Why Tyson is overrated....

[jack_the_rippuh]

Tyson would have killed the division at the time Frazier and Ali were at large....Speaking of Frazier remember when Tyson kicked his son's ass....HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!

[jabsRstiff]

Mike Tyson is a frontrunner.

He's never come from behind to win a fight. He looks like he wants to cry when someone takes his punch & slaps him back.

He looked for a way to quit when a former crusierweight (Holyfield) actually took the frontrunner's punches & hit him back.


Great fighters RISE up through adversity. Mike has done nothing but SHRINK in the face of it...Every time out.

[Great]

Who do you think would've beaten Ali if not Lewis or Tyson?

Joe Louis ( the best boxer - puncher ever )
also Dempsey would give Ali an unholy beating

You saw fight Dempsey-Tunney and Louis-Conn?

[dempseyfire]

Mike Tyson is a frontrunner.

He's never come from behind to win a fight. He looks like he wants to cry when someone takes his punch & slaps him back.

He looked for a way to quit when a former crusierweight (Holyfield) actually took the frontrunner's punches & hit him back.


Great fighters RISE up through adversity. Mike has done nothing but SHRINK in the face of it...Every time out.

Exaclty. Frazier had twice the stamina and heart of Tyson. Mike crumbled when his gameplan wasn't working, Frazier kept going at it till his opponnent fell. Tyson was a plodder-he didn't use half the movement and bobbing and weaving of Frazier. Tyson was a stalker who could hit hard and land the occasional combination,it was very easy to tie him up, and if you forced Tyson to work with a high-workrate and punchout he'd get very frustrated-
Frazier was a machine who just did not stop 'smoking'. He actually wanted his opponents to throw the kitchen sink at him b/c he got stronger as the fight progressed. Tyson was always more dangerous in the first 2 rounds and then he became a rather ordinary boxer with a good punch arsenal and power.

[J !]

tyson wasnt over rated, he may be now, but in his prime he would have taken ali.... ali struggled against frazier, who isnt half the fighter tyson was... IMO.... end of the day tyson could knock anyone out, even butterbean lol

he actually fought someone WHO LOST TO BUTTERBEAN Peter mcneely. what a shambles that was.

[tntkid]

I think the Mike Tyson that ko'd Michael Spinks would have beat any heavyweight in history. Watch some Tyson fights from 86 - 89 people and you will see yourself just how good he was.

[jabsRstiff]

I think the Mike Tyson that ko'd Michael Spinks would have beat any heavyweight in history. Watch some Tyson fights from 86 - 89 people and you will see yourself just how good he was.

yeah....The knee-bandaged, former lt. heavy champ.
The petrified one, who had one fight in two years before facing Tyson.

Whoo-hoo.

[syn0879]

Tyson in his prime was not overrated at all.

Now he is overrated because some people still view him as the boxer he was in the 80's and the media blows up everyone of his fights.

[tntkid]

yeah....The knee-bandaged, former lt. heavy champ.
The petrified one, who had one fight in two years before facing Tyson.

Whoo-hoo.

Spinks was also a former heavyweight champ who beat Larry Holmes twice. I think the knee was bandaged because Spinks didn't want any nasty canvas burns

[scap]

Tyson is certainly not the greatest of all time and absolutely postively not in the top 4 or 5 of all time. His legacy argument can be made after that though, he was the youngest man ever to win the heavyweight championship of the world, maybe I am niave and am forgetting that someone will always come along, but I don't believe we will ever see another heavyweight at Tyson's age win the title and put fear in the entire division the way he did, at least not in my lifetime and I'm 26.