Was Carl the truth Williams Mike Tysons best win?

Collapse
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • automaton89
    Interim Champion
    Gold Champion - 500-1,000 posts
    • Feb 2024
    • 517
    • 59
    • 1
    • 0

    #1

    Was Carl the truth Williams Mike Tysons best win?

    I don't count spinks who didn't want to fight at all. And Holmes was retired for 2 years, with a meager 2 or 3 month training camp (he was promised longer but they shortened the date).

    Biggs was an outstanding amateur but never beat a great fighter as a pro. Bruno..,,,, the press considered that a mismatch since Bruno had no chin

    So with all that said, was Carl the truth Williams mikes best win, at the time he fought him?
    Last edited by automaton89; 04-28-2024, 04:10 PM.
  • _Rexy_
    Undisputed Champion
    Franchise Champion - 20,000+ posts
    • Jan 2018
    • 27934
    • 6,140
    • 3,585
    • 358,040

    #2
    Tony Tucker was 34-0 6'5 world champion who had just stopped Buster Douglas.

    Comment

    • automaton89
      Interim Champion
      Gold Champion - 500-1,000 posts
      • Feb 2024
      • 517
      • 59
      • 1
      • 0

      #3
      Originally posted by _Rexy_
      Tony Tucker was 34-0 6'5 world champion who had just stopped Buster Douglas.
      He broke his dominant hand in the first round.

      Comment

      • _Rexy_
        Undisputed Champion
        Franchise Champion - 20,000+ posts
        • Jan 2018
        • 27934
        • 6,140
        • 3,585
        • 358,040

        #4
        Originally posted by automaton89

        He broke his dominant hand in the first round.
        Williams never made it OUT of the first round.

        Comment

        • automaton89
          Interim Champion
          Gold Champion - 500-1,000 posts
          • Feb 2024
          • 517
          • 59
          • 1
          • 0

          #5
          Originally posted by _Rexy_

          Williams never made it OUT of the first round.
          Premature, bs stoppage. Tucker was hurt in his hand before the match and then broke it almost instantly. I don't know if that's mikes best win in actuality

          Comment

          • thebrownbomber_
            Interim Champion
            Gold Champion - 500-1,000 posts
            • Oct 2020
            • 591
            • 86
            • 40
            • 6,696

            #6
            Lennox fanboys are something else when it comes to historical revisionism.

            From hyping up bums like Mercer who were journeymen skills wise and lost to journeymen, to then discrediting other ATG wins due to intimidation, the amount of revisionist history a lennox fanboy possesses is simply mind boggling.

            Just because Spinks didn’t want to fight isnt Tysons fault. He was a legit top 5 ATG LHW and the man who dethroned larry holmes. If Spinks was a natural HW, the same 90 second knockout would’ve happened. Tyson is a stylistic nightmare for someone like spinks who doesn’t rely on range like Buster did or Physical Strength like Holyfield did.

            Comment

            • automaton89
              Interim Champion
              Gold Champion - 500-1,000 posts
              • Feb 2024
              • 517
              • 59
              • 1
              • 0

              #7
              Originally posted by thebrownbomber_
              Lennox fanboys are something else when it comes to historical revisionism.

              From hyping up bums like Mercer who were journeymen skills wise and lost to journeymen, to then discrediting other ATG wins due to intimidation, the amount of revisionist history a lennox fanboy possesses is simply mind boggling.

              Just because Spinks didn’t want to fight isnt Tysons fault. He was a legit top 5 ATG LHW and the man who dethroned larry holmes. If Spinks was a natural HW, the same 90 second knockout would’ve happened. Tyson is a stylistic nightmare for someone like spinks who doesn’t rely on range like Buster did or Physical Strength like Holyfield did.
              Its not Tysons fault but it doesn't count if spinks fake being injured from a body shot. Tyson did not dethrone Holmes. Holmes was fat and retired and took a money grab

              Comment

              • sleazyfellow
                Undisputed Champion
                Platinum Champion - 1,000-5,000 posts
                • Feb 2006
                • 2676
                • 572
                • 212
                • 11,978

                #8
                Gotta say Holmes, he went on after that loss to have a pretty successful comeback and was not stopped again.

                Comment

                • automaton89
                  Interim Champion
                  Gold Champion - 500-1,000 posts
                  • Feb 2024
                  • 517
                  • 59
                  • 1
                  • 0

                  #9
                  Originally posted by sleazyfellow
                  Gotta say Holmes, he went on after that loss to have a pretty successful comeback and was not stopped again.
                  That was when he had full time to train.... He had only got two months from Don King after a 2 year retirement to fight Tyson

                  Comment

                  • QueensburyRules
                    Undisputed Champion
                    Franchise Champion - 20,000+ posts
                    • May 2018
                    • 21793
                    • 2,347
                    • 17
                    • 187,708

                    #10
                    Originally posted by automaton89

                    That was when he had full time to train.... He had only got two months from Don King after a 2 year retirement to fight Tyson
                    - - How old was U then, an infant?

                    Tubsy built a full boxing gym on his substantial property and had been in training for a year for this fight while Mike was unifying titles. Tubsy got mugged, crucified really and still insanely jealous of Mike and Big George and all the Big $$$ they was making.

                    Comment

                    Working...
                    TOP