Would Ali have intimidated Mike Tyson?

As mentioned above, Bonavena did get under Alis skin.

 

Obviously you cant understand spanish. Bonavena was much smarter than tyson using his language

 

interesting.

give us an example of what Tyson would say.

 

Tyson does have a high emotional IQ. He's no slouch in the art of intimidation. He was a master of emotional sabotage. Everything from his style, his power, his stare, made him one of the most feared boxers of all time.

However, Ali is a wildcard. He's the joker in the deck. He supercedes the ordinary scale of things, especially when it comes to fight psychology. He was ever present, and would adapt perfectly to any situation. Tyson couldn't handle the same scrutiny that Ali could brush off with a breeze. Ali was just the stronger mind, and the stronger heart.

Ali's prefight tricks would be nothing compared to the mental games he would play in the ring.

 

I wonder what name Ali would give Tyson.

I think ali actually believed he was sent by God. No better mind trick than having the power of Jesse freaking Custer with you.

For Tyson and for many in his generation faith was about recuperation, just a means to an end..

 

The Bull

 

Mike Tyson would've called Muhammad Ali a "f@ggot" ... he would've told Ali he was going to pimp him out like a wh0re...

Tyson would've told him he fvcked uglier girls than Ali ... he would've made fun of Muhammad Ali's middle-class background and for never having gone to prison.

He'd have said Ali was whiter than Angelo Dundee ... then Tyson would've brought in his friend Tupac to rhyme about how Ali knows nothing about the ghetto or the black man's struggle ...

Tyson would say if he'd have tackled Ali like Joe Frazier did, he would've taken a chunk out of his leg and then p1ssed all over him like a dog ...

Ali would be trying to come up with the hundredth variation on his "Liston starts to retreat" poem ... and Tyson would walk up to Ali's wife Veronica and stick his thumb up her @ss and then tell Ali to "do something about it f#ggot."

Shlt like that.

Ali's "black" talk wouldn't have worked in Tyson's world or with the guys Tyson hung out with. Ali didn't have a clue about their life.

 

I seem to recall where towards the end of the documentary "Champions Forever," that Ali referred to Tyson as "Kong," as in "King Kong." Another variation to calling Joe Frazier "Gorilla."

 

It's interesting how Tyson could never have been Tyson in the 60's.

 

double post oops!

 

Ali would have been more intimidated by Tyson than vice versa.

 

Because he was more intimidated against the scarier Liston and Foreman right?

 

Bonavena angered Ali calling him "Clay" too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-5DwH85N8E

 

You don't think Ali was intimidated by Liston?

And "scarier" is a matter of opinion.

Either way, I don't see anything about Ali that would have intimidated Tyson.

 

Ali would have intimidated Tyson more by what he did in the ring that anything he might have said. If he avoided major damage & was winning rounds, I think that would have bothered Tyson. If he made him look foolish that would've been a definite plus. Ali embarrassed Foreman a lot.