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I talked to Johnny Bos about the Ribalta fight. He matched Tyson in that fight. Sometimes fighters fight out of their minds. He was concerned that night because that was the toughest Ribalta he had ever seen. He would have given any fighter a tough fight THAT NIGHT. Ribalta was very determined and tough and he felt Tyson took a lot from that fight because Tyson had to dig down to finish him off. When a fighter keeps getting up like Ribalta did it has an effect on his opponent mentally.
I think Tyson should have defeated Douglas but it was just the wrong style for Mike and of course Douglas was so underrated, but it is the Holmes fight that raises all sorts of questions, look at what Holmes did against Holyfield and of course Foreman wanted no part of Holmes but Tyson just blew him away. Holmes was rusty yes but to just blow him away like that he was the only man to ever do that and Holmes was a great even after that defeat.
To defeat Tyson you have to have power which Ribalta lacked, but Douglas had, he was able to punish Tyson and move when he had to.
Douglas would have not been able to control a sharper Tyson the way he did in Tokyo that night. Then we would have seen all the limitations of Douglas come out. Douglas was no big puncher either.
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Any other top class heavyweight would have come to grief fighting with George's style. Just goes to show how much RAW POWER than man had. Awesome !
Sigh, another Tyson hater. Tyson at or near his best would've ran through Lyle like a hot knife through butter. Still I'd favor Foreman at or near his best to beat Tyson. Foreman just tougher but a sharp Tyson would avoid many of those amateur hayemakers Foreman through. The problem would be that coming towards Foreman spelled doom plus Foreman would be bigger.
No denying that Lyle would have given Tyson a tougher fight than a lot in the late eighties did though.