Mike Tyson and Roy Jones don't like to fight (please read before reply)

[Vladimir303]

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one last attempt to sqeeze a few more replies out of it before the thread rides off into the sunset

[The Surgeon]

Nah man a young Hungry Tyson LOVED a tear up!!! U could tell sometimes he was almost disapointed the fights were over , Tyson recalls on his Wars with Razor Ruddock as some of his favourite memorys along with the first loss to Evander and even later when Golota bailed how ****in furious was tyson, the fight was just heating up!

[Vladimir303]

Nah man a young Hungry Tyson LOVED a tear up!!! U could tell sometimes he was almost disapointed the fights were over , when Golota bailed how ****in furious was tyson, the fight was just heating up!

Yea he was furious his punching bags quit on him so he can't beat them up any longer, not because they weren't willing to put up a fight.

Golota being the perfect example. Put up some resistance against Iron mike and you'll see those puppy dogg eye look on his face like against Lewis that he is getting ready to quit.


Tell me Tyson would've ever made it through a two-way war like Tua/Beabuchi or Brewster/Lyakovich etc,. With all his abilities, he was a bully who likes to pray on the weak, the old lady muggin example tells it all.

[The Surgeon]

Yea he was furious his punching bags quit on him so he can't beat them up any longer, not because they weren't willing to put up a fight.

Golota being the perfect example. Put up some resistance against Iron mike and you'll see those puppy dogg eye look on his face like against Lewis that he is getting ready to quit.


Tell me Tyson would've ever made it through a two-way war like Tua/Beabuchi or Brewster/Lyakovich etc,.

Well he did against Razor.

Golota was in the fight he had a good second round

[Chr0nic]

Mike Tyson loves beating up people but he doesn't like to fight, two entirely different things. As long as everything is going his way and he has his opponent already scared before he gets in the ring with or he is beating him up. But put up some resistance and Iron Mike cracks.

It goes all the way back to his days of muggin old ladies in the streets. He likes a helpless victim. There are averege Joe's in in bars out there who are mentally more tougher then Tyson is and who really love a fight. The type of guy who smashes a beer bottle over his own head and says common, "i'll fight all 5 of you guys", and he does, gets his ass kicked but still walks out of the bar with a smile on his face. You would think Tyson is that guy with all his crazy antics but he is not.


As far as Roy Jones, with him it's a bit different then Tyson. Roy doesn't even like to beat up people, he just likes making them look bad. Roy likes to think of himself as a performer, not a fighter. He loves to go out and showboat for the fans to show them how easy it is. Like a musician goes out on stage solo and performs in front of the audience. This is the one thing that has held him back from truely measuring up with the Leonard's and the Ali's. See these guys had the Fraziers and the Hearns's to make them even greater. Roy could've had this with Hopkins but he never capitalized on it. See in King Roy's world it doesn't matter who the other fighter is in the ring, it's all about him. In his mind, his name should be written BIG on the fight poster while the opponents name is written small in the background. He never understood the concept of having a big fight/big event like The Fight of the Century in 1970 with Ali/Frazier where both fighters are equally as big. He just rather be the BIG fighter of the century with all the sanctioning body belts, playing basketball in the morning and kicking some opponents ass in the afternoon to show all of us how easy it is to him.

Psychologically, Roy is a Rap Artist in his mind. If his father hadn't dragged him into the gym as a boy, he would've become what his three sons are now, a musician.

i knew a guy that cracked a bottle of his head and slit his head WIDE open... he was pretty much ****ed, never seen'em again actually, wonder if he's dead

[John Frusciante]

Good post. I don't understand how you are red? You're a good poster.

[GreatestIam]

This is a crock, both Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr Are boxers, Boxers: Are fighters. They may not have liked to street fight or bar brawl but who really does, (psychos), Theyd still beat ya ass on the street. **** tyson was beating up old ladys at 12 thats a good advesary for a lil boy! In the ring these dudes are two of the best period, they where fearless and whatever there method of savagier was they both won over 50 FIGHTS, FIght(s): Fighting, Brawling, Punching, Injuring... Whether Tyson itimidatated or ****ign scared you he still beat your ass, and Whether Roy Played ball went to the batting cage or was rapping he made you look bad! Both are great fighter and lov to fight!

[Vladimir303]

This is a crock, both Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr Are boxers, Boxers: Are fighters. They may not have liked to street fight or bar brawl but who really does, (psychos), Theyd still beat ya ass on the street. **** tyson was beating up old ladys at 12 thats a good advesary for a lil boy! In the ring these dudes are two of the best period, they where fearless and whatever there method of savagier was they both won over 50 FIGHTS, FIght(s): Fighting, Brawling, Punching, Injuring... Whether Tyson itimidatated or ****ign scared you he still beat your ass, and Whether Roy Played ball went to the batting cage or was rapping he made you look bad! Both are great fighter and lov to fight!

Calm down fish, no reason to get upset. No need to give us a loundry list of their accomplishments in the ring either, we all know they won 50 fights.

Nobody is questioning their greatness individually, they both are great in their own right. Still I can talk about the flaws in their game can I?

[elfag]

Some of this is accurate, some of it not. I kind of get what you are trying to say. Here is my take:

Tyson:
He never really had a fight he was loosing and digged down deep and pulled out a win. Not an Ali-Frazier type fight or a SRL-Hearns type fight. Ive noticed a lot of people rate him very high in head to head hypothetical matchups. For example Ive seen a lot of people pick him against Ali, Lennox, just about anybody. But with Ali, weve seen him dig deep and even past his prime pull out some amazing performances, thats why I wouldnt pick Tyson over Ali or Foreman or alot of other guys head to head.
He hasnt shown much heart, but he has shown a pretty decent chin. It always took a pretty lot to put him down.

RJJ:
In his prime, RJJ rarely lost any rounds. He was so above all his competition that he could literally toy with the likes of James Toney. I know what you are saying when you hint that he was afraid of inflicting too much harm on his opponents. Ive heard people say that he was effected mentally by the aftermath of the Benn-Mcclellan fight and after that lost some of his ferociousness in the ring as he didnt want to be responsible for a similar tragedy. Dont know if its true or not cause I wasnt following the sport at the time but thats what Ive always heard.

On another note I think the Hops-RJJ fight is misrepresented sometimes. Hops was competitive and won about 4 rounds, that is actually quite an accomplishment in itself when you consider how dominate RJJ was in the mid to late 90s. It was a competitive fight and not the beat down people make it out to be. Hops was never in trouble or anything but he couldnt deal with RJJs speed, RJJ was too hard to hit.

[Welter_Skelter]

This thread Topic reminds me a LOT of Floyd Mayweather Jr..


Just saying is all..