Tyson Vs dempsey

Tyson

 

Tyson might floor Dempsey but Dempsey would bust his ass and win by KO.

 

hell yeah. :yep

dempsey goes out the ring and doesn't comeback in this one.

dempsey would probably draw the colour line and pull out the week before the fight anyway.

 

dempsey could bring tunney with him and they still wouldn't stand a chance. :yep

 

Sheeeeeeoooooooottttttt! Your boy Tyson couldn't whip his idol. Tunney might've beaten your boy Tyson in Tokyo.

 

Tunney has a better chance than Dempsey does, partly because Dempsey has between 0-0.01% chance of winning this fight, ESPECIALLY if we are talking a modern 12 round fight, modern sized gloves, modern refs, etc.

Tyson idolized Dempsey, and was for all intents and purposes a modern, larger, faster version of him. This fight wouldn't go past three, and I would lay my money on Tyson KO1. Honestly I don't see how Dempsey can hurt Tyson, and we know for sure that Tyson can hurt Dempsey :good

Keep in mind that Dempsey fought with gloves that were TINY by today's standards, whereas Tyson used gloves that were large by even the modern day standard...Dempsey may "look" stronger, but Tyson is without a doubt the harder puncher of the two. Add in superior defense, speed, etc. and you have a package that spells quick death for Dempsey.

The "Tyson never encountered a bob/weave fighter like Dempsey" or whatever "old-school trumps new-school" methodology that may seem appropriate is moot. Tyson studied Dempsey almost obsessively, so Dempsey isn't gonna suprise anyone with his 1920s style.

Keep in mind prime Tyson's record. If we include the Holyfield and Douglas fights (assuming prime Tyson lasted until 1996 or so, most believe that after he fired Rooney he started declining rapidly - see the first Bruno fight), then Tyson lost to....two men, both of which were/are considerably larger than him, with reach advantages. Nobody won a fight with prime Tyson by brawling it out with him, and Dempsey simply lacks the physical attributes AND the skillset to do anything than go for the KO. In the ring with Tyson, this means he dies - quickly.

Small chance of KO by Dempsey, but it pretty much has to happen early in the first round, cause once Tyson gets tearing at him he's gonna be fighting to stay on his feet. The key here is to keep in mind that Dempsey's power is, if anything, grossly exaggerated by those on this forum. Glove sizes, sizes of opponents, inaccurate film, etc. are all reasons that Dempsey may LOOK powerful, and indeed he was, but by modern standards he would not be so dangerous.

 

I simply can't favor a champion who only defended his title 6 times in 7 years, and was knocked out of the ring by a fighter like Luis Firpo over an incredible force like the one that Mike Tyson was in the late 1980's.

Tyson utilized a style that was carefully crafted and evolutionalized by fighters like Rocky marciano and Joe Frazier, wheras Dempsey was more of a crude slugger with a rather one dimensional set of skills.

He simply did not have the offensive nor defensive ability to overcome a very fast and powerful heavyweight like Tyson. Sure, Dempsey had an all time great first round KO record, but most of those wins came against fighters whos records were 0-0-0. Tyson's first round knockouts came against proven fighters in Michael Spinks, Carl Williams, Marvis Frazier and Alex Stewart. Hardly, a noteworthy comparison to fighters who had never been in a single pro fight.

 

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