85-89 tysons prime, after that he was washed up

[theironone]

i totally agree with that truth

[Mike Tyson Jr.]

Tyson was still pretty good in 90-96.

true. but he was only 75% as
good as he used to be. watch the
old tapes youll see the difference.
before 1989 he was sharp. head movement
bobbing and weaving and fast combos. he stopped
doing all that after 1989.

[theironone]

no doubt jr, but being 75% of your best is not washed up, his decline did start in 89 but he was still a good fighter til 2000 imo

[dino]

u guys are all idiots..nobody in boxing is in their damn prime at 18 appose to 28..lennox lewis holyfield would beat him at any point in his career...maybe tyson in the mid 90s could beat mcbribe and danny williams though

[Tarver is my dad]

u guys are all idiots..nobody in boxing is in their damn prime at 18 appose to 28..lennox lewis holyfield would beat him at any point in his career...maybe tyson in the mid 90s could beat mcbribe and danny williams though

tyson at 18 was a monster but still green. He was in his prime from 20-22.

[theironone]

exactly look at benitez, some fighters peak early and no-one said he was in his prime in 84, most are saying 86 - 88 or 89

[datneggajeep]

Tyson stopped fighting after 1990, Don King ruined everything!

[Slipx]

after 1989 kevin rooney stopped training him
and tyson skills started to waste. thats why
he suffered that first loss in 1990. anyone who
beat tyson after 1989 beat a washed up fighter.
between 1985 and 1989 tyson was the greatest and
no one in history can beat that technical machine.

Even if Rooney was still training Tyson, Buster would have won. It didn't have to do with Rooney- it had to do with Tyson's style, and secondly, his size. Tyson's people had said many times, that Tyson is a great puncher but there are certain styles that he is susceptible to. The main thing being iron will coupled with an iron jab, but also extremely susceptible to an open gloved plodding style fighter. A fighter like Tyson commits suicide fighting an open gloved fighter like, say, Foreman, who he DUCKED. Buster simply found the spot to put the jab and it worked all night- it wouldn't have mattered if Tyson was in better or worse shape, that's a MENTAL thing. He failed to MENTALLY ADAPT to the jab, the universal 'setup punch'. And every big fight he's had since then, he has FAILED, TIME AND TIME AGAIN, TO ADAPT TO THE JAB.

and please, "technical machine"?

use a word like "raging machine" for tyson, use words like "technical machine" for guys like nard

[KidBlackie]

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Idiots look to be smarter than you. When Tyson was starting peak, Holy was struggling with Qawi and Lewis was fighting 3 rounders in headgear and pillows. Tyson produced a journeyman's 13-6 record over the past 15 yrs, quite a come down from 37-0 with 33 KOs going into the Douglas bout during his first 5 yrs. Study up. There's much more to the story.

[realheavyhands]

tyson never had a prime