Tyson never won a big fight since 1990. Bull****!

Ruddock may have been a dumb fighter, but was still a hard-hitting dangerous one who was a highly ranked contender at the time. Those were good wins for Tyson and pretty big fights.

 

Bruno won every round of that fight?

Nonsense. It was 4-2 ~Bruno at the time of stoppage and could easily have been scored 3-3 or 4-2 to Lewis....it was basically the same as the VITLAY fight years later. Lewis was struggling with the battle, but he won the war.

 

his wins against Rudduck were good. Bruno had no Chin and was mentally fragile and had **** stamina. Other than that Tyson did not do **** after Douglas beat his ass.

 

So he was basically just like WALDO then?

Saying Bruno had no chin just exposes your ignorance, for the millionth time on this forum, nice job.

 

Bruno seemed somewhat easy to hurt but not easy to put down. This, coupled with his pride, hurt him in fights when he would've been better off taking a knee.

The guys who stopped Bruno were all had good to great power, so his punch resistance often gets unfairly criticized.

 

I fail to see how two wins over a close-to-prime Ruddock aren't big.

 

ruddock was superb before first tyson fight but he said himself that tyson broke a part of him and he was never the same after the first fight

 

Tyson was shot when he beat Ruddock and Ruddock was pretty muched phucked after those 2 fights

Going 19 rounds with Mike Tyson pounding the **** out of you isnt exactly beneficial for your health.

 

Tyson wasnt physically shot until after the Lewis fight. Tyson wasnt at his best but he was far from shot. Take into consideration Tysons mental state in 90 as well. He would have never been that determined after 95 to take the kind of punishment he did to finish the Ruddock fights.

 

agreed.

 

I think Lewis just finished off whatever was left of him able to take heavy punishment. Mentally, he was long gone.

He certainly was crap overall for a long time. Even against Botha, remember what Ferdie Pacheco saw/noted:

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Note: it's that big punch that keeps luring the common people back into thinking he was "back."

Pacheco was also saying Tyson wasn't quite the same even before he went to prison when he was fighting Ruddock II...which I think is obvious if you watch that fight and compare him from Berbick to Spinks.

Tyson himself thought he was burning out by the time he fought Ruddock the second time. Foreman also gave his opinion about that second fight and basically said Tyson was gone as a fighter.

Add 3 years in prison...not a formula for success