Would tyson have had a melt down against 74 ali?

No he wasn't. He would KO Frazier.

 

I strongly suspected he must have had some nickname for Tyson. How about Chuvalo? What did he call him?

 

Yes I a absoluey100% sure.

Ali was referring to the way Louis slowly shuffled along after his opponents with a dour expression on his face. Finally when both appeared together in an interview Ali made the comparison. That's when Louis told him to stop. If I find that interview on youtube I will post it.

BTW
One thing to keep in mind is that Louis and Ali had two entirely different ways of viewing things. Louis served gladly in the army. Ali refused. Ali called him an Uncle Tom actually which is worse than being humorously called a Mummy.

 

I was unaware that he called Foreman the Mummy as well. It's understandable since Foreman did resemble Louis in his slow, methodical, constantly-moving-forward footwork.

 

Now that's the most degrading of them all since it includes the "woman" part.

 

Say that to Tyson and he would have threatened to eat Ali's children and bit his nose during a rope-a-dope..

 

Calling Joe an Uncle Tom in the buildup to the first fight in 1971 was a lot more hurtful to Frazier and his family and that was definitely not tongue in cheek.

 

Joe offered to help Ali when Ali was down and trying to come back after being banned from boxing for approx. three years. So Joe could never understand why Ali came at him in that manner after he had offered that assistance.

 

Was Bonavena that way with every opponent?