Prime Tyson vs prime Tua

Care to address the other points?

 

Errr...I just told you, Foreman has the higher KO percentage.

 

Yes Tyson was better in those categories.

But those attributes have nothing to do with raw power.

 

Tua's advantages are physical strength and chin. Tyson's advantages are technical skill, speed, defense, and combination punching. Both have similar power. Tua may have more raw power and the heavier hands, but Tyson had the snappier, quicker, and more accurate shots.

I think Tyson would win a UD or TKO depending how much accumulative damage he dishes out on Tua. Too much hand speed, foot speed, skill, and defense for Tua to overcome. His only chance is to land a massive left hook flush on Tyson, get him in trouble, and follow up.

 

tyson tko 5.tua would not go past 5 rounds with tyson between 86-88 tyson was an animal tha version would give any hw ever the fight of their life. tyson could throw 10 punches by the tiime tua could throw 1 not only that but the punches were just as hard as tuas. his footwork and defense were much better than tuas.

tua is a stationary target stand and swing, problem is mikes bob and weave would mean that tua would have to get very lucky to land a punch flush on mike.

the timing of mikes punches were pefect he didnt hit as hard as foreman but his punches overall were better, just like joe louis did not hit as hard as foreman but had a better punch. a combination of speed power and timing.

 

Yep, have to agree with that post

 

This fight would be like Hagler-Mugabi, with Tua getting ktfo in the late rounds due to exhaustion and punch accumulation.

 

Tyson would be quicker & more accurate. He'd make Tua pay for his wide hooks with shorter, faster punhes. Tua had a good chin so would absorb some of it but would get stopped in four looking pretty bruised.

 

IDIOT

let me put this in terms even a fool like you can understand.

TUA does not have the skill to land cleanly on Tyson with any consistency.

Tyson gets frustated when he cant hit you not when you can take his punch.

Tua loses a decision while getting a beating in the process.

Contrary to what you believe Tyson was capable of winning a decision if the KO did not come

 

Its unfair IMO to compare Lewis vs Tyson when he fought Tyson as at that stage, Tyson was well beyond his prime and not ready for Lewis, again, I say at that time.
Just as Lewis had said in an interview that earlier in his career when both were training at the same gym he had seen Tyson hitting the bag he thought to himself something along the lines of "I dont want to fight that guy..he's an animal"...
In other words, they put Lewis to fight Tyson when he was ready to fight him. If Lewis would have faced Tyson in his prime, he would have obvioulsy been overmatched. By the time Lewis was ready, Tyson was well beyond his prime and fighting for the wrong reasons (money).

And by the way, I pick Tyson over Tua prime for prime. In his prime, his ability to put combinations together with such speed and accuracy would probably end the fight in ko or if not by lob sided UD.

 

The Tua that fought Ike ko's Iron Mike. He loses UD to every other version of Tua.