Tyson V Tucker

Average performance from Tyson. Tucker's style gave him problems for a few rounds, and even the rounds Tyson dominated he hardly looked great.

 

I haven't viewed Tyson v. Tucker since it originally aired on HBO, but I remember being bored.

 

I'd say for purists and Tyson historians (Tyson-orians perhaps?) it's really not that bad of a fight. John Ruiz puts you to sleep. At least Tucker stays in the fight. He also gave Lennox some good shots (Tucker that is), but The Lion was too young to be put out by that old dog.

 

I thought it was a solid performance. Tucker is a ***** to fight and very durable. Tyson put on a good workman like performance as Merchant put it, winning a 9-3 decision on my card.

 

Tucker had a badly injured right hand in this fight... an injury that initially occurred during training. Tucker's dad/manager (Bob 'Lazy eye' Tucker) hid the injury because he didn't want the fight postponed. In watching this fight (i've seen it probably five or six times in the last few months) i realized that after the first couple of rounds Tucker seemed to use the right hand sparingly and he never threw hard punches with it... just pitter-patter jabs. I think Mike fought pretty poorly against an injured Tucker. This was not one of Mike 's premier showings.

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I think a healthy Tucker would have put up a much better fight...

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I thought the same. I seem to very vaguely remember giving Tucker the 1st, 3rd and 10th rounds the last time I saw it but it was a clear if unspectacular win for Tyson. Tucker was ring-savvy and big enough to nullify some of what Mike was trying to do, broke up his rhythm a lot, so Mike did the bulk of his scoring in breakout flurries.

It's not too bad a fight actually, no classic but far from a Tyson-Bonecrusher kinda fight.

Wasn't it Bob Tucker that was secretly stealing great chunks of Tony's purse for himself?

 

If Tony had not been injured, how do you think he would've fared against Mike?

 

Well, he didn't exactly set the division alight against anyone else.

 

I do think his win over an in form Douglas was ok tho. Douglas was fighting well that night before running out of puff/giving up the ghost, whatever it was.

 

I saw some of his fight with James Broad for the USBA title back in '86, he looked somewhat decent in that one.Beyond that, not too much.

 

Tyson did a good job. It was a tricky fight for him, but he won just about every round. Tyson got some good shots in and even out jabbed/outboxed tucker at some points.

 

Potentially, he would have opened up more and in return would have or could taken more blows.

 

Who knows. Most fighters have to deal with some kind of injury. Rarely do fighters go into a fight 100 percent healthy.

 

I think it would have been a much more competitive fight. Tucker was a good fighter... certainly one of the best(if not the best) opponent Tyson fought during his reign.