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

Only an animal would have attempted it at that stage of that fight. :good

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Not Tyson's reign.

Tyson's run to the title and brutal domination of his first title fight.

atsch

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Some of you ****ers need to read for context.

You are putting Tyson's entire championship reign up against Jones' run to the title. atsch

So you can forget about the hype surrounding Tyson around the Spinks and Holmes fights, it is irrelevant. :-( We are comparing Jones to a 20 year old Tyson who has just KOed Berbick, not one who just destroyed Spinks and unified the titles. atsch

You don't see any parallel between the youngest ever heavyweight champion, a heavily-hyped and seemingly unstoppable physical freak who dominated and brutalized all his opponents with vicious technically-evolved highlight reel attacks, and the youngest ever UFC champion, a heavily-hyped and seemingly unstoppable physical freak who dominates and brutalizes all his opponents with vicious technically-evolved highlight reel attacks?

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atsch

****in' moron. :-(

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I'm obviously not saying they are clones of each other at all. Of course there are many differences. The most obvious being that Jones comes across as an extremely controlled, socially well-adjusted young man.

But there are many similarities. As far as the recent light heavyweight champions go, Jones much more than anyone else has the aura that he will kick the living **** out of all comers. People marvel at him, his size relative to the rest of the division, the speed and violence of his attacks.

But even when they are different they are alike because they are on opposite extremes of a scale.

* Tyson was extremely short for his division. Jones is remarkably tall.

* Tyson was notoriously brutal towards women, Jones is unusual for his age in his apparent level of commitment to his long-term partner.

* Tyson was a homeless street kid with no real family whose entire teenage years were dedicated to boxing. Jones came from a stable family with successful siblings and only took up MMA three years before winning the title.

* Tyson was never prepared for how to deal with the money and fame. Jones seems extremely level-headed considering his age and the amount of success he has had in such a short time.

And so on and so on and so on.

Someone like Rua himself announced himself in a spectacular way. As did Belfort. But those guys never seemed like unstoppable physical freaks whose techniques hurt every opponent too badly to mount any effective offence. Tyson seemed like that. And Jones seems like that.

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