Tyson V Tucker

True... most fighters go into fights with nagging injuries... but if an injury prevents you from utilizing one of your best weapons, (in Tucker's case any type of hard right hand) then you are seriously limited, especially if you are a right handed fighter. Most people on ESB seem to think that Tucker was a nobody who couldn't fight... but most of his unfulfilled potential seemed to be due to his woeful management (under his father) & the many people who were skimming off the top of his fights:
Check out the Tyson vs Tucker fight:
Tucker's purse for this fight was 1.9 million dollars(before taxes)....
But then the deductions begin........

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A drug habit that Tucker developed in the late 1980's didn't help things.
BTW: Dennis Rappaport wanted an additional $300,000 paid to him & attempted to cancel the fight when he didn't get his extra money. His bid to cancel the fight was denied....

 

Oddly, this has always been my favourite Tyson performance (he looked decent for a few rounds against Biggs too, but slowed down and started looking for the big bomb way too early for my liking). In the Tucker fight, he was up against a talented guy who fought back and who had the physical attributes (height, reach, chin) to give Tyson some real problems, but still put in a dominant performance.

Compared to the Spinks fight I'd rate this higher - not sure what, if anything, we can conclude from a 91 second demolition of a guy who is visibly terrified.

Tucker's hand injury was a big shame, as it pretty much ended the fight as a real competition - I think this one would have been pretty close otherwise.