If mike tyson stayed with rooney and retired with a record of 80 - 0 ?.

[catskills23]

If tyson stayed with rooney and retired with a record of 80 - 0 and was never in a close fight , if he fought holyfield and lewis at the peak of their careers and blitz them in 3 rounds in a very one sided fashion ,how highly would tyson be rated by boxing purists as a boxer , would he go down in history as the greatest heavyweight of all time or would he even eclipse ray robinson to become the pfp greatest boxer of all time , I think so tyson was that talented .

[AintGottaClue]

tyson is already top 5 top 3 even so of course he would be number 1 if he did that

[boxernyc]

If tyson stayed with rooney and retired with a record of 80 - 0 and was never in a close fight , if he fought holyfield and lewis at the peak of their careers and blitz them in 3 rounds in a very one sided fashion ,how highly would tyson be rated by boxing purists as a boxer , would he go down in history as the greatest heavyweight of all time or would he even eclipse ray robinson to become the pfp greatest boxer of all time , I think so tyson was that talented .

I'm not going to be the one to rip on you, but you will surely get people who will.

Talent wasn't Mike's problem either. It was character. He imploded. It was bound to happen too no matter who trained him. He couldn't handle success.

[jabsRstiff]

What if instead of being a human punching bag for most of the world class foes he fought.....Tex Cobb landed a KO punch within 30 seconds of every one of his fights ?
What if he knocked everyone out with one punch, for fifeteen years (****, all those easy fights= no wear & tear) straight, including Mike Tyson ?
Would he have been the greatest ever ?

[boxernyc]

What if instead of being a human punching bag for most of the world class foes he fought.....Tex Cobb landed a KO punch within 30 seconds of every one of his fights ?
What if he knocked everyone out with one punch, for fifeteen years (****, all those easy fights= no wear & tear) straight, including Mike Tyson ?
Would he have been the greatest ever ?

See. But this guy is French, so this one doesn't count.

[jabsRstiff]

See. But this guy is French, so this one doesn't count.

I'm not French, actually. Hope this gives me more credibilty.

[realtim]

Plz stop making excuses for tyson in my opinion Holyfield still beats him in their respective primes. No threads about it would have been a 1 round job because tyson is vunreable when under attack he's got a decent punch resistance but no heart he's never got up of the canvas and clawed his way back from defeat the things champions(great ones) do.

[bobbyjones]

the fact of the matter in my oppinion is that it would not have mattered when holyfield and Tyson fought because Holyfield was always jsut as tough and fluid and quick as when he fought Tyson. Indeed, I would go out on a limb and say that the Holyfield that beat Tyson was no longer in his prime at all.

[boxernyc]

I'm not French, actually. Hope this gives me more credibilty.

Alright, your credibility is restored. And now I can admit that this was pretty funny.

[bobbyjones]

Alright, your credibility is restored. And now I can admit that this was pretty funny.

haha