What heavyweight has the best chance at beating Mike Tyson?

Foreman was slow and not very skilled, he's by no means the biggest threat. And don't make the mistake of adding up all the qualities of 70s Foreman and of 90s Foreman.
Vitali and Fury pose much bigger problems than Foreman ever could.

 

I think Foreman, Ali, Holyfield, Liston and Lewis are huge problems for him. I think i'd put Foreman at the top.

 

This, but I throw both Joe Louis and the Ali-beating Holmes in there.

 

They'd both be in with a show.

 

Foreman and Liston were almost designed to beat a fighter of Tyson's
built , skill set and mentality. Especially Foreman.
Tyson was a smaller exceptionally skilled ,exceptionally fast fighter,
who's offensive prowess is only second to one, (J.Louis) Tyson
was better defensively than Louis.
But, his weaknesses , not exceptionally strong and
could be muscled off his spots in the ring, making him
constantly having to reset his offense , mentally fragile
and easy to frustrate.
Would eventually lead to his demise against Foreman and
Liston.
Ali beats him too but he'd have a harder time. Frazier could
too but he'd need to get past the 1st five rds .
Holmes and Lewis maybe, maybe not, both were susceptible
to right hands ,and were not very physical, fighting in a more
traditional style that Tyson could take advantage of.

 

After watching FOTC for the 20th time, its unreal how many hooks Ali ate. I really have doubts he could withstand that with Tyson. On the flip side, I'm not sure Tyson could take that beating Frazier absorbed. I still say bad match up for Ali. Because its only going to take a few bad punches from Tyson to end it.

There's no question that Foreman is the worst match up for Tyson. It would look like Frazier vs Foreman without all the heart Frazier displayed getting up 6 times.

 

Oh man. This, this hasn't been done. Jeez, what ever shall I and all the fine posters here say?

Do you guys actually enjoy reposting the same stuff over and over and over....

 

FOTC Frazier would have gotten knocked down a couple of times early on by Mike in a thrilling war, but stormed back to completely astonish Mike with his resiliency. Mike is overwhelmed and knocked out in 8.

 

I'm solidly in the camp that Ali was short of a gallop going into FOTC. I think he got a bit better.

Regardless the best version was the one going into exile. I'd take that version and i'd also back the late 72 model. Dangerous fights but Ali, for mine, would prevail. There's no stronger fighter mentally than Ali.

 

We already settled this question in another thread, where everyone agreed that Tyson was unbeatable.

 

But hit hard BUT not very hard, he was also capable of beating Foreman because Boneman Smith could.

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J-man post complete

 

Forum poster in the year 2200: "Yes, the CyborgTech championoid in the half-ton weight class is the hardest puncher around today. But I what I really want to know is whether the hardest puncher of all time is Shavers or Foreman."

 

Djanders: "****ing me that's who..."

 

Being that Tyson never beat the best around ( Lewis and Holyfield ) was upset by Douglas who really was just a good contender in the day, nothing more, and never had a match with Witherspoon arguably the 3rd best in the 80's and didn't fight Foreman, Morrer, Ibeabcuhi, Morrison, Mercer, McCall, Rahman, or Klitschko in the 90's we are left with what he did in the mid to late 80's as his best wins. They are Thomas, Spinks, Bruno, and Tubbs. Not a bad list of accomplishments, but relative to where some people think he as an all time great, its rather thin. So lots of guys better than who he beat that could beat him.

I used to rate Tyson much higher in the 1980's. I've learned a few things since.