Tyson-Holyfield 1 rememebering it

I remember this fight well. I saw it at a race track. The crowd seemed to be even split between Holyfield and Tyson fans. The Tyson fans were freaken hilarious.



They thought Holyfield went low when he landed a body shot that Rocked Tyson. It wasn’t low at all. Once the replay showed it, the Holfyield fans said, yep it was low on Tyson's ribs.



When Tyson was TKO’d his fans screamed out FIX! They could not beleive it. If you watch the fight, you can see it was going Holyfield way as early as round 6.

 

Legend? Is that you?

 

Both guys were past their prime, but Holyfield adapted much better. Holyfield fought a very good and smart fight, saying he learned from the Bowe losses to control his aggression.

Holyfield was very controlled in his aggression against Tyson, clinching a lot, and picking his spots, rather than falling into an unnecessary brawl like he often did in the past.

 

Holyfield was washed-up. Tyson's people picked him because he was an easy touch whose name would command a big purse. Holyfield was expected to put on a brave fight for a couple of rounds, better than Bruce Seldon or Frank Bruno managed, but it should have been a quick win for Tyson. Tyson had look damned good against Bruno and was being tipped to dominate the division again, clean-up within a year.

Holyfield was a huge underdog. Many people feared for his safety. His courage was going to be the death of him, literally.

But washed-up Holyfield beat the **** out of Tyson. He bullied him, smashed him about, Tyson looked weak in comparison. Holyfield was aggressive and had a real will to win, but he was a lot slower than he'd been in his prime and there was a lot of flat-footed exchanges and lots of wrestling. Tyson was doing a lot of the holding. It's quite an ugly fight, not a great one, but at the time it was bewildering.

 

Neither was washed up, but both were past their primes. I agree that even though it was captivating to watch it live, it's kind of boring to watch it a second time, because there's not much boxing going on. But Holyfield fought a really smart fight and just stunned everybody (especially Tyson, of course).

 

Pretty much spot on. The Tyson apologists don't want to hear it but he got beat fair and square by the better man.

The view on the fight prior to the start was exactly as Sonny says: many were fearful for Holyfield. I never thought Holy stood a chance. Tyson was looking as good as ever in the fights leading up to this.