Was Mike Tyson heavy handed?

Ah yes the age old forum question. Does X hit hard or really hard?

 

Tyson was a featherfist as is widely known

 

Frank Bruno Famously said that getting hit by Tyson was like [Getting hit by a feather duster)

 

Pretty sure I heard a rumour once that people were queueing up to fight Mike for the easy payday. Amir Khan famously may or may not have said "finally, a guy that I can fight with no worries that my chin explodes!"

 

Yes all those guys that went in with Tyson.
I remember one fella, met Tyson early on, after feeling Tysons ticklish shots actually falling all over the floor laughing.!!
The ref actually dqd him in the end!

 

Yes he was a heavy puncher even without speed.

look at the Botha ko. He had lost a lot of speed by then and yet still produced a one punch knockout.

 

“Duster” Douglas

 

Does a bear **** in the woods

 

No he wasn't heavy handed in the slightest and never was. His knockouts primarily came from speed and the ability to delivery them at the right time. He said so himself when asked a similar question about how he KO's people.

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He's just being modest there. His late career shows that he, in fact, was a hard hitter. With his speed gone and his technique heavily degraded, he could still score one-hit KD's and KO's. Look at the Botha KO. Look at what he did to Golota with one punch -- knockdown, broken orbital socket, slipped disc in the neck.

 

If this was true then Michael Dokes would have been a big ko puncher as well.

Tyson was a massive hitter and we saw this be Botha and Golota with his speed heavily in decline. What made him more dangerous in his prime was that he could throw 4-5 punches in the same time span that other heavies could throw 2-3 punches in. But the heavy hands were always there.

 

On a scale from 1-10 purely in terms of power, he may only be a 9 or 9.5. But 9 is huge. Most heavies are 6-7 s. You could say that guys like Tua were legit 10’s but Tyson hit almost as hard.

speed only matters so much. Otherwise the quick handed Ali would ko people like Tyson did. Or Dokes for that matter.