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canvas to win a fight. He was a good heavyweight champ, but not a great one.
He didn't dedicate himself the way a great champion does. And by the way, this
isn't a matter of saying Tyson couldn't, for example, beat Joe Frazier. But it
is saying that in context, Frazier was a great of his time and Tyson wasn't.
Just because styles make fights, maybe Tyson could win a match with Frazier.
But Frazier showed more over a longer period and in my opinion, won or was
competitive in more great fights. Tyson might have just enough left to get
another couple paydays, but wow, Danny Williams!|
|8/2/04 11:34:54 AM|Forest Ward|NYC||NYC.COM||||10|Whenever, I make a post on
this site I always leave my name, Forest Ward. I don't have the need to write
something under a different name.|
|8/2/04 11:50:59 AM|Joe Krause|Chicago||sadmspats@yahoo.com||||10|Tyson was a
great front-runner. The quality of his opposition was downright mediocre and it
never allowed us to see if Tyson was more than just an offensive machine. The
best fighter that Tyson ever faced when considering prime years etc? Tony
Tucker. Tucker gave Tyson some problems, but Tyson was too ferocious at that
time. Holmes wasn't even close to being prepared or in his prime, Spinks was
already retired in his own mind before the Tyson fight and was just getting one
more pay day. Look at the rest of the names. The first "real" test for Tyson
was his 18th fight against Jesse Ferguson. A nice fighter, hardly a world-
beater. A couple fights later he beats a past-prime James Tillis. Destroys a
fragile Marvis Frazier a coujple fights later. Title fights- Berbick, Smith,
Pinklon Thomas. All credible guys, no great fighters. Then Tucker and Biggs,
Holmes, Tubbs, Spinks. It isn't Tyson's fault that at his peak the fighters
that were around were just fair. However it will never allow us to know exactly
what his legacy was. At least Holmes had Norton, hell Cooney was even better
than all of Tyson's foes save Tucker. Then Bruno and Carl The Truth. He NEVER
fought a great fighter in his prime. He was always 2 clicks better than
everyone he was fighting. Mike Tyson doesn't beat Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson
doesn't beat George Foreman. Why? Because if the talents were close to equal
Tyson would never be my pick. At that top crust of heavyweight history it takes
a special thing to win fights against other great fighters. Tyson never showed
that skill, and anyone who thinks he has is dealing in just pure conjecture. |
|8/2/04 12:45:03 PM|Sabrina Quarry-
Porter|Florida||sabrinalporter@aol.com||||10|Tyson was one hell of a fighter in
his prime...his fights were always great to watch, over quick...but since he bit
Holyfield he doesn't deserve a boxing license..fighters aren't supposed to bite
people.I remember Uncle Jerry used to tell me he could whip Tyson with no
problem....Tyson is a LOSER!!!!|
|8/2/04 12:59:40 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Let's give Mike Tyson what he deserves
! He did beat a long list of decent fighters: Jesse Ferguson was good, James
Tillis was good, Mitch "Blood" Green was good, Berbick, Smith, Tucker, Tubbs...
Frank Bruno was a mountain of muscles and an excellent fighter with a
devastating punch. Spinks destroyed Cooney,"The Lie" Williams was good. Alex
Stewart was good, ask Holyfield and Foreman. When Mike fought Holmes, Holmes was
still a very good heavyweight. After the Tyson fight, he went the distance with
Holyfield and Mc Call and did beat Ray Mercer. He was only 38 when he fought
Tyson. Pretty young for modern standards. Donovan "Razor" Ruddock was very good
! The Danny Williams fight means nothing, Tyson was overweight and had fought
only 49 rounds against Clifford in the last twenty years ! It is not only a
matter of who Tyson did beat but HOW he did beat these guys. Berbick was
humiliated, Stewart was humiliated etc.In his prime he was probably a top
ten, even if surely below Ali', Foreman, Frazier, Louis, Spalla and Liston. |
|8/2/04 02:04:27 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|I used to
think Tyson was alltime top ten, but I don't anymore. And by the way, let's
stop with the violins about Tyson not having great fighters in his era to show
his stuff. If he wasn't convicted of rape (and I'm not saying he was guilty in