He might have been a bum, and a walking piece of lard, but he was undeniably a world class heavyweight. He was fighting elite fighters, and he was sometimes bating them. It would have taken an active professional fighter to beat him.
Yes he was. Williams was never anything more that a Commonwealth grade heavyweight, and we wouldn't even be talking about McBride, if Tyson's team hadn't selected him as a safe opponent.
Even the greatest can't beat father time. We've seen how bad Tyson was at the end of his career and he's definitely not better now. Galento might be a bum, but Mike wouldn't last 12 rounds with active pro HW at that age. Especially not with the one who is as powerful as Galento and old Tyson has no physical advantages over him.
I find this thread very disrespectful to Galento He'd destroy that version of Tyson. Beat the living sh*t outta him. Simply said, he'd Moider da bum
In boxing, Galento was somewhat of an oddity - but at times, a strangely effective oddity. He could throw a spanner in the works for those who tried to box him conventionally - and they don’t come any more fundamentally sound than Joe Louis who hit some very rough bumps with the Fat Man before eventually dispatching him.
So is Andy Ruiz. Actually, Ruiz is much fatter than Galento ever was - would you take 2021 Tyson over Ruiz as well?
It's not a matter of better but styles .. Tyson at that time was still extremely dangerous for a round or two as his fight against Etienne proved .. Galento was a small wide open brawler .. still he beats the 55 year old Tyson as he could take it better in that comparison .. This content is protected
Galento was not a world class fighter and Tyson is still more skilled than Galento I think Roy at this age may have out-pointed Galento.
These kinds of threads are pointless. If you already don't think much of Galento, you will never pick him to beat any skilled modern guy even if they're brought into the ring in a body cast. If you think Galento was even remotely good, you will pick him to beat an extremely faded version of Tyson. It's just a back and forth agenda pushing contest.
What a trash thread; why not putting 60 years old parkinson Ali against Akebono from the Sapp defeat?
If I'm not mistaken, Ruiz is also taller. But Ruiz is more skilled than Galento. And way faster too. So the comparison with Galento doesn't make sense.
That's because you have no idea how much worse physically people are at that age. We've seen Tyson against complete scrubs in the early 2000s and he was still more skilled than them - how did it help him? Now make him 20 years older and make him stop any sort of training for two decades. We've seen how badly Jeffries look just after 5 years of retirement (and he was still relatively young). Tyson would be destroyed by any professional boxer who fights at world level in 12 rounder.
So what? He's still fatter, you can be taller and fatter at the same time. I don't compare Ruiz to Galento, I ask you if you'd take 60 years old Tyson over a tub of lard that Ruiz is.
Whatever Galento's failings, and they were many, he was unquestionably a world class fighter. It just can't be viewed any other way, given the opponents that he beat.
