Will Tysons record of youngest Champ ever be beaten?

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Gonna live your dreams through your boy? That's my plan anyway

 

Especially considering what Tyson did to Spinks, I don't think that argument holds too much water.

Anyway, Tyson at the time, was very much was seen as the man and was most certainly not seen in anyway to what Haye is seen now - who's HW title is more like Herbie Hide's WBO time, to that of Mike Tyson.

 

What Tyson did to Spinks doesn't matter, that still doesn't retrospectively make him the champ ~2 years earlier.

 

Tyson still won a version of the title at just 20 years of age. To be honest I don't think the record will be beaten in my life time. Of course, records are there to be broken, and invariably they always are. However, this is one record I see standing for many, many more years yet.

 

Maybe, just depends on if anybody is as good as young as he was again

if somebody comes through and is as good and as devestating as tyson then the promoter is going to know hes going to make tons of money if they make him an early young champion so theyll do it

im sure there must be other recent examples through the weightclasses of boxers who were outstanding from their debut getting big fights when they were still young

 

I see Tysons record falling before Benitez's one will

 

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17 wasn't he?

That will never be beaten.

I doubt.

 

Tyson was the man at HW and everyone knew it, he also more than later proved it, flattening Spinks, simple as that.

It's unfair, I think, to use pedantry, technicality, politics, Don King shenanigans and the ABC roundabout to try and defame his achievements.

If we want to go down that route, no modern boxers have ever be called champ because no one can ever agree even what unified means for a start.

I mean, Tyson was never the real champ because he never fought Francesco Damiani for the WBO.

He was the unified WBC, WBA and IBF title holder, before the age Floyd won, personally I give him a break.

 

Yeah amazing stuff, shame what has happened to him though

 

GazOC, you are a Tyson hater. :blurp

You'll be calling him a bum next and an exposed fraud.

 

Great point, that Benitez record will never fall, 17 years of age and a World Champion, that stat is unbelievable, and what a technician he was ..
In these days of fractured titles the lineal argument isnt really applicable. Its not Tysons fault he operated in his era and its not Pattersons fault he operated in his. Whether you have Tyson or Patterson as the youngest champ, this acheivement will last for a hell of a long time, and i cant see it being broken, simply because boxing and the society surrounding boxing has changed, especially in America .... The amatuer boxing scene in America is as weak as its ever been, talent just isnt coming through. The reason for this, is that Black Athletes simply have more choices than they used to have, more safer avenues are open to them and Boxing isnt the 'only option' any more like it used to be .... People say the Heavyweight division is simply in a 'cycle', i disagree, its quite clear that it is in terminal decline in the states .. The last American guy that came through of any quality was Bowe, over 20 years ago .. Not one guy with any old-school class has come through since, and the only place a guy could challenge for a Heavyweight title from 18-21 would be America .. No Russian, Ukranian or British guy would ever challenge for the title at that age ..

Tyson/Patterson and Benitez's records will probably last forever because Boxing as a sport will never re-capture its glory days ....

 

It wasn't that Tyson wasn't unified champ that was the sticking point for me (or Lee Mc I'd guess) it was that Tyson hadn't beaten the active lineal champ around at that time (not Tysons fault of course). The fact he did beat him later doesn't "backdate" Tysons claim to the lineal championship.

Liston could have beaten Paterson years before he did but we don't date his reign early on the strenght of that.

 

Well he WAS lucky against Big Frank in that first fight....