Mike Tyson says the Shoulder Roll would never work in heavyweight devision

[-Kev-]

Didn't Lennox Lewis used some variation of a shoulder roll on Tyson?

[12TRIBEsRiSe]

mike tyson is doin toooo much, james toney used it just fine along with others, thing is, Floyd isnt a heavyweight hes a WW... the best one alive

[MrRolltide91]

naw Tyson is wrong

[SalimShady1212]

Joshua proved it this weeknd

[joseph5620]

Makes little sense. Particularly since Holyfield rolled and countered him all night.

I was just watching that fight yesterday LOL.

I don't even understand Tyson's point here. Mayweather is not a heavyweight so I fail to see any relevance.

[SN!PER]

Depends on the heavyweight. Against Joshua, it fails.

[New England]

he's not far off base. it invites right hands that can put you to sleep, and makes defending them more difficult.

a HW can knock out into next week with a shot high on the head. hell, a massive man can put the fear of god in you even if you have your gloves up and block a punch.




tyson has biases, but it hink a lot of you forget that he knows boxing, and was a hell of a fighter in his prime. he was a student of the game whne he was comnign up, and he fought a slew of different styles at HW in the late 80's and through the 90's.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

It's successful with guys like floyd, toney, moore

It's not so good for guys like broner, Berto, johnson..


It's the caliber of fighter that ultimately decides if it's a successful tactic or not

[The Gambler1981]

It can work, but generally speaking if you mess it up once it could be curtains for the guy using it.

Floyd who is a total expert has gotten tagged plenty of times, it is not often and he has good reach which aides him but it still happens.

If you use a suspect version that is a recipe for disaster, and even developing it in the gym would be hard to do because it would likely be a very painful process.

[IMDAZED]

I was just watching that fight yesterday LOL.

I don't even understand Tyson's point here. Mayweather is not a heavyweight so I fail to see any relevance.

LOL I don't know. He and Floyd must have some type of beef.