Open with something unrelated to their fight -- 1) If Witherspoon had defeated Bonecrusher, would he have fought Tyson? It was part of the unification "tournament" but I wasn't positive if it was a for sure thing. 2) What was Bonecrusher's strategy going in? 3) What did he hope to accomplish with what he did employ? Take Tyson deeper or was it mostly self preservation? 4) Was Bonecrusher given more than a puncher's chance? Not sure why this fight, that was pretty awful and I don't have the desire to rewatch much , fascinates me. Maybe it is because of how disappointing it was. Sent from my NS-P10A6100 using Tapatalk
Yes, Witherspoon would have fought Tyson if Smith hadn't knocked him out. Bonecrushers strategy was to jump on Tyson like he did against Witherspoon, but he admitted that he was too cautious once the fight began.
Bonecrusher admits he was scared. There was a lot of hype behind Tyson, and Tyson had just sent Berbick to Bolivia in a display of awesomeness. Smith was big and bad and experienced enough to know better, but the occasion got to him. Tyson was probably equally as nervous (apparently he burst into tears in the dressing room after the fight, sobbing in his trainer's arms - according to his biographer Montieth Illingworth) but Tyson, for the most part, turned his fear into a fighting performance, whereas Smith just held to survive.
Smith was intimidated, for sure. And he was so much bigger than Tyson. If had been less concerned for his well-being and just let his hands go, it might've been a hell of a fight.
Yeah very true .Tyson had such aura of fear about him that even someone as dangerous as Smith was cautious.just shows how gutsy Douglas was on that crazy night in Tokyo.