Prime Tyson vs Prime Frazier

Tyson also knocked out every single mutual opponent with Bowe in much mode emphatic fashion, asides from Holyfield.

Tubbs, Biggs, Golota, Seldon, Ferguson, Mathis

And his performances with mutual opponnts with Lewis were just as good.

Both beat Tucker, neither of them stopped him. Between them the stopped Botha, Golota, Ruddock, Bruno, Biggs
Lewis has the wins over Holyfield though

 

RIP Joe Frazier. The man was a gentleman, a fine champion and had the heart of a lion.

This fight could go one of two ways, all fights can of course but let me explain;

Joe Frazier was a slow starter who built up momentum as a fight went on, Tyson on the other hand was a very fast starter who started to run out of steam when a fight went into the later rounds.
Therefore Tyson could blast out Frazier early or Frazier could take him out late. Tyson came out looking for the KO from the first second of round one and was at his most dangerous during the first three rounds. He would come on strong as Frazier was just warming up, with Frazier being the toe to toe fighter he was that would mean taking a lot of punishment early on. Only someone with a solid jaw could survive prime Tyson's blend of speed, aggression and power so Tyson may well TKO Frazier in the first three.

However Frazier had a great fighting heart and I believe his chin gets underrated. He was taken out twice by George Foreman but how many other of history's heavyweights would have stood up to the power of prime Foreman? The first Foreman fight is one of the greatest displays of heart in boxing history from Frazier, he was floored six times by Foreman and got up six times, very few men could have gotten up once. Look at the Ali fights too, Ali wasn't the biggest puncher but he was over 200 lbs and Frazier walked through his punches in all three of their fights.

I think Frazier has a chance of getting through the first three rounds with Tyson because he was so tough and resilient. If he did make it through he would take Tyson out late, as we know stamina was always a problem with Tyson. As Tyson faded Frazier would smoke and take him out in the later rounds.
Source: Yahooanswers

 

Not true. Lewis performed better against Tucker, Botha,Golota,Ruddock and Biggs. Tyson performed better against Bruno but as you stated he lost twice to Holyfield who himself was bested by Lewis.

 

You wanna go that route than I'll add that Tyson fought better versions of Tucker, Biggs, Bruno and Ruddock. :deal

 

Tucker was 14-0 between the Tyson and Lewis fights and had not been knocked down in his career until that point. Yup Biggs was shot. Bruno fought the fight of his life against Lewis IMO his best ever performance, Ruddock was in shape and coming off back to back KO victories.

 

It was always a problem. By his own admission Tyson said he had a lung disease and he had to always try for early round KOs. This is even reflected in his record, Tyson only has 2 stoppage wins after 6 rounds and 0 after 8. His punch output in late rounds would always seemingly drop dramatically.

It wouldn't matter though because he would blow Frazier out within a few rounds.

 

The Ribalta stoppage was a disgrace IMO, the man was fine and had took Tyson's shots all night long.

 

For some reason I thought he finished Ribalta quicker. The point still basically stands Tyson was not much of a late finisher. I think it would be quite hard to have good cardio with bad lungs.

 

Holyfields performance was amazing and your right, nobody just 'weathered the storm' against Tyson and survived.

Guys like Lewis, Douglas and Holyfield (who had a bombproof chin anyway) kept out of the dangerzone and took Tyson into the later rounds and tired him out.

I think Ruddock was the only guy who stood his ground and traded with Tyson from start to end and finished the fight on his feet (even smiling as he got up from a knockdown). Ruddock, for a very short time was a bad ass motherfunker. His problem was, he was in Tysons era.