Mike Tyson's Top 5 wins

[craigus1990]

Spinks, Tucker, Holmes, Bruno

Wow, looking at it now there's not that many names on his resume that are even worth mentioning....maybe pinklon thomas

This thread is exactly why I only look at the consistency and best wins and draws (and the detail surrounding the fights) and very close losses/robberies on a fighters resume and not his clear cut losses when talking about his resume. This is the only way to fairly rank a fighters greatness. Their ability to lose to HOF and ATG fighters does not make them any greater at all, in fact it shows us they are not on a level above the competition and gives us an idea of styles/strategies they are vulnerable against. Getting beat up by two legends in Holyfield and Lewis does not count as a name on your resume because you got your butt whooped. In the Lewis fight, yeah sure Mike was past it but it still doesn't do anything to further his resume because the guy beating up on him was an ATG. Just because the guy beating you up is class, doesn't make you class. Let's look at Tyson... he got beat up by Holyfield (Mike not prime but not miles away from it either) and Buster Douglas (call it an off night but it still shows his vulnerabilities) and as mentioned before Lewis albeit not prime at all. So we turn to the wins, how is the consistency? Well it's pretty poor, most of the wins coming against B level fighters. So how are his best wins? They are so so. Spinks being the best and it is impressive because of the dominance but then who we got? And old Holmes? Big Frank? Berbick? Tucker? Thomas? I mean these are slim pickings here. Tysons resume is not great at all when we look at it with a critical eye. And this is no hate on Mike, I met him and he is a lovely man (at least nowadays anyway!) and he is great to watch... and maybe his skill does outweigh his resume but ranking just the resume alone and it is far from impressive.

[Exciterx30]

I think we can agree that Tyson's resume is somewhat lacking, but there is no denying that he was a force to be reckoned with, a heavyweight that captured the fans' imagination and he gave the sport of boxing a big boost back in the 80's.

I think his resume is good, although not stellar. He beat a bunch of good/very good fighters and showed the attributes of an ATG heavyweight even if the hw scene was not at its best at the time.

[Pugilist King]

biggs, spinks, holmes, tucker, tubbs, bruno, ruddock, smith, seldon

[SweetScience]

Spinks
Ruddock - Holyfield respected him
Tucker
Holmes
Bruno