Savon vs Tyson?!?!?!?

well i don't know in what year it should have taken place if savon had said yes. but the tyson from 85 to 90 would have beaten savon. ko'd him within 7 rounds

 

Doesnt sound like he had any chance of making this fight, Frank Warren was a nobody then and would never have any pull over Mike Tyson. Maybe Frank was hoping to sign and smuggle the Cuban out via this journo and get a piece of the pie that way. The journo probably got paid to write a piece on meeting the great Savon, I half doubt he ever left his job to do it

 

I rank Savon as one of the greatest amateurs ever, but i think Tyson would destroy him in the pros. Savon, as great as he was, had an amateur-based style which is great for 3 rounds, but 12 rounds without constant referee interference is a whole different story. Remember that he was only 200 lbs, at 6'5 and had a few stoppage losses.

For instance, if you look at the Chagaev fight, you can see that he is a bit too dependent on that right hand, and it appeared to me that he would've crumbled late in the fight, had it gone 12 rounds. One might say he was past his best in that bout, but Chagaev was just as much green as he was old.

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The transition period required then wasn't half as radical, nor as time consuming as it is now.

You have to completely re-invent your style, footwork, defence.... the lot.

 

I had heard they tried twice to get Savon. Once when Tyson came back after the Douglas fight and also after prison. Tillman was ultimately chosen for Tyson after Douglas. (Tillman beat Tyson in the amatuers) Savon never wanted any part of pro boxing or to leave Cuba. Im sure Castro promised him he would always be taken care of as he is their ultimate boxing hero.

 

According to many Cuban Boxing fans in the Island...Savon never had a strong chin....

He had skills, but 1 punch and he's on the floor...

Tyson TKO5

 

It's actually true, Savon now works as a judge in Cuban Boxing, just like Castro takes care of Stevenson...

they don't offer them a luxury house or anything like most celebrities in the US have, but the Cuban Government gives them a house he and his family can laid back with, raise pigs, and that's how he makes a living, just like alot of of Cubans do in the Country side.

They raise animals, and sell em for a living.

 

Savon's probably the best Cuban amateur boxer since Teofilo Stevenson,and there have been a lot of good ones from that country. The Tyson fight would have been a no no though.

 

From 85 to 87, Savon won gold at the Jr world, the world, the pan-american, and the world cup. Without the boycott, he would have gone to the 88 olympics.

IF he was gonna turn pro, late 88 or early 89 was the time for it. That would have made him a contemporary of Mercer, Bowe & Lewis.

 

Maybe he would have been as good as Fraudley Harrison as a pro?