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Do you agree with this VIDEO? Muhammad Ali vs Mike Tyson Breakdown
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Too long and biased to watch the whole thing but I think some good points were made. Ali's movement and jabs would have given Tyson trouble. However, I think that a young, hungry Tyson would have a very good chance up slipping/ducking those punches and hooking the hell out of Ali. Get him against the ropes and it might be all over. As much as I think that Ali could dance around Tyson all night, I also don't see him withstanding Mike's power if he got inside.Comment
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Ali would hug Tyson all night(like he did vs Foreman) and then everybody would say what a "great" display of boxing he showed afterwards(like they did vs Foreman). If he didn't hug then Tyson does much worse to him than Frazier did in the first Ali-Frazier fight. Tyson is bigger and much faster and hard hitting than Frazier.Comment
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OK first of all, FUUk this guy. lol He's way to biased to break down anything. I stopped watching the video when he went strait to the Tyson Douglas fight, when Tyson was having an off night and not completely in shape. You can never use that fight as an example of how he would do against a good boxer, because he was fighting at 50% that night. Anyway, Tyson was awesome, that's why everyone likes to compare him to Ali. I think Tyson could have beaten Ali, but I would lean more toward Ali to win the fight. Ali had the chin and movement to beat Tyson, unless Tyson simply outpointed him with his pressure. And Tyson was a lot faster than guys like Foreman and Frazier. You can make good points for both sides, but I think Ali might have won. As far as the guys that think Ali could have knocked out Tyson in the late rounds, I disagree. Douglas had to pound an out of shape (not there) kind of Tyson just to KO him in the 10th. Ali would not have pounded on a prime Tyson all night. No way. Ali by UD, but Tyson had a hell of a chance. More than any other fighter in history or present.Comment
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This is correct. The history of that fight is that Mike was pretty much phoning it in at that point and here came a hungry Buster who was ready to give the fight of his life. Mike was simply not prepared mentally or physically. He expected to walk through this guy because that what life had become for him.Comment
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No that's not exactly true. Tyson was young, but not hungry, except for women. You don't seem to know what happened. Well, I do. Tyson had already given up his treiner, who'd brought him to the title, and was going on a rampage encouraged by Don King, he spent most of his time in Tokyo with Geisha girls, didn't train, and reported by journalists spent only the last week actually training. He was only a kid who didn't know what he was doing to himself. A focussed Tyson would have made it a different story, even without thr slow count. He literally fornicated himself out of the title.
Buster Douglas happened to be on fire that night, because his mother had died just before the fight and he vowed to win. In the 8th rd Tyson KD Douglas, and the ref counted to 14 .7 seconds to get to 8, it was dreadful. King actually took the Comission to court to get the decision overturned and made in to a KO for Tyson which it really had been. However, the Comission ruling stood. That's the REAL story of that fight.
I believe an in shape and motivated Tyson, the usual Tyson, would have beaten Ali. At that period no fighter who ever lived could be guaranteed to beat the prime Tyson.Last edited by edgarg; 04-01-2012, 01:42 AM.Comment
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Ali too strong mentally, game over for tysonComment
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