Tyson's biggest wins

When you consider everything, the best opposition Mike Tyson faced Michael Spinks, who was never a great Heavyweight and was damaged goods going into the bout. Mike Tyson is severely overrated based on the fashion he disposed of his opponents. That's just my opinion.

 

I tend to think Tyson gets overrated in the great scope of things, mostly as a result of the huge amount he was hyped by the media in the 80's. That said, thinking about his opponents, it reminds me how lousy the heavyweight division has become. A prime Razor Ruddock would absolutely destroy every single contender out there save maybe Klitschko and he is no HOF fighter by any measure of the imagination.

 

1. Holmes(though he was faded and came off 2 loses to cruiserweight Spinks, the way Holmes was totally annihilated made it an impressive win)
2. Though really a cruiserweight - Spinks was considered one of the best boxers in the world - and he was obliterated in 91 secs.
3. Tucker was prime, and a dangerous boxer, who had just beaten Tysons nemesis - Buster Douglas.

 

Bruno
Ruddock
Spinks
Tucker
GOlota
Berbick

 

I want whatever you are smoking.....:good

McBride mentioned in the same breath with Holyfield and Lewis????atsch


If Tyson had an once of wanting to continue fighting.....he'd have:tired

KB.......

 

The 'names' are irrelevent, Tyson was heavyweight champion at 20 and undisputed champion at 21 (I think) and he beat everyone there was to beat in the division in the 4 years he dominated. He then came back and won a version of the belt at age 30. Sure his later career doesn't look so good now but damn he was a force of nature in his early years and that's how I prefer to remember him. I'd take a Mike Tyson from 1987 against most other heavies head to head, exceptions being prime Ali, Foreman and Lewis. The guy was a great fighter before he lost to Douglas........everything that happened after that was just a damn shame.

 

Prime Bowe v. Tyson........would have been very interesting since Bowe was a better and bigger version of Buster Douglas......

 

1. Michael Spinks (31-0 at the time, linear champion, there were experts picking him to beat mike)
2. Larry Holmes (Holmes came back years after this beat Mercer and gave a prime Holyfield hell)
3. Tony Tucker (35-0 and had size, boxing skills and a good chin and mike won easy)
4. Razor Ruddock (feared puncher, no one including Holyfield wanted to fight Ruddock then)
5. Tyrell Biggs (15-0, I am sure people might think I am crazy but Biggs had all the tools here and he won the Gold)
6. Andrew Golota
7. Frank Bruno (big puncher, I agree would be a champ today as well)
8. Pinklon Thomas (29-1 still had a good jab and good chin and was motivated against Mike)
9. Carl Williams (master boxing, with long jab, beat Holmes, week chin though)
10. Tony Tubbs.

 

I loved Tyson as much as the next boxing fan when he first hit the scene in the 80s and basically saved the HW division from the doldrums it had been in since the late 70s, but the truth is is that his opponents, for the most part, were rather mediocre - and the great fighters he did beat were either past their prime (Holmes) or fighting above their best weight (Spinks).

Tyson came around at the right time. He is great not because the fighters he faced were anything special, but because the way he utterly destroyed them was. :nod

 

That, and Green's drug problems.

 

Technically tho, Tyson didn't beat Golota. :deal

But yea he did whoop his ass tho.

 

To me when you look at all the films. I think his high water mark was vs Larry Holmes. The Spinks fight was too short, and it was all down hill from then on, even though he had a few good wins afterwards, he was never the same.