The three causes of Tyson's decline?...

The main cause for me was character.


ps in arguendo,is that, for arguments sake?

 

He was 5'10 with average reach for his height.
I don't think it's fair to say he was "exposed" but eventually one of those big guys was going to box a great fight and crack the code.
I think people expected too much from him.

 

still being a boy in a mans world. wrong women, probably innocence, prison, would surely ruin you.

Ironically if he'd just won the title a few years later when he had matured in his late twenties, he might well have had a longer career.

 

lack of character, I would suggest. He was plainly immature.

 

damatos death. When kevin rooney got fired. Prison, **** allegations. Robin Givens. Don king. Lack of mental discipline without Damato and Rooney around to not let all these things affect him. I would say truly he started veryy slowly declining after damato/rooney. It just wasnt the same Mike. Not training as hard etc.

 

All of the things you mentioned. Not one in particular.

Age and eroding physical attribtes only became a factor after prison. He was never going to rule that long.

Even if he had beaten douglas He would have eventually had to fight ruddock holyfield bowe Lewis foreman moorer mercer morrison etc all in a span of 3 years. Even if everything had gone perfect he would have slipped up or the physical punishment from all the tough fights back to back would have caught up to him.

Best case scenario would have been him beating holyfield foreman lewis bowe in tough fights and lost to one of them in the rematches and all downhill from there just from the wear and tear. Emanuel steward said that fighters like him start slowing down as early as their mid 20s simply because their styles are so demanding and require such physical commitment that its not maintainable for long

 

I mean ,lack of, he made the wrong choices all along the line,and never took responsibility for his actions a great fighter who could have been even greater ,but a sh*tty human being and his character flaws led to his decline.


p s Why not just say, for arguments sake?

 

Boxing is 80% mental and 20% physical....he kept it all together until Spinks but it was downhill from there, mentally he already was in severe decline before prison and I hate to agree with Teddy atlas but he simply did not want to fight anymore after prison but the $$$$ was too good.

I believe Tyson was next to Ali the most naturally gifted with extraordinary talent Heavyweight Price fighter ever but he never ever was able to shake his Ghetto mind set. He was always angry at the World and himself and most of his absurd stunts in and out of the Ring are attention getting blows to destroy any good he has ever done, negativity is his motivation.

That is the reason he does not give two F's about legacy, history ratings , his career, belts, he literally spits on that stuff or what other people think about him, he loves to be hated because he hates himself.

 

If he hadnt gone to prison and kept fighting top level competition i think he would have been finished by 95-96 and no longer a factor in the division by the late 90s just from the punishment he would have taken against the top guys in the early 90s. The ruddock rematch was brutal and he would have likely had several more fights like that in the next couple of years

 

Douglas's footwork was spot on in that fight.
He turned and moved but didn't backpedal and retreat like others had done. He broke Tyson's advancing rhythm. And hit with authority as he was doing it all.

 

He basically suffered from the same fate that every ATG suffers from during a career, nothing exceptional about his case. Tyson at his supposed worst was in a much better condition than many fighters are at their best.

 

Douglas would have been a handful for any heavyweight on that night.