Those of us who were too young for prime Tyson should appreciate what Jones is doing.

I wasn't around so correct me if im wrong but, I don't think tyson faced anybody as good as shogun when he was on fire. I understood he ran through a bunch of nobody's and by the time he faced real competition he was taking it for granted.

 

Tyson pretty much ran through the whole division up until the **** charge and he was scheduled to fight Holyfield before getting a prison sentence.

From the start up until prison - Tyson fought everyone.

 

Yeah and got beat up by Buster Douglas.

 

Tyson had immensely more buzz surrounding him! atsch

Essentially everyone living person on the planet knew "kid dynamite."

 

Yep

The thing about Tyson was his level of skill. People would see these other huge powerful fighters to include guys like Berbick and Ruddock. He was a small skill guy with good power who cut through big guys due to his ability to close the distance and mix it up inside.

Jones is sort of the opposite styelwise. He is pushing the limit as to the weight/ size constraints.

Hype?

I think Pay Per view was pretty much invented off of Tysons back. EVERYONE knew about Tyson. He had his own friggin dance.

 

Hulk Hogan would have something to say about that.

 

Mike was 37-0 at that stage, 10 title defences.

As Greg Jackson said - "We'll see if Jones handles the adveristy of success"

Which is what got to Mike.

 

I don't see the similarity at all. :-(

Tyson was a good, conventional boxer with exceptional speed, power and savagery.

Jones is a new breed of MMA fighter, with outstanding wrestling and unorthodox striking allied to insane physical advantages.

Tyson was an explosion, a brutal force.

Jones is a puzzle that so far cannot be solved, a stylistic nightmare.

Poles apart, IMO.

Tyson was more like the Pride MW GP era Shogun, and Jones is more like a mid-1990s Roy Jones Jr, if you are looking for boxing references.

 

Tyson was an indomitable force that caused his opponents to have nightmares before facing him. His opponents were defeated before even entering the ring -- they feared death.
The whole world knew who Tyson was. He was superstar and a celebrity. He was the scariest athlete known to man.

Jones is a great MMA fighter but lacks all of the above.

 

No doubt, Mike won his fights before even entering the ring with the intimidation factor. Haven't seen too many fighters who actually LOVE to inflict pain and explode and run through their opponents from the instant the bell rings. Different levels of the psyche and mind - one's a technician, the other's an animal.

 

I really disagree with your last sentence, and find it bizarre that someone whose username suggests they are a big Tyson fan can have misread him so badly. Your whole post is BS in fact. :-(

Mike Tyson was himself an excellent heavyweight technician. He has superb head movement and defence for a heavyweight, excellent punch variety, and had good fundamentals. The man was a BOXER who fought with POWER and INTENSITY, it really pisses me off when people speak about him as if he was a ******ed wilderbeast let out a cage in the arena. :nono

 

:huh Erm, yes. You think it's easy to land a flying knee on Shogun Rua? It was superb technique, agility, speed and balance which allowed him to do that. Only a technician could have pulled it off.