Tyson: WOW, look at the speed difference...amatuers.

Really didn't want to dedicate a thread to this but I thought it was funny in an awesome way.

Obviously his speed is known but compared to his opponent in this particular fight...

You can just watch the whole thing but if you don't care to...You can start at

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so you don't miss it but pay attention to the split-screen where Tyson is just warming up for the cameras with his opponent doing the same


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Nmoy1mrYY&feature=related[/ame]

Before 1:39, starting at 1:10 is Tyson's famous somewhat mental break-down as an amateur before a fight

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[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7Nk4bJYa4&hd=1[/ame]



They actually fought again later on when Tyson was a bit older

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlp4m8gzIvk[/ame]

 

Article about Buster Mathis transition when managed by D'Amato

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1079455/index.htm

Tidbits:

"Before losing weight, Mathis had been a retreating counterpuncher. As he trimmed down, he became more aggressive.

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found Mathis had a savage left hook and, with schooling, a right hand that could do damage. He started teaching Mathis how to throw combination punches, which

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defines as "a series of blows to predetermined areas," and had him throwing punches at a contraption called "Willie," so named because D'Amato devised it to help train Torres before he took the light-heavyweight title away from Willie Pastrano.


Willie is five mattresses strapped onto a frame. The front mattress has an outline sketch of a man on it, and various parts of the outline are numbered as targets. No. 1 is a left hook to the jaw, 2 a right hook to the jaw, 3 a left uppercut, 4 a right uppercut, 5 a left hook to the body and 6 a right hook to the left kidney. Mathis punches each target as D'Amato's voice, on a tape recorder, calls out numbers. D'Amato himself stands to the side, arms folded, carefully watching and occasionally admonishing Mathis to get down lower, move back faster or growl more fiercely.

When Mathis began punching Willie, D'Amato had him throw only one punch every five seconds. Then he gradually speeded up the process, and Mathis can now deliver a five-punch combination in as little as three-fifths of a second. " Frazier couldn't do this," D'Amato says. "He wouldn't have the power, speed, coordination or stamina. Clay couldn't do it either. You have to have done this over a period of months and months."
Every day Mathis goes at least five rounds against Willie. Once, when he complained, D'Amato kept him at it extra hard, and when Mathis was through he had thrown, by D'Amato's count, 12,000 punches. D'Amato says, "I told him Clay had thrown only 1,760 punches in the Chuvalo fight and not to complain again." To which Mathis adds, "When I walk into the ring, I figure I gotta win. No one trains as hard as me, runs as hard as me or has had Cus on his back."

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The full article is very interesting on how D'Amato did things.


Also Note: Tyson actually got away from this after he left Rooney. It was then noted how his speed declined a bit amongst other things.
And emotionally, which the aritle touches on, if you relate it to Tyson, it gives you some indication what he was now missing.


Training: Shadow boxing was also taken very seriously with Tyson. It served a key purpose like everything else.