whos more exciting PRIME ali or PRIME tyson

[The Iron Man]

But theres a clear Winner

[Aaron K]

i'd say tyson. his head movement and offensive pressuring was fun to watch.

[Vadrigar.]

probably tyson.

[Thread Stealer]

Tyson by miles.

Ali was the better fighter IMO, but I didn't find him all that exciting in his prime, with the Williams fight being an exception.

I found him more entertaining to watch later in his career when he was more stationary. He sat down on his punches more.

[GymRat]

Watching Ali, you get to see him either: A.) Spend the whole fight running away from his opponent in the form of a dance, B.) Hold his opponent if they get within two feet of him, or C.) Stand there, clueless, getting the crap beat out of him (Patterson II for example). I have never been impressed by anything about Ali other than his ability to take a punch in his rope-a-dope years. Other than that, I find him to be nothing special and the most overrated boxer ever.

Tyson (in his prime) on his worst nights was having to chase after his opponents, slipping and weaving every punch thrown at him, and hammering a five punch combination out in under a second, and giving a true spectacle. It's not even close, in my opinion. Thanks for the thread, even though it's a bit elderly.

[Southpaw Stinger]

Tyson was more exciting as a fighter, but Ali was in the more exciting fights.

[CarlosG815]

Tyson is the most entertaining boxer to ever live. Tyson's main objective in boxing, and one of the thing Cus stressed, was you have to be an exciting champion.

Ali has never been very exciting to me.

[Jim Jeffries]

It looks like 15 people misunderstood the question.

For all the things you can criticize Tyson for, unexciting is not one of them.

[SBleeder]

Ali was more exciting by far. Tyson was the only swarming, pressure heavyweight in his era, so I can see why he was exciting to some, but I'll take great boxing over great swarming any day.

[geribeetus]

mike by a mile. ali ran and clowned too much before the layoff