where does the peak tyson fit in

[ricecrispi]

1.Muhammad Ali 2.George Foreman 3.Mike Tyson 4.Sonny Liston 5.Larry Holmes 6.Joe Louis 7.Joe Frazier

Mike Tyson #3. above Holmes and Frazier, and Joe Louis? Could you explain why Tyson is number three when he shouldn't be top 10.

[tommyhearns804]

Tell me about it Tyson never beat anybody who you would rank as a top 50 all time great.So why is he considered a great.

[Skydog]

Tyson actually did beat Larry Holmes, who is arguably top 5, but Holmes was nearly 10 years after his prime then.

[Skydog]

The joke is Louis shouldn't even be in the top 10.Beating up on complete bums and ducking black guys until late in your career doesn't make you great.Every black man Louis fought kicked the shyt out of his azz.Louis has one of the worse chins of any man to be called heavyweight champion.Tyson is superior to Louis in every way and yet Tyson is nothing special.Getting your azz knocked out 5 times by average fighters for the most part does not make you great.

How is Tyson superior to Louis when Tyson didn't fight anyone good either. Is Walcott not good? How about Schmeling? At least a much older Louis had the guts to get in the ring with a young Marciano.

Tyson only had chin and power on Louis (and power wasn't by much). Louis is arguably the most accurate and precise puncher ever. His heart is five times to that of Tyson's, and he had much better stamina. Sure Louis dominated in a time where no one was really good, but he still dominated and destroyed almost every fighter put in front of him. That's primarly your job in boxing, fight and beat everything put in front of you.

[Skydog]

Louis's jab would break Tyson's rhythm, and if Tyson got past the jab then Louis would meet him with the uppercuts.

[Troy Fine]

that guy must be totally retarted to say loius didnt fight good fighters and that he ducked black guys? you got remember back then boxing wasnt a black sport it was dominated by italians,jews,and irish

[leoz12]

tyson doesnt fit anywhere in my opinion so he knocked out a few bums.
like i said he is a HAS BEEN. a heartless boxer. in other words a joke.
and if he was so great he could still stay on top past his prime.

[Muchmoore]

By you calling him heartless its clear that you havent seen the Lewis fight, the Douglas fight, or the first Holyfield fight, in which he rose from a knockdown to fight for severel more rounds.

[Skydog]

WOW, you wanna talk heart?? Louis got dropped twice in one round after his prime from Walcott and came back and won the fight. Foreman got knocked down twice by Lyle and came back and knocked him out. Ali got the **** knocked out of him by Frazier and shot him in no less than 4 seconds. Frazier was getting hit by arguably the most powerful punches ever in boxing from Foreman, but he shot up everytime and was probably willing to die that night before he lost. Ali has been knocked down a few other times and has come back and won the fight. Compared to these, getting up and just getting knocked out later is nothing.

Tyson got PUSHED down by a fighter he could have easily have beaten, but he quit. In the Lewis fight, he doesn't even get knocked down, he just bends his knees down low to avoid further punishment. You wanna talk heart, ****ing Tyson tried to end a fight by biting the **** out off Holyfield's ear to end the fight before he got the **** knocked out of him.

[kmac]

Because Tyson is a great puncher with 2 heavy hands and a decent chin, he could have beaten anyone if he landed the right punch. At the same time so could Dempsey, Marciano, Foreman. I say Tyson is a top ten fighter but no where near the top.

He was the third best fighter in his era, behind Lewis and Holyfield