p4p 2 eras and my problem is how 2 divide d history 2 eras : d mafia era , d color line era , d ND & NWS era , as well as other notable changes in d sport throughout time .

I'd rather not spoil d thread by changing subjects further , but Tyson's "style" does not comply with d rules of d sport . Tyson's cheating may b worse than Hopkins' if u know what i mean .

 

It's hard 4 me 2 understand how come Tyson didn't counter Holyfield's head with his elbows , reads like tailor made 4 Tyson Xept it wasn't and i wonder y . Holyfield deserves some respect 4 trying (?) and succeeding at butting Tyson .


Really , i once admired Tyson , but his style does not deserve any credit as far as boxing goes .
Real life ? MMA abolished it , in its majority , even professional MT abolished it .
Real life really ? his style is vulnerable 2 headkicks & knees , not 2 mention pushdowns and rabbit elbows .

 

Every ****ing week this old guy talks about Tyson biting his ear.
I don't know if he's too polite to tell the interviewers 'next question' or whether he so old and punch-drunk he doesn't even remember that's his said the same thing five millions times before.

 

It would have been funny to see Holyfield (attempt) to kick Tyson in the balls and what Mike reaction to that would have been.

 

Would have been funny to see Holyfield attempt to use the same tactics against Tyson in 1991.

 

With all due respect to Holy, Tyson would have pushed his **** in.

Totally different animal pre prison.

I did post a detailed interview from holy quiet a few months back. Holy stated when he first fought Tysin in 96, he wondered if Tyson could still fight hard after prison, like he used to before

Ive always said, and i stick by this, i believe Tyson lost his bottle in prison, he lost his fighting guts somewhere between 91-95. Then he came out of prison and was treated like a king and everyone was grovelling before him, he got undeserved title shots after beating Mcneely and Mathis, then holy bought him back to reality.

Hes admitted it himself, he bit Holyfields because things werent going his way and he was acting like a spolied brat

 

Not just because things weren't going his own way, he quite clearly knew he wasn't going to win. Prime for prime Its a genuine 50-50 but I'd still slightly favour holyfield

On the actual subject of this thread, I'm with Legend X. We've heard evander talk about this way too many times

 

You really think Evander would go so far as to skin Mike alive after kicking him in the balls? I happen to think he's nicer than that. :think

 

Where is the interview where he says he loves Jesus but refuses to pay child support to his 18 kids?

 

I thought that he does pay and that's y he hasn't retired yet .