Tyson Idolized Dempsey.....look

He sat and watched hours of fight footage of all the past great fighters with Cus. I bet Cus had quite the collection too. Wonder if Tyson saw any hidden gyms.

 

I think it was Jim Jacobs and I believe at the time it was the biggest and best collection around. I'd do anything for that collection the picture quality superb!

 

ESPN bought those fights..but they use almost none of them (hell classic boxing on classic sports is 90 percent Ali/Tyson replays over and over)..and in fact some concern that they just have the film sitting in a vault waiting to rot away....

 

Tyson was the foremost expert on boxing and undisputed heavyweight champion at the same time.

Undisputed H2H GOAT and boxing scholar.

 

You hear him talking about Canzoneri and Griffith and just say man he knows his ****, i wish i could hear the conversation between him and Bert Sugar where Sugar mad him walk off, id like to hear his opinion on Sam Langford and Harry Greb mostly never heard him talk about them before

 

Dempsey was his favorite fighter, hes said it. even cut his hair like dempsey

 

what was that about? when where did that happen?

 

Before Tyson Holyfield 1 a reporter asked if there was anyway he could see Holyfield beating him and Tyson said "only if they cut off both my arms before I go in their" than a few years later I saw that James J. Jeffries said the exact same thing before his fight with Johnson. Kind of funny that Mike picked smack talk from a guy who went on to lose..when thats exactly what he did.

 

I recall him casually mentioning the name Greb when talking on who might be the greatest of all time. He was replying with a non-answer saying you cant compare different eras but said something like 'guys like Robinson, Greb"

 

Mike might be one of the best historians on boxing in the world at the moment.. Id also like to know what happened with burt sugar???

 

I vaguely remember the conversation, not sure on what the subfect was. But Tyson's reply and conversation ender was pretty memorable...

"Put ya mother in a straight jacket you punk ass white boy. You *****, scared *****. You couldnt last two minutes on ESB Classic, you ho. I'll eat your ******* alive in debate. Your top ten is too mainstream, *****. Look at you scared now you ho, scared of a real historian. Ill **** you till you love me, ******! Im the best ever. Im the most vicious and most ruthless historian theres ever been. Im Matt McGrain, im Softhands69, im from their cloth, theres no one that can match me. My research is impetuous, my nostalgia is impregnable and im just ferocious i want your primary source, i wanna eat your opinions. Praise be to ALLAH!"

 

lol